Imagination Quotes

The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.
William Trevor

Thinking, Fiction, Indeed

I'd love to play more challenging roles, characters that would stretch my comfort zone and imagination.
Isabelle Fuhrman

Love, Play, Comfort

I don't think that people should wear dresses two sizes too small. I just think that sexiness is better left to the imagination. It's just more tasteful.
Rachel Zoe

Two, Small, Left

You know, working as an actor, I'm always working within my own imagination.
Charles Keating

Working, Actor, Within

What I love most about animation is, it's a team sport, and everything we do is about pure imagination.
Jeffrey Katzenberg

Love, Everything, Team

It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, using their talent, craft and imagination to provide us with some of the most innovative filmmaking out there today.
Michael Apted

Great, Today, Tell

I've got research, I have my own life experience I can apply, and I have my imagination.
Chris Cooper

Life, Experience, Research

Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.
Barbara Januszkiewicz

Arts, Visual, Expand

I always know exactly where my stories take place, which gives me something certain so I can use my imagination for the other stuff. I worry though, who wants to keep reading stories about Kalamazoo?
Bonnie Jo Campbell

Place, Keep, Worry

With the world as it now presents itself, there is something perverse, and probably dysfunctional, about a person who stays in the same house for 40 years. What about the expanding family syndrome, the school-lottery migration, the property portfolio neurosis? Have you no imagination?
Iain Sinclair

Family, Person, Same

When I was on my own in a hotel room in Romania, I had the imagination to keep myself occupied.
Rhona Mitra

Keep, Room, Hotel

We can live with lots of things, but we can't live without imagination, we can't live without hope.
Ariel Dorfman

Hope, Live, Lots

Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.
Janet Frame

Writing, Land, Shopping

I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean, first of all, it's a way to get information and find out what's going on in the world. But also, it helps your imagination.
Breckin Meyer

Important, Mean, Find

I think we're all a little afraid of the dark. If you lived in the country, as I did, there's nothing quite like country dark, which was really black. And as a child, your imagination runs wild.
Malcolm McDowell

Nothing, Black, Country

Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.
Jacques Maritain

Love, Poetry, Together

My imagination is my polestar; I steer by that.
Clive Barker

A child who has never fantasized about having other parents is seriously lacking in imagination.
Fred G. Gosman

Parents, Child, Seriously

You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination.
Larry McMurtry

Good, Simple, Country

Now, I'm a failed political consultant. But sometimes fiction has a way of capturing people's imagination in a way that non-fiction doesn't. Conservatives typically haven't written much fiction - specifically political thrillers - over the years to educate, inspire and mobilize people on issues of great import, but we ought to.
Joel C. Rosenberg

Great, Political, Sometimes

When you believe in what you're doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a difference.
Samuel Dash

Difference, Initiative

And, as I have said, it's made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren't external, how astonishing the mediums become! Victor Hugo said of his voices that they were like his own mental powers multiplied by five.
James Merrill

Made, Said, Become

When it came to political power, blacks need not apply. Add to this steaming stew the growing tensions over the Vietnam War and the movement for civil rights, and you had plenty of elements to fire the imagination of a novice journalist.
Andrea Mitchell

Power, War, Political

Further, for once, I like the idea that people who think I'm a constant voice for the furthering of the imagination have to see that interest in a more materialistic fashion.
Peter Sotos

Fashion, Once, Idea

It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income.
Leonard Orr

Debt, Takes, Create

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