Imagination Quotes - Page 110

None of us can predict when the causes we support will capture the public imagination, and our once-lonely quests become popular crusades.

The limits of your imagination are not the boundaries of my universe.

If you're using your imagination, you tend to look into the past for ideas.

[Math is] not at all like science. There's no experiment I can do with test tubes and equipment and whatnot that will tell me the truth about a figment of my imagination. The only way to get at the truth about our imaginations is to use our imaginations.

Any sort of working drawings are simply diagrams. Architecture encourages your imagination to work that way.

I've always had a desire to write something and capture people's imagination like Peter Pan had captured mine.

Just so we're clear, I'm not zen by any stretch of the imagination. However, what I've read about change being the only constant is a concept that I can grab onto and have used quite a lot.

I myself was terrified during the Second World War. The war started when I was six, and I was so sure that we were going to be bombed and killed. My imagination is my biggest plus and my worst minus.

Sometimes when you've got too much money you lose your imagination.

Imagination without culture is crippled and moves slowly; but it can be pure imagination, and rich also, as folk-lore will tell the vainest.

The thing about California is that it's kind of a dream, and I started to feel like I was living in a dream. I still feel like that. Because of that I think I've been able to realize a lot of things that were just ideas. When I was living in New York City, it's such a rat race, it's so competitive and everything is so concrete and in your face all the time. If you're like, "I'm gonna be a writer!" Everybody's like, "Yeah, you and all the other assholes on the subway." There isn't a lot of space for the detached, free-floating movement of the imagination.

Imagination is imitative-the real innovation lies in criticism.

There were times when it appeared to Dorian Gray that the whole of history was merely the record of his own life, not as he had lived it in act and circumstand, but as his imagination had created it for him, as it had been in his brain and in his passions. He felt that he had known them all, those strange terrible figures that had passed across the stage of the world and made sin so marvellous, and evil so full of subtlety. It seemed to him that in some mysterious way their lives had been his own.

I am not married to any particular genre. I am more interested in projects that capture my imagination and move me in a way that I can spend a year of my life working on it.

Humans invent an imaginary lover and put that mask over the face of the body in their bed. That is the tragedy of language my friend. Those who know each other only through symbolic representations are forced to imagine each other. And because their imagination is imperfect, they are often wrong.

In many cases your imagination is much more effective than what can be shown. It primes you to know something is about to happen - the anticipation and anxiety is worse than what ends up happening.

There is a vision for my life that is greater than my imagination can hold.

Take the ideas that speak to you. Use your imagination. Create something wonderful.

Love is based on imagination.

To an imagination of any scope the most far reaching form of power is not money, it is the command of ideas

We find rhetorical situations everywhere in life, and only our imaginations can get us out of them.

No matter how much experience we may gather in life, we can never in life get the dimension of experience that the imagination gives us. Only the arts and sciences can do that, and of these, only literature gives us the whole sweep and range of human imagination as it sees itself

In the world of the imagination, anything goes that's imaginatively possible, but nothing really happens.

I can find no room in my cosmos for a deity save as a waste product of human weakness, the excrement of the imagination.

The truth is just an excuse for lack of imagination.