Imagination Quotes - Page 30

I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me. I believed this because my sister Emily convinced me of it when I was a toddler. I think she'd seen Invasion of the Body Snatchers and her imagination ran away with her. There's a part of me that still believes it.

Funk is the unending cycle of life. It's the ultimate concept—wherever your imagination will take it.

A single glass of champagne imparts a feeling of exhilaration. The nerves are braced; the imagination is stirred, the wits become more nimble.

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

The greatest gift that you were ever given was the gift of your imagination.

The global warming scare has provided a field day for politicians and others who wish to control our lives. After all, only the imagination limits the kind of laws and restrictions that can be written in the name of saving the planet.

The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real. When it adheres to the unreal and intensifies what is unreal, while its first effect may be extraordinary, that effect is the maximum effect that it will ever have.

I believe this notion of separation of church and state was the figment of some infidel's imagination.

The difference between great and average is, mostly, having the imagination and zeal to re-create yourself daily.

Success is based on imagination plus ambition and the will to work.

You’re only limited by your lack of imagination and fear of appearing stupid.

The machine will grind you down, but the machine is not bigger than the imagination. Rome fell in a day. We know this.

Students are rewarded for memorization, not imagination or resourcefulness.

All that you can imagine you already know.

The absence of fossil evidence for intermediary stages between major transitions in organic design, indeed our inability, even in our imagination, to construct functional intermediates in many cases, has been a persistent and nagging problem for gradualist accounts of evolution.

It’s always more intriguing to imagine what’s happening, as opposed to seeing everything, because then you can use your imagination. I always wanted to be at a distance.

The function of the flashback is Freudian...You have to let them wander like the imagination or like a dream.

Consciousness means choicelessness, and to be choiceless is to be free from all desire, is to be free from all projection, is to be free from all imagination, is to be free from future.

If we can reach in wih the art and touch the imagination of the child, no matter who, we have affected that child.

Even the wildest dreams have to start somewhere. Allow yourself the time and space to let your mind wander and your imagination fly.

I come from a very wiry and long-lived race. Some of my ancestors have been centenarians, and one of them lived 129 years. I am determined to keep up the record and please myself with prospects of great promise. Then again, nature has given me a vivid imagination.

I cannot exaggerate the effect of this marvelous sight on my childish imagination. Day after day I asked myself what is electricity and found no answer. Eighty years have gone by since and I still ask the same question, unable to answer it.

The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination

Capability means imagination.

I dislike frontiers, political or intellectual, and I find that ignoring them is an essential catalyst for creative thought. Ideas should flow without hindrance in their natural course.