When I started the Imagination Library in my hometown, I never dreamed that one day we would be helping Scottish kids.
Most of the songs I write are just very directly from my life. I don’t have a big imagination. Whenever I tried to write from fantasy, it comes out sounding really fake.
To me, stretching the capabilities of my imagination is a crucial aspect of writing fiction; you could think of it as a mental form of athleticism.
The Christian faith is the most exciting drama that ever staggered the imagination of man – and the dogma is the drama.
It is literature which for me opened the mysterious and decisive doors of imagination and understanding. To see the way others see. To think the way others think. And above all, to feel.
It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.
Kashmir, the 86,000-square-mile region in India’s north, both is and isn’t the India of the popular imagination.
You know when you’re a child and your imagination is limitless and you really believe in magic? I thought I had super powers.
The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it’s only money… they don’t know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.
The World Series is played in my doubtless too-nostalgic imagination in some kind of autumn afternoon light, and seeing it exclusively in the bitter chill of midnight breaks the spell of even the best of games.
I have always wanted to do a feature film that brings the world of Lisa Frank to life. We have so much backstory on our characters, and they have been alive in my imagination since the beginning.
Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience.
Poetry can do a lot of things to people. I mean it can improve your imagination. It can take you to new places. It can give you this incredible form of verbal pleasure.
Of the things which nourish the imagination, humour is one of the most needful, and it is dangerous to limit or destroy it.
Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.
For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.
Victorville gave me opportunity to go inside and explore my imagination a bit.
I love a match like Money in the Bank; I love a hardcore match, and that’s what the Money in the Bank ladder matches are. Throw the rule book out and let out your imagination.
Dwellers by the sea are generally superstitious; sailors always are. There is something in the illimitable expanse of sky and water that dilates the imagination.
My imagination functions much better when I don’t have to speak to people.
You have to have an unlimited imagination, an unlimited restraint on your inhibition when you’re working. You have to even dare to fail, even in a scene, whatever it is.
Faith is spiritualized imagination.
Doing ‘White Collar,’ quite often my character goes undercover, so therein lies the compounding of the imagination. I get to play Peter Burke and then someone else when Peter Burke goes undercover.
The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience – anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form.
My father used to say to me, ‘The only limit to your success is your own imagination.’ I actually believed that – like, I’m still coming to terms with the fact that I might not be an Olympic figure skater.
