It is a great thing to have a big brain, a fertile imagination, grand ideals, but the man with these, bereft of a good backbone, is sure to serve no useful end.
The imagination is the spur of delights… all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
I want to be on the screen, I want to play dress up every day, I want be different people, I want to have fun, and I want to use my imagination.
A place makes a deep impression on you when you’re young. It lives with you. It’s like your childhood. It fertilises the imagination.
Speculators get a bad rap. In the popular imagination they’re greedy, heedless, and amoral, adept at price manipulations and dirty tricks. In reality, they often play a key role in making markets run smoothly.
Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.
Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.
Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you’re forced back on your own imagination.
I don’t think there is such a thing as pure imagination. I think it’s a combination of memory and invention.
This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.
I think what’s really the most ideal thing is for the player themselves, within their own imagination, to carve out what they view as being the essence of the character.
I had never been a comic book person before, really, because I had no access to them. Once I had access, I thought that these are just another avenue for telling stories and delving into the imagination.
Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.
I’ve always been drawn to love stories. Growing up, I would devour films like ‘Moonstruck,’ ‘Ghost,’ ‘Love and Basketball,’ and ‘Love, Jones,’ replacing the lovers in my imagination with two men.
If you just storyboard something, you’ve already planned it, and you’re stuck in the limitations of your imagination.
Although technology has enhanced our lives in many ways, it has also ensured the erosion of imagination.
I’ve always had an active imagination.
One of the things I’ve always loved about genre, comic books, science fiction and fantasy is that there’s a certain level of playfulness to them, and pure imagination and creativity.
Then I decided to draw from and on my own imagination, and everything came out perfect.
Reporters have to use their imagination, really put themselves in the shoes of the person they want to interview.
The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.
A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.
For me, it’s always a failure of the imagination. I have that anxiety that time is passing, that everything is ultimately fleeting and impermanent. I better take advantage of every single moment.
When I achieved the European record for reciting pi in 2004, this captured the imagination of Professor Simon Baron-Cohen in Cambridge, and he finally diagnosed me with Asperger’s that year.
Every comic delves into the personal archive when their imagination runs dry.
