A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists – with it all things are possible.
Ideas come from ordinary, everyday life. And from imagination. And from feelings. And from memories. Memories of dust in my sneakers and humming whitewalls down a hill called Monkey.
With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour.
I find my characters and stories in many varied places; sometimes they pop out of newspaper articles, obscure historical texts, lively dinner party conversations and some even crawl out of the dusty remote recesses of my imagination.
You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.
Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.
We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
The human relationship to combustion is as mysterious as it is fraught with madness. From the candle flame to the nuclear blast, it has lit up the human imagination with fear and fascination.
It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.
Only in men’s imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
My life has been a gift up to this point, and I’ve been blessed beyond my wildest imagination. And wherever this ride takes me is where I’m going.
Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.
My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
If you’re not a daydreamer, you haven’t got any imagination.
Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science.
No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.
Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that’s all you have.
Imagination is like the drunk man who lost his watch and must get drunk again to find it.
Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.
