Explore Quotes on Imagination

My role models came in my imagination, from what I'd heard on the radio or on record... Vera Lynn I loved, but I'd only ever heard her on the radio. Gospel singers, Bessie Smith, Mahalia Jackson. So it was in my head that I visualised the emotion but no way to see how people do it.

Obviously the imagination is fueled by emotions beyond the control of the conscious mind.

People all learn things differently, and sometimes imagination isn't considered as useful a tool as it can be in the learning process - especially in school in subjects like math and science.

One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

Usually I say I have no imagination.

As a father, my job is to protect, and keep things away from interfering with her imagination because that's her voice.

Mars has long exerted a pull on the human imagination. The erratically moving red star in the sky was seen as sinister or violent by the ancients: The Greeks identified it with Ares, the god of war; the Babylonians named it after Nergal, god of the underworld. To the ancient Chinese, it was Ying-huo, the fire planet.

The power of imagination is infinite.

Once you've got a child to the point that they've discovered books, they're safe. There's a world of the imagination that when they're hurt or upset, they can move into, and it is wonderful.

Of the things which nourish the imagination, humour is one of the most needful, and it is dangerous to limit or destroy it.

'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' was the work of a wayward imagination brought to the end of its tether by political disgust and personal confusion.

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

I'm not writing non-fiction. I don't feel anything about me as a kid was unique. Except that I had more interest in being alone and using my imagination.

As an actor you have to have a strong vivid imagination as you're working and when the camera's rolling, but there's certainly a part of you that is aware of real life, that you're making a movie.

Only World War II, which mobilized 10 million draftees, could by any stretch of the imagination be called a people's war.

I question stuff, and I have my own theories on things, and people think I'm an idiot sometimes for it. But I also have a big imagination.

Most of my interests in terms of writing are dark, so it's discordant how much I try to lock into the vibe of wherever I'm at. Inhabiting the life of the imagination is the nature of survival strategy - you build yourself little worlds to enjoy.

The idea of love as a mysterious, undiscovered world has come to have no place in our innermost imagination.

I just can't afford to get bored, because if you've been blessed with a generous imagination, which a lot of actors have, to be engaged, to be stimulated, is to liberate your imagination.

To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.

I'm only interested in fiction that in some way or other voices the very imagination which is conceiving it.