Imagination quotes

For me, my travels have been the chance to go to a place that already exists in my imagination.

I think if you're a competent actor with a good imagination, and if it's on the page, it makes your job a lot easier.

I don't actually like explaining the meanings of my songs, because I think people can take away more from it if they use their imagination.

The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.

Heaven knows, I've exposed myself in my novels through the use of fantasy and imagination... now my new book is about what really happened to me... not my heroines.

There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.

I didn't have the equipment for the regular world of being a lawyer. I didn't have the imagination for that. I did have a funny kind of ambition, but I didn't know where to put it.

In imagination, there's no limitation.

The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized.

Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success on the stage.

I never had the financial means that the media said I had. I laugh when I hear the amounts, $400 million, $800 million. Where do they get this imagination?

Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.

My best investment is my imagination, because it has never failed to bring me my greatest returns!

The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.

The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.

Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.

I grew up in the '80s where there's a lot of these kind of post-apocalyptic, post-comet, post-whatever it was, so that always captured my imagination a lot as a little kid, that idea of getting access to secret places and being able to roam around where you're not supposed to.

In those days, it didn't take much imagination to come up with something that required great lyric development skills. You just thought of an experience that you might have gone through, and write it down.

Yes, I was correctly quoted in saying I introduced sex into films in the 20's, but it was sex in good taste and left a great deal to one's imagination.

If you don't pay attention and if your imagination isn't pretty much engaged, you're going to miss things and you're going to miss opportunities for it to be as compelling and as creepy as it can be.