Imagination quotes

We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.

One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.

I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.

What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to say, 'Oh, what this really is is so-and-so, ' reducing it to a simple formula.

My parents thought it was nice to develop my imagination, but they never seriously thought that anything would ever come of it. They said that I couldn't be an actress because I would be taller than all my leading men, so I thought I would be a writer instead.

I don't want to discredit people's individuality, but I think people are pretty much the same. People are very similar. If you have a good enough imagination then you can feel things that you personally have never done before. That's acting.

A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.

It takes no imagination to live within your means.

If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.

This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

I have a very vivid imagination.

A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.

Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.

You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence as it is in reality, and not according to imagination.

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works.

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.

It's a slight stretch of the imagination but most people are alike in most ways so I've never had any trouble identifying with the character that I'm playing.

In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.