Imagination quotes

Imagination creates reality.

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.

The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.

Man lives by imagination.

I've done a lot of bad things. Use your imagination.

Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.

Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.

There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.

I love theatrics and have a huge imagination: Why would I want to sit onstage and sing a bunch of ballads back-to-back?

Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.

Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.

To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.

But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.

The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.

When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.

I've always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated.

Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.

Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.