Imagination Quotes

Lovers and madmen have such seething brainsSuch shaping fantasies, that apprehendMore than cool reason ever comprehends.

William Shakespeare

When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination.

Ahmet Zappa

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.

George Santayana

There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong.

Neil Gaiman

Imagination creates some big monsters.

Olivier Martinez

The wisest reason takes as her own principles those which the imagination of man has everywhere rashly introduced.

Blaise Pascal

In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts - in a poor black neighborhood, in the poor rural community of Eufaula, Oklahoma - would someday be called Congressman.

J. C. Watts

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.

Terry Pratchett

All you need to do is hold on tight...and believe.

Stephen King

I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.

Carlos Fuentes

Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.

Agnes Smedley

Woman is the sun, an extraordinary creature, one that makes the imagination gallop.

Marcello Mastroianni

Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love.

Gilbert Parker

For some reason I can't explain, artist and musicians tend to look younger than our age. Being in music, you need this youthful sense of discovery and wonder for what you're doing and keep your imagination open. That's a youthful way of looking at life and I think that reflects in how you age.

Joshua Bell

If they want to talk about aliens and anything like that... that's part of the gift God gave us. That's what makes life exciting. We're pretty stuck, you know. What gives flight to our life is our imagination.

Michael Moriarty

I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination.

Derek Jacobi

That kind of imagination is why we're not dead.

Rebecca McKinsey

We especially need imagination in science.

Maria Mitchell

The Sky is the daily bread of the imagination

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Keats mourned that the rainbow, which as a boy had been for him a magic thing, had lost its glory because the physicists had found it resulted merely from the refraction of the sunlight by the raindrops. Yet knowledge of its causation could not spoil the rainbow for me. I am sure that it is not given to man to be omniscient. There will always be something left to know, something to excite the imagination of the poet and those attuned to the great world in which they live (p. 64)

Robert Frost