Quotes for Imagination

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

Susan Sarandon

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

Blaise Pascal

I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me. I believed this because my sister Emily convinced me of it when I was a toddler. I think she'd seen Invasion of the Body Snatchers and her imagination ran away with her. There's a part of me that still believes it.

Zooey Deschanel

I think New York is a good place to write in general because it's a grid. It's organized. You know where you are on the map. That centers you, and your imagination is perhaps freer to roam.

Alex Turner

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.

Henry David Thoreau

Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It's not only imagination, it's the distortion of the vision. You suddenly think, This person is idealistic, this person is strong, this person has dreams, when you know better most of the time. You put what you want to see on people.

Olivier Martinez

The difference between the Parthenon and the World Trade Center, between a French wine glass and a German beer mug, between Bach and John Philip Sousa, between Sophocles and Shakespeare, between a bicycle and a horse, though explicable by historical moment, necessity, and destiny, is before all a difference of imagination.

Guy Davenport

Love is based on imagination.

Olivier Martinez

We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.

Terry Brooks

For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.

Maxwell Maltz

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.

Benjamin Disraeli

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I just have a relationship with my imagination. It's like my friend, almost.

Steven Wright

Feynman once said, 'Science is imagination in a straitjacket.' It is ironic that in the case of quantum mechanics, the people without the straitjackets are generally the nuts.

Lawrence M. Krauss

Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination.

Terry Brooks

People know that they're going to see something which is entertaining but challenging as well because of the form it's in. It's dance theatre and it requires you to use your imagination - it's not straight forward.

Matthew Bourne

Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.

Camille Paglia

To create a new standard, it takes something that's not just a little bit different; it takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination, and the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.

Bill Gates

John Kerry had a very vivid imagination as a young person. I mean, he actually did go and take his bicycle from Norway to go camp in Sherwood Forest to be around the ghost of Robin Hood.

Douglas Brinkley