Quotes for Imagination

I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake.

Mary McCarthy

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

H. L. Mencken

I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.

Duane Michals

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

Jessamyn West

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

Wallace Stevens

There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.

Leigh Hunt

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.

Judy Garland

There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.

Josh Billings

Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you're forced back on your own imagination.

Stephen King

Nature's imagination is so boundless compared to our own meager human imagination.

James Cameron

Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.

David Hume

A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.

Ada Louise Huxtable

I suspect that even most conservatives would prefer to live in the kind of world conjured up in the liberals' imagination rather than in the kind of world we are in fact stuck with.

Thomas Sowell

Obviously the imagination is fueled by emotions beyond the control of the conscious mind.

Joyce Carol Oates

Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall.

Stephen Sondheim

Boredom is your imagination calling to you.

Sherry Turkle

It's a great excuse and luxury, having a job and blaming it for your inability to do your own art. When you don't have to work, you are left with the horror of facing your own lack of imagination and your own emptiness. A devastating possibility when finally time is your own.

Julian Schnabel

To put yourself in another's place requires real imagination, but by doing so each Girl Scout will be able to love among others happily.

Juliette Gordon Low

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

I always wanted to be a writer, and I did want to be a novelist. In college I took a couple of classes that taught me I would never be a novelist. I discovered I had no imagination. My short stories were always thinly veiled memoir.

Anne Fadiman