Quotes for Imagination

I used to lie in bed in my flat and imagine what would happen if there was a zombie attack.

Simon Pegg

Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.

Samuel Ullman

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

John Muir

Fantasy has a dark side to it. It also has a light hemisphere - the power of the human imagination to keep going, to imagine a better tomorrow.

Tim O'Brien

All art, from the paintings on the walls of cave dwellers to art created today, is autobiographical because it comes from the secret place in the soul where imagination resides.

Gloria Vanderbilt

Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.

Orison Swett Marden

All of imagination - everything that we think, we feel, we sense - comes through the human brain. And once we create new patterns in this brain, once we shape the brain in a new way, it never returns to its original shape.

Jay S. Walker

If people long to create a better world, then we must use our platform to nurture imagination - hopeful ideas, fresh alternatives, belief that the way things are isn't the way things need to be.

Katharine Viner

It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.

Edouard Manet

Anyone who lives within his means suffers from a lack of imagination.

Lionel Stander

Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave.

Claude Bernard

To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.

Isaac D'Israeli

I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination.

Leslie Banks

It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.

Martha Gellhorn

A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.

Russell Page

I still find it quite easy to find my way into a child's imagination. We're all Peter Pan ourselves in some respects. Everybody should keep some grip on childhood, even as a grownup.

Tim Curry

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.

Austin O'Malley

I grew up in the '80s where there's a lot of these kind of post-apocalyptic, post-comet, post-whatever it was, so that always captured my imagination a lot as a little kid, that idea of getting access to secret places and being able to roam around where you're not supposed to.

Gillian Flynn

You know, working as an actor, I'm always working within my own imagination.

Charles Keating

I wouldn't say that I've had a tough life by any stretch of the imagination.

Duncan Sheik