Quotes for Imagination

Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.

Mason Cooley

I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.

S. E. Hinton

Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.

Mason Cooley

When you're young you have no worries, no drama, only your imagination. It's the best!

Devon Werkheiser

Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.

Barbara Januszkiewicz

I'm a better coach now than when I joined Celtic. The longer you stay in any job, the better you become. If you lose your drive, your enthusiasm, your imagination, that experience is no good.

Gordon Strachan

Grandchildren have taught me how important the future is. I try to look through their eyes and envision what's in their imagination. What's the world going to look like when they're my age? That really does take a huge imagination.

Richard Lugar

The imagination is part of the arsenal that actors draw from.

Bryan Cranston

What does it mean to be Catholic and not a Catholic? I feel adrift, homeless. My Catholic imagination allows me to see the soul as a lit breath, seeking the divine. It persists.

Julianna Baggott

Our imaginations are strong as children. Sometimes they get shoved aside, these imaginations. They get dusty and mildewed with age. The imagination is a muscle that has to be put to use or it shrivels.

Julianna Baggott

Cynicism and naivety lie cheek by jowl in the American imagination; if the United States is one of the most venal nations on Earth, it is also one of the most earnestly idealistic.

Terry Eagleton

With the world as it now presents itself, there is something perverse, and probably dysfunctional, about a person who stays in the same house for 40 years. What about the expanding family syndrome, the school-lottery migration, the property portfolio neurosis? Have you no imagination?

Iain Sinclair

I have always been fascinated by paleontology and prehistoric people, and I've always thought that one of the most intriguing moments in human history was the birth of artistic imagination. I always loved those cave paintings.

Kathryn Lasky

There are no shortcuts in life - only those we imagine.

Frank Leahy

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.

Paul Gauguin

I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.

Peter Nivio Zarlenga

We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex - but Congress can.

Cullen Hightower

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

Orison Swett Marden

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible.

Alexander Chase

Make sure you visualize what you really want, not what someone else wants for you.

Jerry Gillies