680 private quotes tagged imagination

“My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest.”— Andrew Bird

“I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real.”— Sean Parker

“Use your imagination, and you'll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care.”— Mark Haddon

“I think my imagination dictates the technologies I use. But at the same time, my imagination can be technologic. Sometimes I see a tool and I know immediately how to use it, but most of the time I use the tool for an idea I already have.”— Michel Gondry

“Imagination creates some big monsters.”— Olivier Martinez

“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

“Ellis Peters's historical detail is very accurate and very minute, and therefore is not only interesting to read but good for an actor to acquire a sense of the period. And the other thing I think is that an actor lives in the land of imagination.”— Derek Jacobi

“When we were filming 'The Darkest Hour,' we didn't even know what the aliens were going to look like, we didn't even have a graphic reference. So it was definitely a big challenge to sell those kind of extreme moments when you're just generating them from your own imagination.”— Olivia Thirlby

“I believe that imagination inspires nations. It's something that I live by.”— Janelle Monae

“Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.”— Doris Day

“Under no stretch of imagination can war be regarded as an ethical process yet war, force, terror, and propaganda were the evolutionary means employed to weld the German people into a tribal whole.”— Arthur Keith

“I always believe it's better to have 30 imaginations working on a project, rather than one imagination telling the other 29 what to do.”— Trevor Nunn

“I have enough love to last me a lifetime! Thank God I'll never lose my imagination and my passion. That's really what it is. I'm still passionate about what I do.”— Teena Marie

“Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.”— Gaston Bachelard

“It was like there was a pile of kindling that was in the back of my imagination just waiting there. Once I lit it, it just flared up and I kept getting ideas and ideas.”— Kevin J. Anderson

“We especially need imagination in science.”— Maria Mitchell

“Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.”— Yann Martel

“Never forget that the key to the situation lies in the will and not in the imagination.”— Evelyn Underhill

“I do as much comedy as I possibly can, but I'm basically limited by the imagination of the secretaries who make the decisions.”— Rufus Sewell

“Imagination comes of not having things.”— LeRoy Neiman

“It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that.”— Robin Wright Penn

“Sometimes a technology is so awe-inspiring that the imagination runs away with it - often far, far away from reality. Robots are like that. A lot of big and ultimately unfulfilled promises were made in robotics early on, based on preliminary successes.”— Daniel H. Wilson

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

“We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.”— Terry Brooks

“I want to kick-start your imagination and let you discover the places it can take you.”— Terry Brooks