680 private quotes tagged imagination

“A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.” — Ada Louise Huxtable

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“No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination.” — Anne Sullivan Macy

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“Now it is quite clear to me that there are no solid spheres in the heavens, and those that have been devised by the authors to save the appearances, exist only in the imagination.” — Tycho Brahe

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“The question is how to bring a work of imagination out of one language that was just as taken-for-granted by the persons who used it as our language is by ourselves. Nothing strange about it.” — Robert Fitzgerald

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“It's definitely true that there are a lot of the devices we used on 'Star Trek,' that came out the imagination of the writers, and the creators that are actually in the world today.” — LeVar Burton

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“Reading a hard copy book, and reading a book on an iPad are slightly different experiences. What they both have in common though is that you must engage your imagination in the process.” — LeVar Burton

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“In the beginning, we had a great deal of freedom, and Jerry wrote completely out of his imagination - very, very freely. We even had no editorial supervision to speak of, because they were in such a rush to get the thing in before deadline. But later on we were restricted.” — Joe Shuster

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“In this drawing we just let our imagination run wild. We visualized Superman toys, games, and a radio show - that was before TV - and Superman movies. We even visualized Superman billboards. And it's all come true.” — Joe Shuster

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“'Avatar' is the greatest, most comprehensive collection of movie cliches ever assembled, but it's put together in a brand new way with a new technology, and tremendous imagination, making it a true epic and a kind of a milestone.” — Joe Dante

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“Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe.” — Philip Guston

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“That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow.” — George Berkeley

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“Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible.” — Ida Tarbell

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“Usually I say I have no imagination.” — Jose Padilha

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“Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it.” — Robinson Jeffers

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“I loved the world of imagination.” — R. A. Salvatore

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“People who think my books are autobiographical, which they're not, credit me with having a much better memory than I do. I do, however, have a powerful imagination.” — Curtis Sittenfeld

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“I had been a reporter for 15 years when I set out to write my first novel. I knew how to research an article or profile a subject - skills that I assumed would be useless when it came to fiction. It was from my imagination that the characters in my story would emerge.” — Amy Waldman

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“Imagination, it turns out, is a great deal like reporting in your own head. Here is a paradox of fiction-writing. You are crafting something from nothing, which means, in one sense, that none of it is true. Yet in the writing, and perhaps in the reading, some of a character's actions or lines are truer than others.” — Amy Waldman

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“Although Bill Finger literally typed the scripts in the early days, he wrote the scripts from ideas that we mutually collaborated on. Many of the unique concepts and story twists also came from my own fertile imagination.” — Bob Kane

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“When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.” — Ellen Key

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“Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.” — Luigi Pirandello

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“When you are young your imagination is so clear.” — Nina Blackwood

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“I mean, it's fine when you're a kid and someone runs into the playground and goes, 'I've got this great game of pretend,' and you play... As an actor, getting to play, getting to use your imagination and be childish - it is weird but it's wonderful.” — Max Irons

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“An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.” — Eduard Hanslick

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“People can't just listen to the music and have their own imagination and take them where they wanna go.” — Ann Wilson

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