680 private quotes tagged imagination

“My imagination is my polestar I steer by that.” — Clive Barker

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“A child who has never fantasized about having other parents is seriously lacking in imagination.” — Fred G. Gosman

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“You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination.” — Larry McMurtry

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“Now, I'm a failed political consultant. But sometimes fiction has a way of capturing people's imagination in a way that non-fiction doesn't. Conservatives typically haven't written much fiction - specifically political thrillers - over the years to educate, inspire and mobilize people on issues of great import, but we ought to.” — Joel C. Rosenberg

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“When you believe in what you're doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a difference.” — Samuel Dash

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“And, as I have said, it's made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren't external, how astonishing the mediums become! Victor Hugo said of his voices that they were like his own mental powers multiplied by five.” — James Merrill

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“When it came to political power, blacks need not apply. Add to this steaming stew the growing tensions over the Vietnam War and the movement for civil rights, and you had plenty of elements to fire the imagination of a novice journalist.” — Andrea Mitchell

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“Further, for once, I like the idea that people who think I'm a constant voice for the furthering of the imagination have to see that interest in a more materialistic fashion.” — Peter Sotos

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“It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income.” — Leonard Orr

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“But in a 24-hour day, the 25th hour is also the impossible hour, an hour that doesn't exist, that can only be created by the imagination.” — David Benioff

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“I was a wild, mischievous kid, and I had tremendous imagination. Any experience I had, I'd try to reenact it.” — Adrien Brody

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“The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination.” — Sarah Fielding

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“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

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“The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the painting. I think getting beyond the four edges of an opportunity or challenge is one of the basic skills you need in business.” — Thomas Kinkade

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“When you're young you have no worries, no drama, only your imagination. It's the best!” — Devon Werkheiser

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“By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.” — Dorthea Brande

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“But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there.” — Roger McGuinn

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“If you don't pay attention and if your imagination isn't pretty much engaged, you're going to miss things and you're going to miss opportunities for it to be as compelling and as creepy as it can be.” — Bruce Greenwood

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“Yes, I was correctly quoted in saying I introduced sex into films in the 20's, but it was sex in good taste and left a great deal to one's imagination.” — Pola Negri

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“In those days, it didn't take much imagination to come up with something that required great lyric development skills. You just thought of an experience that you might have gone through, and write it down.” — Phil Harris

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“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

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“Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.” — Carl Clinton Van Doren

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“The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.” — Edmund Wilson

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“The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.” — Edmund Wilson

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“My best investment is my imagination, because it has never failed to bring me my greatest returns!” — Randy Castillo

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