Quotes about Imagination

“A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.”

“I'm not a perfect human being by any stretch of the imagination. But there is always this little voice inside of me that keeps me where I know I need to be.”

“'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.”

“I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.”

“Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.”

“When you gaze at stars and think about planets, the places it takes your imagination are amazing! You look up the sky, and you know the stars have always been here; they were referenced in biblical times and have always been present. They are somewhere up there in the future, and they guide you; they make you feel safe.”

“I just can't afford to get bored, because if you've been blessed with a generous imagination, which a lot of actors have, to be engaged, to be stimulated, is to liberate your imagination.”

“My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.”

“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.”

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

“There are two 'Snow White' movies coming out for the same reason that you remember back in the day there was 'Armageddon' and then 'Deep Impact.' You know, 'Andromeda Strain' and then 'Outbreak.' Like, all of those things. It's common because basically studios have no imagination in making the decisions.”

“We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.”

“If they want to talk about aliens and anything like that... that's part of the gift God gave us. That's what makes life exciting. We're pretty stuck, you know. What gives flight to our life is our imagination.”

“Mostly, I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.”

“The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.”

“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.”

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

“My parents thought it was nice to develop my imagination, but they never seriously thought that anything would ever come of it. They said that I couldn't be an actress because I would be taller than all my leading men, so I thought I would be a writer instead.”

“One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap.”

“An idea is salvation by imagination.”

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