Imagination Quotes

The fort.Where the pair stored their painted scenes and books of made-up languages, their two-man band, and the tiny matchbox bed plus accessories that they made in case, someday, their experiments in the world of shrinking finally panned out.

~ Michelle Cuevas

Writing is something that you can learn only by doing. To become a writer, you need an imagination, which you clearly have. You need to read books, which you clearly do. And you need to write, which you don't yet do, but should.

~ Jeff Zentner

Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.

~ Agatha Christie

The villages slept as the capable man went down,Time swished on the village clocks and dreams were alive,The enormous gongs gave edges to their sounds,As the rider, no chevalere and poorly dressed,Impatient of the bells and midnight forms,Rode over the picket docks, rode down the road,And, capable, created in his mind,Eventual victor, out of the martyr's bones,The ultimate elegance: the imagined land.

~ Wallace Stevens

If imagination is your wealth, then ideas are your abode.

~ Debasish Mridha

We wonder to write.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Human cultures construct an enormous variety of environments through language, technology, and institutions. We are born in and die in these systems of symbols and imagination.

~ William E. Paden

Explore your sacred mind.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The limits of your imagination create the boundaries of your world.

~ Debasish Mridha

To find the nectar of life, let me get lost in the mysteries and beauties of the imagination.

~ Debasish Mridha

Our imaginations are so stilted. The very thought of being like Jesus is breathtaking.

~ Billy Graham

Our schedules are so hectic we can’t get everything done, or else we are bored and restless, constantly looking for something to amuse us. We are the most frantic generation in history—and also the most entertained. The Bible tells us that both extremes are wrong.

~ Billy Graham

God gives us a glimpse of what heaven will be like for the believer. It will have the characteristics of a happy home, a holy city, a glorious garden, and a beautiful bride. This staggers the imagination!

~ Billy Graham

Sea-foam And coral! Oh, I'll Climb the great pasture rocks And dream me mermaid in the sun's Gold flood.

~ Adelaide Crapsey

Poetry can take you places that were once only traveled by your imagination.

~ Delano Johnson

An imaginary friend once asked me why Americans can't stand Russia. The answer was cold, deadly, silent, and, well expected. It’s because in Soviet Russia nothing happens anymore, because it doesn’t exist anymore. And Americans are all about happenings. If there isn’t one – they don’t go where it isn’t, because there isn’t anything to happen to them there.

~ Will Advise

The art wouldn’t complain if we leave her alone. Losing a touch with art, however, is losing a touch with our imagination.

~ Pawan Mishra

Laboratory research suggests that how we look and act in the virtual affect our behavior in the real.

~ Sherry Turkle

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~ Will Advise

People that are scared of the dark have great imaginations and are my kind of people. Those who see nothing in the darkness are boring.

~ Stewart Stafford

Much of the joy in falling in love with fictional characters comes from being able to envision new stories from them.

~ The Atlantic Monthly

When I was 30, I used to wonder when I was going to quit playing. Use disorder worry about it. Now, I know I'm never going to quit.

~ Davis Miller

God is concerned with our imaginations, for they in a large measure determine what kind of persons we are to be.

~ Billy Graham

Jesus invited us not to a picnic, but to a pilgrimage; not to a frolic, but to a fight. He offered us not an excursion, but an execution.

~ Billy Graham

All transgressions begin with sinful thinking . . . guard against the pictures of lewdness and sensuality that Satan flashes upon the screen of your imagination, select with care the books you read, choose discerningly the kind of entertainment youattend, the kind of associates with whom you mingle, and the kind of environment in which you place yourself.

~ Billy Graham

Never has there been a time when men tried so desperately to have fun as they do today.

~ Billy Graham

We have arrived at the point where we are flippant about God. We tell jokes about Him. God’s name is used so often in profanity in the entertainment world that sometimes it is embarrassing to watch television.

~ Billy Graham

We travel to see beauty of souls in new landscapes.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

All the birds who were never born, all the songs that were never sung and so can only exist in the imagination.And this one is Teddy's.

~ Kate Atkinson

She has no memories of her mother but imagines her as white, a soundless brilliance. Her father radiates a thousand colors, opal, strawberry red, deep russet, wild green; a smell like oil and metal, the feel of a lock tumbler sliding home, the sound of his key rings chiming as he walks.

~ Anthony Doerr

Never defend yourself, but define yourself with your imagination and actions.

~ Debasish Mridha M.d.

I liked that sentence then and I like that sentence now but then I had no way of making any sense of it, I could only keep it in my mind's eye, where it rested and grew in the embryo that would become my imagination

~ Jamaica Kincaid

All that night he thought like boomerangs fly: an idea would shoot way off into the distance, all the way to a caravan in Hollywood and, for a moment, when he had got as far away from school and reality as it was possible to go, he was reasonably happy; then it would begin the return journey, thump him on the head, and leave him in exactly the place he had started from. And all the time it got nearer and nearer to the morning.

~ Nick Hornby

Imagination is the core of attraction.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Whatever we want, we just imagination it; the core of attraction.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The way we contemplate technology on the horizon says much about who we are and who we are willing to become.

~ Sherry Turkle

I could not persuade her that a place does not merely exist, that it has to be invented in one's imagination.

~ Amitav Ghosh

The trouble with him was that he was without imagination.

~ Jack London

Babies are the buds of imagination that are ready to bloom with lights of love and affection.

~ Debasish Mridha

I have a vivid picture of what I want.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita