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Quotes About Imagination

I have no sense of time, and I'm a dreamer.
~ Richard Gere
Part of the glamour of being a poet was always this long reach into the future. You knew you were managing time.
~ Eileen Myles
Time is the lens through which dreams are captured.
~ Francis Ford Coppola
Any time is the time to make a poem.
~ Gertrude Stein
There were dreams once upon a time, dreams now all but forgotten. On sad days I dust them off and fondle them nostalgically, with a patronizing wonder at the naivete of the youth who dreamed them.
~ Glen Cook
I think Canadians make a lot of music because we're stuck inside all the time.
~ Grimes
As a writer, you get to play, you get alter time, you get to come up with the smart lines and the clever comebacks you wish you'd thought of.
~ Iain Banks
Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.
~ Jim Bishop
Creativity is the residue of time wasted.
~ Albert Einstein
Nothing is improbable until it moves into the past tense.
~ George Ade
I always have this imagination, something I want to use. I don't understand the idea of leisure time.
~ Cher Wang
I have to paint fast on television because of the limited time, but I don't want people to see what I'm showing them as work, something to worry and fret over. This is supposed to be fun.
~ Bob Ross
My wonder button is being pushed all the time.
~ Carl Sagan
Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
~ Carl Sagan
I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time.
~ David Byrne
If I were blind, I'd wear a blindfold all the time.
~ Demetri Martin
Creator and reader are partners in the invisible creating something out of nothing, time and time again.
~ Scott McCloud
I have ideas whirring around my head all the time.
~ Timbaland
The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends or not, as much alone as a man on his death bed.
~ William Butler Yeats
It is the childlike part of us that produces works of the imagination. When we were children time passed so slow with us that we seemed to have time for everything.
~ William Morris
There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream.
~ William Wordsworth
The period of childhood is a stage on which time and space become entangled.
~ Yukio Mishima
I don't like games. You're robbing the precious time of children to be children. They need to be in touch with the real world more.
~ Hayao Miyazaki
The person who is capable of producing a large number of ideas per unit of time, other things being equal, has a greater chance of having significant ideas.
~ J. P. Guilford