Quotes About Imagination

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

I shall create a new world for myself.

Black and white is abstract; color is not. Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world.

Humans think in stories, and we try to make sense of the world by telling stories.

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.

The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.

We hunger to understand, so we invent myths about how we imagine the world is constructed - and they're, of course, based upon what we know, which is ourselves and other animals. So we make up stories about how the world was hatched from a cosmic egg or created after the mating of cosmic deities or by some fiat of a powerful being.

I think my inner child wants to take over the world.

Cinema is a world of imagination.

Great theatre is about challenging how we think and encouraging us to fantasize about a world we aspire to.

It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.

Wandering around the web is like living in a world in which every doorway is actually one of those science fiction devices which deposit you in a completely different part of the world when you walk through them. In fact, it isn't like it, it is it.

Imagination rules the world.

Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.

Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.

As long as you keep one foot in the real world while the other foot's in a fairy tale, that fairy tale is going to seem kind of attainable.

As a kid growing up in the back streets of Dublin I used to pretend I was playing in the World Cup with my mates out on the streets, and now I will be doing it for real.

Every day growing up, I had this dream about the World Cup: I score the winning goal. In the final minute. With my butt!

I dreamt of playing in front of thousands of people as a kid, but I dreamt of playing in World Cup finals as well.

I'd never allow myself to imagine winning the World Cup. Cynical me!

I was a very happy but quite solitary kid. I spent hours playing on my own, mainly with toy soldiers, and played entire World Cup football tournaments in the garden with commentary in my head.

I don't tend to set out on huge world domination goals or have anything in mind. I just like to play. I like to gig a lot; I like to write music.