Quotes About Imagination

I had a very active inner life as a kid. There's a good album or two worth of stuff that I can bring out on a rainy day if I have a loss for inspiration or whatever - even now.

Handling the digital avatar of a piglet was challenging, the actors had their task cut out while imagining a live creature on sets. It took them some time to get into the groove, but the journey was worth it.

I believe that a world that doesn't have some kind of magic in it wouldn't be worth living in.

I never know what I am writing. The moment you know what you're writing, you're writing nothing worth reading.

The things worth writing about, and the things worth reading about, are the things that feel almost beyond description at the start and are, because of that, frightening.

It's doubtful that any fiction worth reading has been produced on a computer running Windows Vista.

Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.

I can consciously say I like squashing things because I saw 'Tom and Jerry' films or Charlie Chaplin in 'Modern Times.' That's true.

I couldn't watch Tom and Jerry. The cruelty was too much. I had all these strange images, of tiny animals, all mixed up.

I used to pretend that I was Tom attacking Jerry, who was drawn on the ball.

When I started writing, I was reading people such as Tom Clancy or Michael Crichton, who did 'Jurassic Park,' which is possibly the most action-filled book you'll read, apart from mine, and I said to myself, 'Why aren't these guys doing big-scale action like you would see in a movie?'

I want Tom Clancy, the Maryland novelist, to write the story of the rest of my life.

I'd never imagined I had the opportunity to play with Tom Brady, the greatest athlete in sports history.

If you told my 13-year-old self that one day I'd be talking about how Tom Cruise and I had good chemistry, she'd think you were completely mad.

After seeing 'Big,' I wanted an elevator that opened directly into my apartment, just like Tom Hanks did.

Having a Mary Poppins-themed birthday party when I was 5 - all my friends went in dresses, and I went as a chimney sweep. I was a real tomboy.

I was a tomboy, always fairly eccentric, and convinced I'd grow up to be an actress.

I was a real tomboy as a little girl. I wore boys' clothes and played at being Robin Hood.

The reason I wrote 'You Suck' was that I so enjoyed spending time with Tommy and Jody.

A child's greatest achievements are possible in play, achievements that tomorrow will become her basic level of real action.

Your heart will be shattered by sorrow if you force it to live in tomorrow's ephemeral imagination - world instead of in today's eternal reality - now.

One Hundred Year Starship really is about the idea that is we pursue an extraordinary tomorrow; we'll build a better world today.

We humans lack imagination, to the point of not even knowing what tomorrow's important things will look like.

When it's time to dress, I have to think. I have to envision myself in a certain outfit. The night before, when I go to bed, I close my eyes and start thinking about the outfit I'm going to wear tomorrow: all the colors, the fabrics, how it's going to look. It's about putting the whole thing together.