Quotes About Imagination

I love movies. Movies have influenced me as a writer.

would have happened if she were here tonight when

the future sparkled in front of them like an ocean.

Prosecutors could afford to be unimaginative, even stodgy. They trotted out their cases to the jury like furniture instructions from Ikea. Step-by-step with big illustrations, all the tools you needed included. No need to look elsewhere. No need to worry. And at the end you have a sturdy table that is both stylish and functional.

LOS ANGELES IS LIKE YOUR BRAIN. YOU ONLY EVER USE 20% OF IT. BUT IMAGINE IF WE USED IT ALL.

Let me tell you something, Mr. L.A. I've been to a place where it doesn't matter what they do to you, where nothing can hurt you. I've been there and back." "Everybody's been to Disneyland, so what?

The city shimmered out there like a million dreams, not all of them good.

What Bosch had were just parts of the whole. What he needed was the glue that would correctly hold them together. When he had first received his gold shield he had a partner on the robbery table in Van Nuys who told him that facts weren't the most important part of an investigation, the glue was. He said the glue was made of instinct, imagination, sometimes guesswork and most times just plain luck.

It was in Frank Morgan's alto sax that I found the soundtrack of my detective. In his sad but uplifting ballad "Lullaby," written by pianist George Cables, I discovered my detective's anthem. For many years I played that song at the start of each writing day.

The mark of a true artist, I believe, is to create something that can live on in another's imagination. Hieronymus Bosch certainly accomplished this.

This is the gift of your species and this is the danger, because you do not choose to control your imaginings. You imagine wonderful things and you imagine terrible things, and you take no responsibility for the choice. You say you have inside you both the power of good and the power of evil, the angel and the devil, but in truth you have just one thing inside you - the ability to imagine.

This novel is fiction, except for the parts that aren't.

Geniuses never pay attention.

Grant knew that people could not imagine geological time. Human life was lived on another scale of time entirely. An apple turned brown in a few minutes. Silverware turned black in a few days. A compost heap decayed in a season. A child grew up in a decade. None of these everyday human experiences prepared people to be able to imagine the meaning of eighty million years - the length of time that had passed since this little animal had died.

And entertainment has nothing to do with reality. Entertainment is antithetical to reality.

The internal psychological pressure to make up a story, to explain the ruins before one's eyes, is powerful indeed.

It's hard to observe without imposing a theory to explain what we're seeing, but the trouble with theories, as Einstein said, is that they explain not only what is observed but what CAN BE observed. We start to build expectations based on our theories. And often those expectations get in the way.

He finally decided that children liked dinosaurs because these giant creatures personified the uncontrollable force of looming authority. They were symbolic parents.

That dosent look dangerous it looks like a giant chiken.

They want to see their expectation... Entertainment has nothing to do reality. Entertainment is antithetical to reality.

entertainment has nothing to do with reality. Entertainment is antithetical to reality.

The characteristic of vision. That great sweeping act of imagination which evoked a marvelous park, where children pressed against the fences, wondering at the extraordinary creatures, come alive from their storybooks. Real vision. The ability to see the future. The ability to marshal resources to make that future vision a reality.

You can make a boat, but you can't make the ocean. You can make an airplane, but you can't make the air. Your powers are much less than your dreams of reason would have you believe.

But they're not real now," Wu said. "That's what I'm trying to tell you. There isn't any reality here.