Quotes About Imagination

Mr. Lemoncello bounced across the stage like a happy grasshopper.

Open a Book and Open Your Mind.

The human imagination, as Emma Goldman pointed out, has the power to make ideas felt. Goldman noted that when Andrew Undershaft, a character in George Bernard Shaw's play Major Barbara, says that poverty is "the worst of crimes" and "all the other crimes are virtues beside it," his impassioned declaration elucidates the cruelty of class warfare more effectively than Shaw's socialist tracts.

We try to see ourselves moving through our life as a camera would see us, mindful of how we hold ourselves, how we dress, what we say. We invent movies that play inside our heads. We imagine ourselves the main characters. We imagine how an audience would react to each event in the movie of our life.

The miracle of your mind isn't that you can see the world as it is. It's that you can see the world as it isn't.

Anything that happens in film industry is a miracle.

For two days I had the company of a girl. She appeared next to me. It was no less of a miracle if it was my imagination which had summoned her up, because it happened at the very moment I had broken down and given up.

I think all of us create our own miracles.

Of the birth of subgenres, there is no end. They arise like bubbles full of miraculous hopes and potentials from the Planckian foam of the canon, inspiring writers new and established alike.

I praticed making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that I was going to see the devil if I kept looking in the mirror. That fascinated me even more, of course.

For most of us, art is supposed to do something more than simply mirror the confusions of the world.

My grandmother and I would go see movies, and we'd come back to the apartment - we had a one-room apartment in Hollywood - and I would kind of lock myself in this little dressing room area with a cracked mirror on the door and act out what I had just seen.

I'm still like an excited kid playing guitar in front of the bedroom mirror.

From when I can remember, I wanted to be an actress. I am a die hard fan of dancing and would take my dad's clothes and my mom's clothes and dance in front of the mirror. I loved my dad's clothes, as they had a lot of glitter in them.

I always often say, when I was a kid, I wasn't just playing with baby dolls. I was standing in the mirror with brush in my hand as a microphone singing songs.

That was my fantasy, actually - to become a billionaire, buy the 'Sun' and the 'Mirror,' and close them down.

When I used to work the road, I remember I used to ask myself in the mirror, literally, like in a movie, back when I was not very good at all, I'd say, 'What's it like being the greatest comedian in the world?'

Well, as a kid I did all the Bloody Mary games and using a mirror to scare yourself.

When I was young, I was a huge Michael Jackson fan, but I would dance only in front of the mirror, alone in my room.

During my adolescent years, I watched a lot of theatre. I had the habit of enacting every scene I saw in front of the mirror.

I think my characters are more wish fulfillments than they are mirrors. They see things I don't and live in a world I can only enter through words.

Mirrors are the essence of movies.

If I'm writing something and I'm not feeling mischievous, then I know it's not going to be great.

I was always in trouble. I was mischievous. And movies were always a part of my world.