Quotes About Imagination

The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such a calling.

Artists never make wars. They are too busy making life out of the matter of their visions.

From the outset, I conceived Star Wars as a series of six films, or two trilogies.

In free society art is not a weapon...Artists are not engineers of the soul.

For me, I feel like, between 'Tron' and 'Oblivion,' I've gotten to fulfill my 'Star Wars' fantasies, in a way.

Music plays a huge role in the movie. The music in Star Wars, I can't imagine what the movie would have been like without it. It made the film.

If people want to make war they should make a color war, and paint each others' cities up in the night in pinks and greens.

I'm a big Star Wars fan.

War toys are scary. They have a rocket launcher with a bayonet attached, in case you miss.

I've always dreamed that George Lucas would call me one day and ask me to be in one of the 'Star Wars' films.

To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.

A story is a wondrous invention.

I'll pretend, I tell myself. Pretending is safer than believing.

We are in the hands of men whose power and wealth have separated them from the reality of daily life and from the imagination. We are right to be afraid.

War is a dumb game thought out by men when they become too old to play cowboys and crooks.

The past, which as always did not know the future, acted in ways that ask tobe imagined before they are condemned. Or even simplified.

It was easy to imagine the beginning of time here, but also, perhaps, its end.

The whole world had changed. Only the fairy tales remained the same.

Only World War II, which mobilized 10 million draftees, could by any stretch of the imagination be called a people's war.

The concept of marriage must have been thought up by an unimaginative pig.

Only the slow reader will notice the odd crowd of images-flier, butcher, seal-which have gathered to comment on the aims and activities of the speeding reader, perhaps like gossips at a wedding.

When my youngest daughter got married, I designed her wedding dress and I really let my imagination and energy go crazy! All the journalists seemed to love that dress.

The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.