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Quotes About Imagination

We are striking it big in the electric light, better than my vivid imagination first conceived. Where this thing is going to stop Lord only knows.
~ Thomas A. Edison
The limits of your imagination are not the boundaries of my universe.
~ Paul Myers
The instant trivial as it is is all we have unless-unless things the imagination feeds upon, the scent of the rose, startle us anew.
~ William Carlos Williams
The true nature of the world was weirder than any bizarre fabric that anyone might weave from the warp and weft of imagination's loom.
~ Dean Koontz
I suppose I am a born novelist, for the things I imagine are more vital and vivid to me than the things I remember.
~ Ellen Glasgow
Now let's get talking: reefer madness. Like some arrogant government can't, By any stretch of the imagination, outlaw a plant.
~ Ani DiFranco
What we call music is what reminds us of ourselves. And sometimes electronic music helps lead the imagination to a space that seems outside of ourselves. But it never really is.
~ Vijay Iyer
Imagination is the greatest nation in the world!
~ Bob Proctor
Bad teaching is teaching which presents an endless procession of meaningless signs, words and rules, and fails to arouse the imagination.
~ W. W. Sawyer
Writing fiction is an act of imagination and fantasizing, and it's not relating in prose what you've been doing for the last two or three years.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
It's hard being quiet when one's imagination is so loud
~ Brian Basset
Only a group lack of imagination could account for people not wondering what went on in the dark around them.
~ Charlaine Harris
Beauty is equal parts flesh and imagination: we imbue it with our dreams, saturate it with our longings.
~ Nancy Etcoff
Nothing stimulates the practiced cook's imagination like an egg.
~ Irma S. Rombauer
It's because I'm a feminist that I can't stand women limiting other women's imaginations. It really makes me angry.
~ A. S. Byatt
Most churches don't have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.
~ Alan Hirsch
Heredity, to our understanding is not capable of giving to this illness (paraphilia) its characteristic form ... Heredity invents nothing, creates nothing anew; it has no imagination.
~ Alfred Binet
Anyone with an imagination can write about the day-to-day experiences of someone he or she is not.
~ Alice Mattison
Fiction writing is an act of imagination, lived experience is secondary in many ways, writing a novel really is all about inventing worlds and people.
~ Ayana Mathis
I have a recurring fantasy that one more article has been added to the Bill of Rights: the right to free access to imagination.
~ Azar Nafisi
I think that one thing fiction can offer, and must offer, is a place where someone's mind and their imagination can come to rest for a little while.
~ Ben H. Winters
Comme l'imagination a cre e le monde, elle le gouverne. Because imagination created the world, it governs it.
~ Charles Baudelaire
I enjoy working on a movie that lets your imagination run wild, it's great to be a part of and watch.
~ Chris Hemsworth
RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and poets to regulate the imagination and narcotize the conscience.
~ Ambrose Bierce