Quotes About Imagination

I imagine if aliens came down to Earth, they'd actually be quite tall; people seem to get everything right about extraterrestrials but the size!

If you ask a kid what their dreams are, they will give you a list that is as long as I am tall. Once you get older that list gets shorter and shorter, so dreams shrink. I think dreams should grow as you get older.

I have always been an obsessive reader - I remember going back and forth to the local library with stacks of books taller than I was.

My parents thought it was nice to develop my imagination, but they never seriously thought that anything would ever come of it. They said that I couldn't be an actress because I would be taller than all my leading men, so I thought I would be a writer instead.

What is great about entrepreneurship is that entrepreneurs create the tangible from the intangible.

If you ask an actor what he'd prefer to act on, he'd probably say a tangible, real set, or even better, a real location out on a mountainside or by a river. It's just easier because you don't have to imagine anything.

I've always had a lot of story ideas rattling around in my head, but 'Nimona' felt very tangible very early. I knew the ending. So I just started making more and more pages, and then I made it a webcomic, like, 'OK, I'm really gonna do this.'

I love jewellery, and the idea of having something you've created become tangible is really exciting.

DVDs have their place, but the cinema is a tangible, emotional experience that I would hate my children not to have.

Usually, by the time I hit 'save' before taking a nap, my word count has gone down, but the world I'm creating feels more tangible than it did before.

I've done 'Yo Gabba Gabba!' I've done... oh, it's not called 'Rapunzel' anymore. 'Tangled', that's it. Those are both huge.

'Indiana Jones' was me growing up. I could quote lines from 'Tango and Cash' as much as I could quote lines from 'The Searchers'.

The basic idea for what became 'Epic Mickey' began at the Disney Think Tank.

During dull moments at school, I admit, I not only drew soldiers shooting one another but also tanks, bombers, fighters, and even the occasional space ship with planet-destroying powers.

I'm just a guy drawing comics. Guys knocking other guys through buildings. Guys flipping tanks over on each other. I'm just trying to be true to what I liked as a kid.

It was always that detail that drove me. Ever since I was a little kid, I used to get into the nitty gritty... when I was drawing army tanks or monsters, I'd do every nut and rivet, and I'd do every scale on the dragon's back. It was just the way I was built.

When you write a poem these relations must reverse themselves. That is, the relation of the words to the subject must weaken and the relation of the words to the writer (you) must take on strength.

The imagination is a cynic.

In the world of imagination, all things belong. If you take that on faith, you may be foolish, but foolish like a trout.

In the world of imagination, all things belong.

Scholars look for final truths they will never find. Creative writers concern themselves with possibilities that are always there to the receptive.

Never write a poem about anything that ought to have a poem written about it, a wise man once told me.

The truly Christian imagination never lets Jesus Christ out of her sight.

The imagination, like all our faculties, has participated in the fall.