Quotes About Imagination

I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.

I've always done just pretty much what I wanted to do. I mean, I just did a thing for a small press called 'Zeppelins West' that's nothing but an absolute, over-the-top farce, almost like an Abbott & Costello, alternate-universe Western.

I was always looking ahead. I used to do all kinds of things for entertainment. When I was young, we had no radio, no TV. We were 30 miles from the public library, out in the sticks in Western Kansas, and so I'd do arithmetic exercises.

If the history of the western moral imagination is the story of an enduring and unending revolt against human cruelty, there are few more consequential figures than Raphael Lemkin - and few whose achievements have been more ignored by the general public. It was he who coined the word 'genocide.' He was also its victim.

I myself saw the great works of Western civilization for the first time in my high school in Lithuania in bad black-and-white reproductions on miserable paper. That was, for many years, what art was for me. But from those miserable black-and-white reproductions, I got something, something unmistakable.

I think that dreamers are the most powerful people in the world.

There's nothing more dangerous than a powerful person who is imagining themselves as being powerless.

You feel kind of powerless as a kid, so I wanted to create a world where the kid actually gets some power.

The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.

I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry.

The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers.

I would like 'I Dream of Genie' powers.

Actually, I think I'm part of the last generation to grow up believing in magic and fairies and believing I had powers - you know, lying on the ground and trying to have my spirit leave my body - which never happened; still working on that bit.

Poetry had great powers over me from my childhood, and today the poems live in my memory which I read at the age of 7 or 8 years and which drove me to desperate attempts at imitation.

Implanting a microchip inside the brain to augment its mental powers has long been a science fiction trope.

We really liked the magic of 'Harry Potter' and 'The Lord of the Rings,' but we could never figure out where the powers came from.

Of course, as a kid, I had no idea what was practical: I wanted to be a paleontologist, then an astronaut.

When you're doing a play, you don't always have a practical world that you're working off of. You have to create it for yourself.

It's endless, the amount of things that music touches on that can help kids grow that are very, very practical.

There was never a push for us to become more practical... Fantasy is what our audience has come to expect.

I began to tell people that I wanted to be an entertainer. Between the ages of five and 11 there was an intense amount of practical drama going on.

There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.

I have trouble imagining what I could do that's beyond the practicality of what I can do.

The human imagination can connect to practically anything.