Quotes About Imagination

When I was little, my mom tells me, I used to say things like, 'Mom do you hear the string section? Do you hear the string section?' And she would look at me and say, 'No honey, I don't know what you're talking about.'

The marvelous thing about 'Doctor Who' is that it tells stories that no one else can tell.

A house, having been willfully purchased and furnished, tells us more than a body, and its description is a foremost resource of the art of fiction.

Nobody tells you Rwanda looks like Tuscany with its tiled roofs.

It's exhilarating to read something that tells you that people saw something and felt something that you thought was so discreet. When they relate you to some of their own fantasies of who or how some actresses should be in movies. That's really kind of sweet!

'Adventure Time' tells stories where anything can happen, but what happens is. It stars Finn, a boy who fights evil, and Jake, a dog with stretchy powers. Both of them can talk.

I am quite a dreamer, and usually when someone tells a story, I tend to get distracted easily.

I enjoyed working with Vikram Kumar, as he is an amazing director who is full of ideas, and he tells me that he has different compartments in his brain in which he places different story ideas and works on them simultaneously.

I'm aware families sit around the telly to watch 'Vera', which is making entertainment out of murder. But I don't enjoy reading about people's pain. I tend to put myself in that position, and it's not somewhere I want to be.

We were pushing the boundaries a bit of Saturday morning telly and trying new things.

Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.

Even as a young child, I was a lover of books and of the spaces in which, as indeed in a sacred temple, books might safely reside.

For a child everything is wonderful, be it going to a fair or visting a temple with parents. This happiness and enthusiasm needs to reflect in my writing.

Growing up, I watched a lot of Shirley Temple movies.

Imagination allows you to bend the rules of the temporal world.

We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.

As a child, I always enjoyed building forts by stringing up bed sheets and clothes. I continue to be inspired by makeshift structures, including my own kids' forts and temporary architecture of all sorts.

We all need empty hours in our lives or we will have no time to create or dream.

Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.

The great successful men of the world have used their imagination they think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building - steadily building.

Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.

A single idea / the sudden flash of a thought / may be worth a million dollars.

The source and center of all man's creative power... is his power of making images, or the power of imagination.

Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.