My Imagination Quotes - Page 17

• Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

  James Russell Lowell

  Inspirational, Loneliness, Character

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among my Books, etc”, p.32

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• For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Inspirational, Imagination, Goal

  Maxwell Maltz (2016). “Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life”, p.31, Penguin

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• …Then another porpoise broke the water and rolled toward us. A third and fourth porpoise neared. The visitation was something so rare and perfect that we knew by instinct not to speak—and then as quickly as they had come, the porpoises moved away from us…Each of us would remember that all during our lives. It was the purest moment of freedom and headlong exhilaration that I had ever felt. A wordless covenant was set, and I would go back in my imagination, and return to where happiness seemed so easy to touch.

  Pat Conroy

  Imagination, Perfect, Water

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• I've basically made a career out of my imagination. I feel very lucky.

  Kat Dennings

  Careers, Imagination, Lucky

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination.

  Leslie Banks

  Writing, Imagination, Genre

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• I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination.

  Cornelia Funke

  Dragons, Years, Imagination

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• There is nothing in England that exercises a more delightful spell over my imagination than the lingerings of the holiday customs and rural games of former times. They recall the pictures my fancy used to draw in the May morning of life, when as yet I only knew the world through books, and believed it to be all that poets had painted it; and they bring with them the flavour of those honest days of yore, in which, perhaps with equal fallacy, I am apt to think the world was more home-bred, social, and joyous than at present.

  Washington Irving

  Morning, Book, Home

  Washington Irving (1843). “The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Esq. (Wasington Irving)”, p.172

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• I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.

  Beverly Cleary

  Book, Imagination, Stories

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• My imagination is a kind of animal. So what I do is keep it alive.

  Haruki Murakami

  Animal, Imagination, Alive

  "Haruki Murakami: 'My lifetime dream is to be sitting at the bottom of a well'" by Marta Bausells, www.theguardian.com. August 24, 2014.

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• I was always fascinated by the absurdities and luxuries and the snobbism of the world that fashion magazines showed. Of course, it’s not for everyone...But I lived in that world, not only during my years in the magazines business but for years before, because I was always of that world-- at least in my imagination.

  Diana Vreeland

  Fashion, Years, Luxury

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• I'm not going to throw my imagination away. I refuse to lie down to expectation. If I can just hold out till I'm thirty, I'll be incredible.

  Wendy Wasserstein

  Lying, Imagination, Expectations

  "The Heidi chronicles and other plays". Book by Wendy Wasserstein, November 18, 1988.

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• I can't work completely out of my imagination-I must put my foot in a bit of truth-and then I can fly free.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Feet, Imagination, Bits

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• I surrender to the world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Father, Imagination, World

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• The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination.

  Sarah Fielding

  Loss, Imagination, Wife

  Sarah Fielding, Jane Collier (fl. 1753) (1754). “The cry: a new dramatic fable : in two volumes”, p.80

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• I long to embrace, to include in my own short life, all that is accessible to man. I long to speak, to read, to wield a hammer in a great factory, to keep watch at sea, to plow. I want to be walking along the Nevsky Prospect, or in the open fields, or on the ocean - wherever my imagination ranges.

  Anton Chekhov

  Life, Ocean, Men

  Anton Chekhov (2011). “Forty Stories”, p.11, Vintage

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• Every view, and every object I studied attentively, by viewing them again and again on every side, for I was anxious to make a lasting impression of it on my imagination.

  Karl Philipp Moritz

  Views, Imagination, Lasting Impressions

  Karl Philipp Moritz (2010). “Travels in England in 1782”, p.52, BoD – Books on Demand

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• I think more influential than Emily Dickinson or Coleridge or Wordsworth on my imagination were Warner Brothers, Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes cartoons.

  Billy Collins

  Brother, Creativity, Thinking

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• Certainly I've lived my whole life through my imagination. But the world of imagination is there for all of us--a sense of play, of pretending, of wonder. It's there with us as we live.

  Jim Henson

  Play, Imagination, World

  Jim Henson (2007). “Wisdom from It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider”, p.49, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• All my desires are born of my dreams. And I have proven my love with words. To what fantastic creatures have I entrusted myself, in what dolorous and ravishing world has my imagination enclosed me? I am sure of having been loved in the most mysterious of domains, my own. The language of my love does not belong to human language, my human body does not touch the flesh of my love. My amorous imagination has always been constant and high enough so that nothing could attempt to convince me of error.

  Paul Eluard

  Dream, Errors, Imagination

  Paul Eluard, “At The Window”

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• Religion and anger has gone together a lot, historically. My father, being very religious and angry, was trying to reconcile the ideas of love and forgiveness with damage in his own heart. We historically create God in the image of someone who will redeem us, or someone who has damaged us. A lot of my imaginations of God was a projection of my own damage because of my father. God is good but he has a lot of expectations, of which I have failed -- just like my dad. But I don't think it's truthful to create God as a projection of either our damage or our altruism.

  William P. Young

  Religious, Dad, Father

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• I write fantasy because it's there. I have no other excuse for sitting down for several hours a day indulging my imagination. Daydreaming. Thinking up imaginary people, impossible places.

  Patricia A. McKillip

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• Over many years so many poets have touched my imagination and opened paths for me - it hardly makes sense to list them. I have always read a great deal of poetry.

  Adrienne Rich

  Years, Imagination, Path

  Source: criticalflame.org

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• Music always stimulates my imagination. When I'm writing I usually have some Baroque music on low in the background chamber music by Bach, Telemann, and the like.

  Haruki Murakami

  Writing, Imagination, Chamber Music

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• A reason I became a writer was to escape the hopelessness and despair of the real world and enter the world of hope I could create with my imagination.

  Ray Bradbury

  Real, Imagination, Despair

  Ray Bradbury, Steven L. Aggelis (2004). “Conversations with Ray Bradbury”, p.163, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I love the opportunity to just let my imagination run riot! Non-fiction can be very restrictive.

  Raymond Buckland

  Running, Opportunity, Imagination

  Source: paganpages.org

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