My Imagination Quotes - Page 4

• People may think I'm trying something new by telling stories, but they're just jokes connected to give the illusion of stories. But really, I just continue using my imagination and creating. That's what I do.

  Steven Wright

  Thinking, Trying Something New, Creating

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• Nothing is impossible. With so many people saying it couldn't be done, all it takes is an imagination.

  Michael Phelps

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• My imagination, my ability to understand the way love and people grow over time, how passion can surprise and renew, utterly failed me.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Passion, Imagination, People

  "Failure to Launch: When Beauty Fades". www.elle.com. May 20, 2009.

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• I sort of jumped out of movies and into the lifeboat of comics. I loved it right away. It was the opposite of film school. Whatever was in my imagination could end up in the finished product. There were just no limitations.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  School, Opposites, Imagination

  "Saga and Y: The Last Man writer Brian K. Vaughan talks about making comics his own way". Interview with Oliver Sava, www.avclub.com. November 04, 2012.

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• I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.

  H. G. Wells

  Sea, Imagination, Submarines

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• My imagination? No, I don't think it's VIVID at all. On the contrary, it's not nearly potent enough. My poor imaginative faculties have always needed...extentions. That's why I'm here with you. You're smiling again, or rather you're SMIRKING. Funny word, smirk. Rather like an extraterrestrial surname. Simon Smirk. How do you think that sounds?

  Thomas Ligotti

  Thinking, Imagination, Sound

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• Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Art, Imagination, Shadow

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• All human accomplishment has this same origin, identically. Imagination is a force of nature. Is this not enough to make a person full of ecstasy? Imagination, imagination, imagination! It converts to actual. It sustains, it alters, it redeems!

  Saul Bellow

  Imagination, Accomplishment, Enough

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• Everything you can imagine is real.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Meaningful, Art

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• I've always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated.

  Terry Pratchett

  Imagination, Looks, Invention

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• I would love to do a western. I would love to play an explorer. That is always something that has really captured my imagination since I was a kid, like James Cook or Magellan or Earnest Shackleton.

  John C. Reilly

  Kids, Play, Imagination

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• The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Art, Philosophical, Reality

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• I do think of Bombay as my hometown. Those are the streets I walked when I was learning to walk. And it's the place that my imagination has returned to more than anywhere else.

  Salman Rushdie

  Thinking, Imagination, Bombay

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• The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?

  Marquis de Sade

  Mean, Imagination, Joy

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• I feel very lucky to make a living from my imagination; I'm very grateful for that. I like that what I do is create. I'm feeling very lucky to have had the career I had. It's gone much longer and bigger than I ever thought it would be.

  Steven Wright

  Grateful, Careers, Imagination

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• The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.

  William Shakespeare

  Love You, Carpe Diem, Imagination Creativity

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 1, l. 7

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• Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Motivational, Spiritual, Art

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit”, p.2919, e-artnow

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• My problem is that my imagination won't turn off. I wake up so excited I can't eat breakfast. I've never run out of energy. It's not like OPEC oil; I don't worry about a premium going on my energy. It's just always been there. I got it from my mom.

  Steven Spielberg

  Mom, Running, Oil

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• Your imagination, my dear fellow, is worth more than you imagine.

  Louis Aragon

  Inspirational, Imagination, Students

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• My imagination is a twisted place.

  Taylor Swift

  Imagination, Twisted

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• The possible's slow fuse is lit by the Imagination.

  Emily Dickinson

  Carpe Diem, Imagination Creativity, Possibility

  Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.662, Harvard University Press

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• Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Reality, Imagination

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• My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.

  Tom Waits

  Reality, Men, Imagination

  "Tom Waits Interviews Tom Waits". www.npr.org. May 20, 2008.

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• If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Melania Trump Quote Sounds Suspiciously Similar To Marla Maples" by Alana Horowitz Satlin, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 04, 2016.

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• Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

  Simone Weil

  Life, Real, Carpe Diem

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.56, Psychology Press

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