Top 50 Imaginations Quotes

I feel that historical novelists owe it to our readers to try to be as historically accurate as we can with the known facts. Obviously, we have to fill in the blanks. And then in the final analysis, we’re drawing upon our own imaginations. But I think that readers need to be able to trust an author.

I think people’s imaginations are being neutered by the amount of access they can get to information just by pressing a button.

Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.

The image of the robot is very important to us, it’s very stimulating to people’s imaginations.

Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.

We want to galvanize people’s imaginations. With enough political will and investment, we could make wheelchairs obsolete.

I always liked the visuals to be choice and at the same time minimalist. And, I love black boxes. After all, that’s what theatre is, it’s an empty space, and it’s both limited and unlimited because the space is the space, but what you can do with people’s imaginations is really endless.

Many children are natural fantasists, I think, perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience.

What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!

Many in the creative professions were nerds in their pasts because they spent so long reading comics and using their imaginations when they were growing up.

Aren’t we all ‘Star Trek’ fans? That’s the show that captured our imaginations after cartoons and everything!

I’ve always been curious about the other worlds we can shift into in our imaginations.

The desire of God’s heart is immeasurably larger than our imaginations can conjure.

In the U.S. and abroad, there’s incredible positivity towards Hyperloop. People are excited about it, and it’s really begun to capture people’s imaginations.

I’m not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people’s imaginations.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn’t it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.

The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person’s name, is vitality: if he comes to life in our imaginations, he passes the test.

I think often in film we limit our imaginations a little – well, quite a lot, actually… things get quite formulaic.

Reading fairytales to children expands their imaginations.

I think readers’ imaginations are far more powerful than anything you can put on a page and, therefore, can conjure up graphic images for themselves, which I think you just have to nudge them towards.

Writers and painters alike are in the business of consulting their own imaginations, and stimulating the imaginations of others. Together, and separately, they celebrate the absolute mystery of otherness.

When I want an opinion, I’ll get it from my peers – from men of vision, like our great railroad builders… Stanford, Huntington, Dinsmore… fellows with imaginations broad enough to span the continent.

The domestic lives we live – which may be accidental, or not entirely of our making – help to make possible our writing lives; our imaginations are freed, or stimulated, by the very prospect of companionship, quiet, a predictable and consoling routine.

Science fiction writers create all sorts of futures – that comes with the job. But it’s not the type that matters – hopeful or dark – it’s the variety we see as readers. It’s nurturing the imaginations of those who will go on to create the world around us.

‘Mr Selfridge’ is a lot more accessible than shows like ‘Downton.’ Everyone knows the store, but not everyone knows the story. Having this store as the backdrop with all of society working under one roof, I think it really captures people’s imaginations.

The problem with wonks is that they can’t deal with emotion and feeling, and they don’t like stories. It means that they cannot connect at all with the feelings and imaginations of the voters.

Words build a bridge between the imaginations of writer and reader, creating something unique between them.

It’s because I’m a feminist that I can’t stand women limiting other women’s imaginations. It really makes me angry.

Film has become a very passive experience, but with theatre, there is a contract made with the audience, where they participate. That’s why my parents’ puppet theatre was such a special place – people used their imaginations. It’s a muscle that needs using.

We’re all unique as actors. To yourself, you are unique. You have to think, ‘I’m me. I’m not going to bunch myself with other people.’ Agents and producers have to get you into a box to accommodate their limited imaginations.

It is time to kickstart a new U.S. space transportation industry and time to spread that industry into space itself, leveraging our space station legacy to ignite imaginations and entrepreneurship so that we can move farther out, back to the Moon, out to the asteroids, and on to Mars.

Digital imaging allows both groups to rise above the limitations of mess and clutter and mechanics, and apply our talents to creating images limited only by our imaginations.

I never said finish the Congress, because the opposition is needed… I do not have such petty imaginations.

I think human beings will always still really enjoy using our imaginations, and ‘Fringe’ allows you to do that. It’s slightly scary and believable. There just might be an alternate universe. There just might be people on the other side that are like us, living a different life.

Kids have got such active imaginations and they’re scared of so many different things.

The scientists often have more unfettered imaginations than current philosophers do. Relativity theory came as a complete surprise to philosophers, and so did quantum mechanics, and so did other things.

In all of my work I’m trying to create a dialogue, in which I want to provoke the recipients, stimulate them to use their own imaginations. I don’t just say things recipients want to hear, flatter their egos or comfort them by agreeing with them. I have to provoke them, to take them as seriously as I take myself.

We have secured names and trademarks with either loose ideas or intentions, or with our imaginations. Sometimes things come of it, or they don’t.

Teenagers are in some ways the best readers because their imaginations haven’t been narrowed down by boring things like jobs and the realities of money and capitalism.

People have to free their imaginations and realize everyone can do something, on a large or a small scale, depending on their ability. Those who can do a lot because of their position and potential should jump right in there.

Joan Crawford and Bette Davis are larger than life. They just are. They sucked all the oxygen out of a room: they’re icons; they loom large in our imaginations. But the truth of the matter is both women were diminutive.

My kids definitely give me all of my ideas. I’m always listening to what they talk about, how they play, what they play. Their imaginations are so incredible.

Use your imaginations, and use your empathy. If you don’t do that, you’re limiting yourself as an artist, and you’re hurting the world.

I think I’ve got a decent imagination. I hope some of my stories inspire other young imaginations.

I’m a huge fan of the game. It’s beyond a fringe benefit of obviously getting to work at the league office. I watch a ton of games in person, on television, on all forms of new media I follow the league. And so it’s just beyond my wildest imaginations to me to now be the commissioner of the NBA.

Novelists should be free to write whatever they want, to let their imaginations roam as close to or as removed from reality as they see fit.

We don’t have a lot of space in our imaginations to allow people to expand what they do.

One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations.

The human condition is endlessly fascinating to me, and the existential horrors of life are what drive our imaginations and theater in general.

Pop music can get inside us and enter our memory bubbles. It provides those true Proustian moments, unlocking sensations, unlocking our imaginations. Music inspired me as a filmmaker.