Quotes by Imagination When you do fiction, it is your imagination you have put out there. Beth Moore youryouimaginationfiction As a bookish child in Calcutta, I used to thrill to the adventures of bad girls whose pursuit of happiness swept them outside the bounds of social decency. Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Emma Bovary and Anna Karenina lived large in my imagination. The naughty girls of Hollywood films flirted and knew how to drive. Bharati Mukherjee drivechildimaginationhappiness People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools. Bodhidharma natureimaginationtimepeople I always know exactly where my stories take place, which gives me something certain so I can use my imagination for the other stuff. I worry though, who wants to keep reading stories about Kalamazoo? Bonnie Jo Campbell placemereadingimagination Reality has always been too small for the human imagination. We're always trying to transcend. Brenda Laurel smallimaginationtryingreality I learned in the computer game business early on that all senses are not equal. The best example is, you're listening to a radio play and you're driving down the road, and suddenly you realize you haven't seen the road in five minutes. It's because your visual cortex has been partying with your imagination, basically. Brenda Laurel bestyoubusinessimagination It's easier for me to write certain character types because of my own life experiences, but I find it too artistically limiting to only write about red-headed kids who grew up in small town Montana. That's really part of the fun of fantasy, I think. Our imagination is basically unlimited. Okay, that's a terrifying thing about fantasy, too. Brent Weeks meimaginationcharacterlife I believe that it's an author's job to cast his imagination into the far spaces. Your life should - and I think it's inescapable that it will - inform your work. I'm all for using anything that can make your art better, but your intuition should be an equal partner. Brent Weeks imaginationworklifeart As children, we have vivid imaginations. We stay up late waiting for Santa Claus, dream of becoming president, and have ideas that defy physics. Then something happens. As we grow older, we start editing our imagination. Brian Chesky growimaginationwaitingchildren I had a lot of funky things as a kid. I had dinosaurs and comic book stuff. I was eccentric; imagination drove my decor. Dinosaurs, for sure, were in there! Brian Tee thingskidimaginationbook One thinks of toys and play as an area of great novelty and potentiality where all sorts of responses can be developed. The fact that adults are allowing their imaginations to have activity through toy kinds of objects is a further reflection of the belief in the imagination of the adult mind. Brian Sutton-Smith greatimaginationreflectionmind Acting is an expression of imagination. No firsthand knowledge is necessary. Billy Crudup actingimaginationknowledge Poetry can do a lot of things to people. I mean it can improve your imagination. It can take you to new places. It can give you this incredible form of verbal pleasure. Billy Collins youpoetryimaginationpeople Science fiction is my way of pushing the imagination onward. It's a way to understand how the world will look in the future. Bernard Werber lookfutureimaginationscience I guess something that I've noticed from American acts who had success in touring is more of an explanation as to their music. Which is I think quite funny. I think British acts might like to leave more to the imagination - maybe a bit more obscure perhaps - a bit more shy. Ben Lovett musicimaginationsuccessfunny I am more connected to the world of the imagination, but you don't have to have polio to do that. Ben Lewin i-amyouimaginationworld I'm nosey, and I have a great imagination. So it's not necessarily things I have to go through, but it's things people I know or my family is going through, and I hear about it, and I think, 'That sounds like a great song.' Becky G familyimaginationsongpeople Good luck dragging me into a horror movie! I get so scared. It's an overactive imagination or something. Natalia Dyer goodmeluckimagination When I got large enough to go to work, while employed I was reflecting on many things that would present themselves to my imagination; and whenever an opportunity occurred of looking at a book, when the school-children were getting their lessons, I would find many things that the fertility of my own imagination had depicted to me before. Nat Turner meimaginationworkopportunity The history of Guitar Hero is pretty spectacular. Really, I don't know of another franchise that has captured the imagination of the world so quickly and so powerfully and so positively in such a short period of time. Dan Rosensweig imaginationherotimehistory«182183184185186187188189190191192»
