Quotes about Imagination

The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation.

We can imagine a world at peace, a planet healed, and all sentient beings happy.

Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.

Nothing is what rocks dream about

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness…

The devotee of myth is in a way a philosopher, for myth is made up of things that cause wonder.

But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger.

Please leave me alone; let me go on to the stars.

Das Leben ist unendlich seltsamer als alles, was der menschliche Geist erfinden könnte.

After all, important fresh evidence is a two-edged thing, and may possibly cut in a very different direction to that which Lestrade imagines. Take your breakfast, Watson, and we will go out together and see what we can do. I feel as if I shall need your company and your moral support today.

Commandments are the railroad tracks on which the life empowered by the love of God poured into the heart by the Holy Spirit runs. Love empowers the engine; law guides the direction. They are mutually interdependent. The notion that love can operate apart from law is a figment of the imagination. It is not only bad theology; it is poor psychology. It has to borrow from law to give eyes to love.

Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard. What you've really got to do is focus on learning as much about life, and about various aspects of it first.