When I was on my own in a hotel room in Romania, I had the imagination to keep myself occupied. – Rhona Mitra
Vision – It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own. – Robert Collier
We also maintain – again with perfect truth – that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination. – Richard Le Gallienne
You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can’t imagine something that has never existed before, it’s impossible. – Rita Dove
I don’t think that people should wear dresses two sizes too small. I just think that sexiness is better left to the imagination. It’s just more tasteful. – Rachel Zoe
A place makes a deep impression on you when you’re young. It lives with you. It’s like your childhood. It fertilises the imagination. – Richard Eyre
What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry. – Salman Rushdie
The gift of a writer as good as Dickens is not to explain everything; that way, the reader has, in terms of their imagination, somewhere to go. – Ronald Frame
Anything that stimulates the public’s imagination about the nobility and the importance of space exploration is something that I’m very excited to be a part of. – Ron Howard
Um I’m an educator. I’m a motivator of people. I excite their imaginations. – Ricky Gervais As David Brent, in The Office (UK).
We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts. – Ray Bradbury
He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts. – Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Who cares about the men who steered your breakfast cereal through winter storms? How ironic that the more ships have grown in size and consequence, the less space they take up in our imagination. – Rose George
As a writer, I’m convinced that encouraging children to write fiction, to hook into that marvelous machine called the imagination, has to be good for everyone. – Rodman Philbrick
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I don’t need a fantasy life as once I did. That is the life of the imagination that I had a great need for. Films were the perfect means for satisfying that need. – Olivia De Havilland
I love sci-fi because it leads in the imagination, and I always say it has the most intelligent fans in the world. – Robert Carlyle
Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that. – R. D. Laing
I believe that we have the ability to change our lives using our imaginations. Imagination is a muscle – the more you use it, the stronger it gets. – Rodman Philbrick
Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it’s a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you’re not playing yourself. – Ralph Fiennes
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we’re disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning. – Richard Powers
Imagination is Reality Lite – a useful substitute when the real pleasure is inaccessible, too risky, or too much work. – Paul Bloom
Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don’t have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere. – Ray Bradbury
I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting. – Robert Falcon Scott
I don’t actually like explaining the meanings of my songs, because I think people can take away more from it if they use their imagination. – Reeve Carney
Growing up, I had a very vivid imagination and Leonardo was like my best imaginary friend that I spoke to. When things were tough, or I was scared in an unsafe environment, I always imagined that the Ninja Turtles would come to the rescue. – Ruby Rose