Imagination Quotes

Never forget that the key to the situation lies in the will and not in the imagination.

Evelyn Underhill

There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.

Edith Wharton

I'm not such a fan of imagination. If you're alive to details, they oftentimes suggest a richer or deeper imaginative line than you would have imagined.

Edmund White

The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.

Edmund Wilson

The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.

Edmund Wilson

Some stories are true that never happened.

Elie Wiesel

I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose.

Elinor Wylie

My proudest moment was probably when my oldest boy finished law school and went on to become an FBI agent. It was just beyond my imagination that - with my background - my own son would become an FBI agent.

Frank Abagnale

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

Franklin Pierce Adams

Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.

Felix Bloch

It takes no imagination to live within your means.

Francis Ford Coppola

I have more of a vivid imagination than I have talent. I cook up ideas. It's just a characteristic.

Francis Ford Coppola

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

Frank Capra

I like photographs which leave something to the imagination.

Fay Godwin

A child who has never fantasized about having other parents is seriously lacking in imagination.

Fred G. Gosman

Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.

Frederick Henry Hedge

Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.

Franz Kafka

One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Self-awareness is not the same thing as self-approval, any more than imagination is the same thing as day-dreaming.

Francis Spufford

I try to decorate my imagination as much as I can.

Franz Schubert

Only in your imagination can you revise.

Fay Wray