Imagination quotes

“Do you want to know why most people live and die without accomplishing a single damn thing? It’s because they’ve lost their imaginations. They’ll complacently waste their entire lives unashamed of the fact that all they’ll ever add to the world is shit. Such people are little more than cattle. They can’t even comprehend greatness, not even when...” (continue)(continue reading)
Tsuguo Mogami - Keith Shardis

“There is little chance for a person to exercise the imagination today in this complex, programmed society we have.”
Peter Cushing

“You know what I do when I think I can't stand another minute cooped up? I think myself outside.”
Millie Perkins - Anne Frank

“You are as abandoned and noisy as any character in a porn film, Laura. You are Ian's plaything, responding to his touch with shrieks of orgasmic delight. No woman in the history of the world is having better sex than the sex you are having with Ian... in my head.”

John Cusack - Rob Gordon

“Have you any idea why a raven is like a writing desk?”
Johnny Depp - The Mad Hatter

“- The Childlike Empress: Bastian. Why don't you do what you dream, Bastian?
- Bastian: But I can't, I have to keep my feet on the ground!
- The Childlike Empress: Call my name. Bastian, please! Save us!
- Bastian: All right! I'll do it! I'll save you! I will do what I dream!”
Tami Stronach - The Childlike Empress
Barret Oliver - Bastian Balthazar Bux

“While the sciences are hugely important, let us not leave behind a child's imagination.”
Kevin Spacey

“One of the tools that an actor has - and it's a trite thing, but you can really use it a lot - is imagination.”
Ed Lauter

“There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.”
Eddie Marsan

“- Skip Winkley: Who is your biggest sexual fantasy?
- Barney's Waiter: Denzel Washington.
- Jeffrey: The guy at the gym.
- Sterling: Yoko Ono. ...To see the apartment!”
Robert Klein - Skip Winkley
K. Todd Freeman - Barney's Waiter
Steven Weber - Jeffrey
Sir Patrick Stewart - Sterling

“If a guy's close to you, you can't slight 'im. You can't slight that guy. A real grievance can be resolved; differences can be resolved. But an imaginary hurt, a slight - that motherfucker gonna hate you 'til the day he dies.”
Jack Nicholson - James R. Hoffa

“Ariel, please! Will you get your head out of the clouds and back in the water where it belongs?”
Kenneth Mars - Triton

“Every word is part of a picture. Every sentence is a picture. All you do, is let your imagination connect them together. If you have an imagination that is.”

Kieran Culkin - Kevin Dillon

“- Alice: Hatter, why is a raven like a writing desk?
- Mad Hatter: I haven't the slightest idea.”
Mia Wasikowska - Alice in Wondeland
Johnny Depp - The Mad Hatter

“Gray, you know that in view of all this, you know that there's a lot of speculation that this woman is a figment of your imagination. That you created her, from a lot of different sources.”

Edwin Newman - Edwin Newman

“- Harold Grisham: Okay... here's what I want. First we both get naked.
- Vicki: So far so good.
- Harold Grisham: Except... we're both wearing sailor hats. Then we get into a jacuzzi filled with Pepto-Bismol, I clip your toenails, and you shave my buttocks.
- Vicki: Pardon me?
- Harold Grisham: Naked, Jacuzzi, Pepto-Bismol, toenails, shave my...” (continue)(continue reading)

Dave Thomas - Harold Grisham
Brandy Ledford - Vicky

“It is the worst kind of yellowness to be so scared of yourself that you put blindfolds on rather than deal with yourself. To face ourselves - that's the hard thing. The imagination - that's God's gift, to make the act of self-examination bearable.”
Will Smith - Paul

“The truth is sometimes things aren't exactly what you always imagined... they're even better!”
Amanda Bynes - Daphne Reynolds

“- Edward Linney: When you came in... I thought I was hallucinating again.
- Darby Shaw: I'm sorry.
- Edward Linney: Oh no, I'll take a hallucination like that, anytime.”
Peter Carlin - Edward Linney
Julia Roberts - Darby Shaw

“In all my science fiction movies, I try to blend the familiar with the futuristic.”
David Twohy

“- Dr. Grant: I have a theory that there are two kinds of boys. There are those that want to be astronomers, and those that want to be astronauts. The astronomer, or the paleontologist, gets to study these amazing things from a place of complete safety.
- Erik: But then you never get to go into space.
- Dr. Grant: Exactly. That's the difference...” (continue)(continue reading)

Sam Neill - Dr. Alan Grant
Trevor Morgan - Eric Kirby

“Imagination is its own form of courage.”
Kevin Spacey - Francis Underwood

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”

Mandy Patinkin - Jason Gideon

“Sometimes it's the very people who no one imagines anything of who do the things no one can imagine.”
Jack Bannon - Christopher Morcom

“You know the most wonderful part of thinking yourself outside. You can have it any way you like. You can have rows of roses and violets all blooming in the same season, isn't that wonderful!”
Millie Perkins - Anne Frank