Imagination quotes

“I hear noises and footsteps. I imagine things, that there are people over the house. I'm frightened, and of myself too.”
Ingrid Bergman - Paula Alquist

“At Kent, we take bed wetters and we turn them into men. So grow-up, Barclay, it's time to forget these fantasies of killer dolls.”
Dakin Matthews - Colonel Cochrane

“The wind is the moon's imagination wandering. It seeps through cracks, ripples the grass, explores the unknown. My love is my soul's imagination. How do I love you? Imagine.”
Saul Williams - Ray Joshua

“Imagine a life alien to yours. In which your memories were not your own, but those shared by every other of you kind. Imagine the torment of such an existence... no experiences to call your own.”

Richard O'Brien - Mr. Hand

“- Dr. Granada - Psychiatrist: You fell. You have a concussion. You were losing consciousness. Maybe what you thought was Eric catching you was a tree or a bush breaking your fall. Your mind could be playing tricks on you. It can do that.
- Milly: That's impossible.
- Dr. Granada - Psychiatrist: It's more possible than a boy who could fly.”
Louise Fletcher - Dr. Granada - Psychiatrist
Lucy Deakins - Milly

“- Katie: But there are no bloody ghosts here!
- Peter Plunkett: I know, but there will be. We'll invent them!”
Mary Coughlan - Katie
Peter O'Toole - Peter Plunkett

“- Kevin Dillon: It's the treasure, concealed in the slime of dragons.
- Maxwell Kane: It's a woman's purse, and it's covered with crap.”
Kieran Culkin - Kevin Dillon
Elden Henson - Maxwell Kane

“- Anne Shirley: I can't help flying up on the wings of anticipation. It's as glorious as soaring through a sunset... almost pays for the thud.
- Marilla Cuthbert: Well, maybe it does. But I'd rather walk calmly along and do without flying and thud.”
Megan Follows - Anna Shirley Cuthbert
Colleen Dewhurst - Marilla Cuthbert

“- Nick: This is a wonderful moment for me, Mr. Slater. I've never met a fictional character before. How new and exciting this must all be for you.
- Jack Slater: Hey, I just found out I was imaginary. I mean, how would you feel if somebody made you up? Your job, your marriage, your kids.”
Robert Prosky - Nick
Arnold Schwarzenegger - Jack Slater

“My son, Kevin, has been called names and made fun of his whole life. When you've been made fun of as much, you find another place to live, and he's found that place up here, in his mind.”
Sharon Stone - Gwen Dillon

“- Lawrence Bourne Jr: I must say it doesn't surprise me. You have been a constant disappointment to your mother and me ever since the day we brought you home from the orphanage.
- Lawrence Bourne III: Stop it, dad. You know I'm not adopted.
- Lawrence Bourne Jr: I know, but please, just allow me this little fantasy.”

George Plimpton - Lawrence Bourne Jr.
Tom Hanks - Lawrence Bourne III

“This will go far beyond every stretch of the imagination.”

Seamus O'Brien - Sardu

“His writing - in so many languages - made me a sign-post pointing east, west, north and south. I had shoes in German, stockings in French, gloves in Hebrew, a hat with a veil in Italian. He only kept me naked where I was most accustomed to wearing clothes.”
Vivian Wu - Nagiko

“I'm an engineer. I see what I see when I see it.”
John Wesley Shipp - Bastian's Father

“I believe a man lost in the mazes of his own mind may imagine that he's anything.”
Warren William - Dr. Lloyd

“- Ruth Matthews: Everybody goes off into their own worlds sometimes; I do!
- Jake Beerlander: Yes, of course we all do, but we come back.”
Kathleen Turner - Ruth Matthews
Tommy Lee Jones - Jake Beerlander

“I don't have a dad. I never did. I sprang full-blown from my mother's imagination.”
Jonah Blechman - Arthur Gayle

“The best weapon a woman has is a man's imagination.”
Maureen O'Sullivan - Jane

Oh! The theme I've been waiting for all my life. Listen to this sentence: "a Red Ryder BB gun with a compass in the stock, and this thing which tells time". Poetry. Sheer poetry, Ralph! An A+!

Tedde Moore - Miss Shields

“- Bastian's Father: I got a call from your mathteacher, yesterday. She says that you were drawing horses in your math book.
- Bastian: Unicorns. They were unicorns.
- Bastian's Father: What?
- Bastian: Nothing.”
Gerald McRaney - Bastian's Father
Barret Oliver - Bastian Balthazar Bux

“Past this tunnel is the rest of the world. What do you think the rest of the world looks like, Gnaghi? Can you imagine it?... You're right. It's beyond imagination.”
Rupert Everett - Francesco Dellamorte

“Imagine the future, Chains, 'cause you're not in it.”
Brian Bosworth - John Stone

“- Sally Salt: But why? Why?
- Hieronymus Karl Frederick Baron von Munchausen: Why, why, why! Because it's all logic and reason now. Science, progress, laws of hydraulics, laws of social dynamics, laws of this, that, and the other. No place for three-legged cyclops in the SouthSeas. No place for cucumber trees and oceans of wine. No place for me.”

Sarah Polley - Sally Salt
John Neville - Hieronymus Karl Frederick Baron von Munchausen

“There is no ocean, John. There is nothing beyond the city. The only place home exists... is in your head.”

Kiefer Sutherland - Dr. Schreber

“I hear the voices in my head.”
Béatrice Dalle - Betty