Imagination quotes

“I loved, helped, and supported in every way possible a businessman who committed the terrible crime of being financially imaginative with a pension fund.”
Tracey Ullman - Beth Hobbs

“It's time you learn, Sara Crewe, that real life has nothing to do with your little fantasy games. It's a cruel, nasty world out there and it's our duty to make the best of it - not to indulge in ridiculous dreams, but to be productive and useful!”
Eleanor Bron - Miss Minchin

“What does it do to us, Wally, living in an environment where something as massive as the seasons or winter or cold, don't in any way affect us? I mean, were animals after all. I mean... what does that mean? I think that means that instead of living under the sun and the moon and the sky and the stars, we're living in a fantasy world of our own...” (continue)(continue reading)
Himself - Andre Gregory

“Bastian made many other wishes, and had many other amazing adventures - before he finally returned to the ordinary world. But that's... another story.”
Alan Oppenheimer - Narrator

“- Jack Deebs: I'm a cartoonist. I drew all this. I have visions. I translate this.
- Frank Harris: You do nothing, man. This place exists with or without you. You believe me, right? I'm not one of your creations.
- Jack Deebs: Right. You're not pretty enough.”
Gabriel Byrne - Jack Deebs
Brad Pitt - Detective Frank Harris

“- George Newman: You know what? Nobody in this small town appreciates a guy with a good imagination.
- Bob Steckler: Well, maybe not the people at the lumber yard, or the miniature golf course, or Floyd's Fish Market, or any of the other places you worked in the last... month.”
Weird Al - George Newman
David Bowe - Bob Steckler

My dog barks, some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have not told you the type of dog which I have. Perhaps you might even picture Toto from "the wizard of Oz". But I can tell you, my dog is always with me. Afr!
Jack Nance - OO Spool

“From here on out, I am only interested in what is real. Real people, real feelings, that's it, that's all I'm interested in.”
Billy Crudup - Russell Hammond

“- Flik: Here, pretend - pretend that that's a seed.
- Dot: It's a rock.
- Flik: Oh, I know it's a rock, I know. But let's just pretend for a minute that it's a seed, alright? We'll just use our imaginations. Now, now do you see our tree? Everything that made that giant tree is already contained inside this tiny little seed. All it needs is some...” (continue)(continue reading)
Dave Foley - Flik
Hayden Panettiere - Dot

“- Princess Irene: She's here somewhere. She... she's just invisible at the moment.
- Curdie: Your grandmother is invisible?
- Princess Irene: Yes. But she is here, I know she is.
- Curdie: I'm glad you rescued me, but I dont' have time to play games.”

Sally Ann Marsh - Princess Irene
Peter Murray - Curdie

“- Milburn Drysdale: Son, I want you to close your eyes for a minute. Now, imagine I've taken away your allowance, your cellphone, your car and cut you out of my will. How do you see your future?
- Morgan Drysdale: Flipping frozen cow parts at Burger King?
- Milburn Drysdale: And people say you're stupid.”
Dabney Coleman - Milburn Drysdale
Kevin Connolly - Morgan Drysdale

“I'd been thinkin' about Mars when there wasn't no Mars.”
Jack Nicholson - Art Land

“- Assistant Headmaster Steve Muller: Oh, Kathryn...
- Kathryn: Please be quiet, I'm trying to imagine I'm with someone attractive.”
Jonathan Potts - Assistant Headmaster Steve Muller
Amy Adams - Kathryn Merteuil

“Wouldn't it be cool to screw in the principal's bedroom?”
Tara Strong - Carla Morgan

“- Mike: I want to stop him.
- Reggie: The Tall Man? That story about me blowing up my own house because it was infested with midgets. Mike, that wasn't real. Your doctor said that it was your own paranoid delusions caused by your brother's death.”
James Le Gros - Mike
Reggie Bannister - Reggie

“I have this image of you - inside of me - like a part of me.”

Jennifer Tilly - Violet

Think of being curled up and floating in the darkness. Even if you could think, even if you had an imagination, would you ever imagine its opposite, this miraculous world? The Asian Taoists called it "10,000 Things". And if the darkness just got darker and then you were dead, what would you care? How would you even know the difference?
Billy Crudup - FH

“The other places are like kindergardens compared with this. It smells so incredibly evil! I didn't think such a place existed except in my own imagination. It has a ghastly familiarity like a half-remembered dream. Anything could happen here... any moment...”
Gene Tierney - Poppy

“- Brad Brown: Did you see that meteor?
- Jay Brown: I saw something.
- Brad Brown: Maybe it's a Russian spy probe on some sort of secret mission.
- Jay Brown: I think you watch too much TV.”
Scott Grimes - Brad Brown
M. Emmet Walsh - Jay Brown

“What a vivid imagination.”

Harrison Ford - Indiana Jones

I believe the imagination is the passport that we create to help take us into the real world. I believe the imagination is merely another phrase for what is most uniquely us. Jung says, "The greatest sin is to be unconscious".
Will Smith - Paul

“The imagination. It's there to sort out your nightmare, to show you the exit from the maze of your nightmare, to transform the nightmare into dreams, that become your bedrock. If we do not listen to that voice, it dies, it shrivels, it vanishes. The imagination is not our escape. On the contrary, the imagination is the place we are all trying to...” (continue)(continue reading)
Will Smith - Paul

“Now I know why I have always lost women to guys like you. I mean, it's not just the uniform. It's the stories that you tell. So much fun and imagination.”

Bill Murray - John

“- Col. Nick Alexander: Did anyone ever tell you that you have beautiful legs?
- Bartender: Oh, Nick! You can't see them from here.
- Col. Nick Alexander: No, but I do have a good imagination. Actually I'm just trying to be nice.”
Lee Marvin - Col. Nick Alexander
Elki Jacobs - Bartender

“Your reality is already half video hallucination. If you're not careful, it will become total hallucination. You'll have to learn to live in a very strange new world.”

Jack Creley - Brian O'Blivion