It was like there was a pile of kindling that was in the back of my imagination just waiting there. Once I lit it, it just flared up and I kept getting ideas and ideas. – Kevin J. Anderson
We especially need imagination in science. – Maria Mitchell
Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction. – Yann Martel
Never forget that the key to the situation lies in the will and not in the imagination. – Evelyn Underhill
Imagination comes of not having things. – LeRoy Neiman
Sometimes a technology is so awe-inspiring that the imagination runs away with it – often far, far away from reality. Robots are like that. A lot of big and ultimately unfulfilled promises were made in robotics early on, based on preliminary successes. – Daniel H. Wilson
We forget that what matters begins with the imagination. – Terry Brooks
I want to kick-start your imagination and let you discover the places it can take you. – Terry Brooks
Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper! – George William Curtis
I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination. – Cornelia Funke
Just about this time, when in imagination I was so great a warrior, I had good use in real life for more strength, as I was no longer taken to school by the nurse, but instead had myself to protect my brother, two years my junior. – Georg Brandes
Only in your imagination can you revise. – Fay Wray
The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in favor of Atlanta University so about the last of September I bade farewell to the friends and scenes of my boyhood and boarded a train for the South. – James Weldon Johnson
You have to just go with your imagination, where your instinct takes you. – Peter Mullan
Well, the fact is that one imagination is critically important, and if you have had your imagination stimulated by what is basically a variety of subjects, you are much more amenable to accepting, to understanding and interacting with the realities of the world. – Ashley Judd
The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience – anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form. – Carol Ann Duffy
President Reagan was a leader at a time when the American people most needed leadership. He outlined a vision that captured the imagination of the free world, a vision that toppled the Communist empire and freed countless millions. – Dennis Hastert
So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear. – Diana Krall
It is not enough to know your craft – you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more. – Edouard Manet
I mean, the most important thing to me is imagination. – Rob Walton
