“Someone once said that history has more imagination than all the scenario writers in the Pentagon, and we have a lot of scenario writers here. No one ever wrote a scenario for commercial airliners crashing into the World Trade Center.”
Imagination is where every invention, artwork, and act of rebellion started. These quotes celebrate the ability to see what does not yet exist and the courage it takes to bring it into the world, even when people call you crazy.
“It takes no imagination to live within your means.”
“Someone once said that history has more imagination than all the scenario writers in the Pentagon, and we have a lot of scenario writers here. No one ever wrote a scenario for commercial airliners crashing into the World Trade Center.”
“Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.”
“I had a pretty sexual imagination for a kid.”
“The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.”
“My imagination, my ability to understand the way love and people grow over time, how passion can surprise and renew, utterly failed me.”
“Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.”
“Some stories are true that never happened.”
“You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.”
“What does it mean to be Catholic and not a Catholic? I feel adrift, homeless. My Catholic imagination allows me to see the soul as a lit breath, seeking the divine. It persists.”
“Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.”
“Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.”
“Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.”
“Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.”
“One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.”
“Reading a hard copy book, and reading a book on an iPad are slightly different experiences. What they both have in common though is that you must engage your imagination in the process.”