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It is through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others.

Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.

He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.

The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.

I write from my imagination, not from what I have read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about.

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.

I do not like this idea of Method. I come from that school, but what I was taught was that it is your imagination. You do your homework, and you use your imagination.

The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we are disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning.

I still have a photo on my wall of the greatest idol I will ever have in my life, and it is myself at eight. Because that is when the forces of imagination have the same value as the real world, when they are an instrument of survival: when my mother disappeared, and I imagined a mother. That was me at my best.

I like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construction of the monster and usually that is in the world of the supernatural or the world of the fantastic, so that is why those kinds of stories about demons and the supernatural appeal to me or maybe I am really interested in that subject.

Our imagination just needs space. It is all it needs, that moment where you just sort of stare into the distance where your brain gets to sort of somehow rise up.

One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We are not scientists. We do not always have to make the logical, reasonable leap.

I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I am likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination.

The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.

I am an emotional sort of person in general and I have a vivid imagination, so I feel the whole spectrum of emotion strongly when I write.

Ultimately, so much Dr. Seuss is about empowerment. He invites us to disappear into our imagination and then blows the doors off what that can mean.

I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination.

I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.

There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.

There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.