In those days, it didn't take much imagination to come up with something that required great lyric development skills. You just thought of an experience that you might have gone through, and write it down. Phil Harris
I grew up in the '80s where there's a lot of these kind of post-apocalyptic, post-comet, post-whatever it was, so that always captured my imagination a lot as a little kid, that idea of getting access to secret places and being able to roam around where you're not supposed to. Gillian Flynn
Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience. Carl Clinton Van Doren
The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society. Edmund Wilson
The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination. Edmund Wilson
My best investment is my imagination, because it has never failed to bring me my greatest returns! Randy Castillo
I never had the financial means that the media said I had. I laugh when I hear the amounts, $400 million, $800 million. Where do they get this imagination? Jean Claude Duvalier
Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success on the stage. Ellen Terry
The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized. Mary Richards
I didn't have the equipment for the regular world of being a lawyer. I didn't have the imagination for that. I did have a funny kind of ambition, but I didn't know where to put it. Michael Lindsay-Hogg
There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination. Eddie Marsan
Heaven knows, I've exposed myself in my novels through the use of fantasy and imagination... now my new book is about what really happened to me... not my heroines. Judith Krantz
The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination. Alexander Cockburn
I don't actually like explaining the meanings of my songs, because I think people can take away more from it if they use their imagination. Reeve Carney
I think if you're a competent actor with a good imagination, and if it's on the page, it makes your job a lot easier. Miguel Ferrer
For me, my travels have been the chance to go to a place that already exists in my imagination. Hugo Pratt
His imagination conceived and bore - worlds but nothing in these worlds became alive until he discovered its true and living name. The name was the breath of life and, sooner or later, he invariably found it. Algernon H. Blackwood
I'm kind of surprised that so many of those other books were almost exactly like mine. They even follow the form. There were some books that even copied the stamp. It shows so little imagination. Don Novello