Because some of my at-home life was rough and lonely, I often looked to escape into my imagination. Science fiction provided a deep well to pull from and was something easily accessible to me.

— Keahu Kahuanui

Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.

— Edward Abbey

Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.

— William Irwin Thompson

Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.

— Ray Bradbury

Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

— Bryan Procter

Dolls fire our collective imagination, for better and - too often - for worse. From life-size dolls the same height as the little girls who carry them, to dolls whose long hair can 'grow' longer, to Barbie and her fashionable sisters, dolls do double duty as child's play and the focus of adult art and adult fear.

— Ellen Datlow

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

— John Dewey

Faith is spiritualized imagination.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.

— Helen Rowland

Films are dreams. Many, many critics say to me that my films are not good because they are too unbelievable, but this is my style. I tell stories like they are dreams. This is my imagination. For me, it would be impossible to do a film that is so precise, that resembles real life.

— Dario Argento