I remember being so homesick and realizing that where I came from was not something that existed in the cultural imagination outside the city. People used to think Miami was just partying in South Beach all the time.

- Jennine Capó Crucet

One my favorite things is to go to the provinces of Russia and see the 18th century wood churches with the onion dome architecture. These humble wonders of incredible imagination of architects that were obviously not living in places like Paris or London, but they've created these amazing churches.

- Andre Leon Talley

There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.

- Jonas Salk

Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.

- Jonas Salk

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

- Ray Bradbury

Imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you.

- Hilary Mantel

Ghost stories really scare me. I have such a big imagination that after I watch a horror movie like 'The Grudge', I look in the corners of my room for the next two days.

- Vanessa Hudgens

Science is imagination in the service of the verifiable truth, and that service is indeed communal. It cannot be rigidly planned. Rather, it requires freedom and courage and the plural contributions of many different kinds of people who must maintain their individuality while giving to the group.

- Gerald Edelman

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

- Leonardo da Vinci

When you're starting off as a young writer, you look at all the stuff that's gone before and the stuff that's influenced you, and you reach the ladle of your imagination into this bubbling stew pot of all of this stuff, and you pour it out. And that's where you start from.

- Neil Gaiman