Famous Quotes
- Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.
- David Hume on Imagination
- Busted is not the ideal band I'd like to be in by any stretch of the imagination.
- Charlie Simpson on Imagination
- But I'm never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is. The limits of my imagination is the only thing that's gonna stop me.
- Abel Ferrara on Imagination
- But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.
- Karl Lagerfeld on Imagination
- But in a 24-hour day, the 25th hour is also the impossible hour, an hour that doesn't exist, that can only be created by the imagination.
- David Benioff on Imagination
- But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there.
- Roger McGuinn on Imagination
- But the greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out. You want the listener to find the song on their own. If you give too much away, it takes away from the imagination.
- Diana Krall on Imagination
- But there is so much more to do for the city we love... a Dallas with roads as strong as our businesses, parks as beautiful as our children, a downtown as tall as our imagination.
- Laura Miller on Imagination
- But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?
- James Thomson on Imagination
- By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.
- Dorthea Brande on Imagination
- Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
- Sun Tzu on Imagination
- 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 on Imagination
- Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
- Nadine Gordimer on Imagination
- Charles Laughton, who's a great hero of mine, only ever made one film and it happens to be one of the great films ever, which is 'The Night of the Hunter.' It's full of his kind of imagination and creation and how you do things and just in the way he used the studio, I just thought it was a fantastical way of using the studio.
- Brian Cox on Imagination
- Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.
- R. D. Laing on Imagination
- Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else.
- Vivien Leigh on Imagination
- Clearly, some creative thinking is badly needed if humans are to have a future beyond Earth. Returning to the Moon may be worthy and attainable, but it fails to capture the public's imagination. What does get people excited is the prospect of a mission to Mars.
- Paul Davies on Imagination
- Cooking with kids is not just about ingredients, recipes, and cooking. It's about harnessing imagination, empowerment, and creativity.
- Guy Fieri on Imagination
- Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.
- Ernest Hemingway on Imagination
- Cynicism and naivety lie cheek by jowl in the American imagination if the United States is one of the most venal nations on Earth, it is also one of the most earnestly idealistic.
- Terry Eagleton on Imagination
- Death is the tyrant of the imagination.
- Barry Cornwall on Imagination
- Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman on Imagination
- Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.
- Walt Disney on Imagination
- Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination do not become the slave of your model.
- Vincent Van Gogh on Imagination
- Doing 'White Collar,' quite often my character goes undercover, so therein lies the compounding of the imagination. I get to play Peter Burke and then someone else when Peter Burke goes undercover.
- Tim DeKay on Imagination
- Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.
- Franz Kafka on Imagination
- Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did.
- Eartha Kitt on Imagination
- Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.
- Frederick Henry Hedge on Imagination
- Ellis Peters's historical detail is very accurate and very minute, and therefore is not only interesting to read but good for an actor to acquire a sense of the period. And the other thing I think is that an actor lives in the land of imagination.
- Derek Jacobi on Imagination
- Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.
- William Warburton on Imagination
- Essentially, I'm untrained, so I just go with my imagination and try to put myself as solidly as I can into the shoes of whatever person I'm going to be playing.
- Christian Bale on Imagination
- Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin.
- William Robertson Smith on Imagination
- Every day the eye is subject to a thousand tiny shocks as a thousand industries compete for the eye-kick, the visual hook that will lock the consumer into product for that crucial second where the tiny - or not so tiny - leap of the imagination is made.
- Graham Joyce on Imagination
- Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
- John Dewey on Imagination
- Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.
- Stephen Covey on Imagination
- Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera, the whole exercise is about imagination. You're constantly depicting something that doesn't exist, and trying to find the reality of it. Once you settle on that premise, everything else is a matter of degrees.
- Ron Perlman on Imagination
- Every view, and every object I studied attentively, by viewing them again and again on every side, for I was anxious to make a lasting impression of it on my imagination.
- Karl Philipp Moritz on Imagination
- Everybody in their own imagination decides what scary is.
- Yvonne Craig on Imagination
- Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
- Joseph Addison on Imagination
- Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.
- Christina Ricci on Imagination
- Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.
- Kate Atkinson on Imagination
- Faith is spiritualized imagination.
- Henry Ward Beecher on Imagination
- Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.
- Helen Rowland on Imagination
- Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison on Imagination
- Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.
- Mason Cooley on Imagination
- Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.
- Louis Aragon on Imagination
- Few people have the imagination for reality.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe on Imagination
- Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
- Jessamyn West on Imagination
- First comes thought then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
- Napoleon Hill on Imagination
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