Famous Quotes & Sayings

Christopher Fowler

For me, imagination would always provide a means of escape.

Jacques Lipchitz

Imagination is a very precise thing, you know-it is not fantasy; the man who invented the wheel while he was observing another man walking-that is imagination!

Michael O'Brien

Imagination is a screen onto which the evil spirits can 'project' images, temptations presented as stimulating entertainments, offering us pleasurable rewards if we give in to the temptation.

Bryan Cranston

The imagination is part of the arsenal that actors draw from.

James Hillman

Of course, a culture as manically and massively materialistic as ours creates materialistic behavior in its people, especially in those people who've been subjected to nothing but the destruction of imagination that this culture calls education, the destruction of autonomy it calls work, and the destruction of activity it calls entertainment.

Jane Levy

Your imagination is your most important tool, as an actor, as cheesy as that sounds.

Ethan Hawke

Well, there's a great Marlon Brando quote that to do something well you have to spiritually marry your director. You have to be making the same movie they are in that you have to try to help their imagination be better, and more full, and more fully realized, but you can't have a different imagination because then you end up - and you see this a lot in movies - where it feels like they were making five different films.

Ernest Dimnet

Prejudices subsist in people's imagination long after they have been destroyed by their experience.

Ewan McGregor

Everything you do on set is directly related to your imagination when you read the script for the first time.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.

Jim Butcher

Magic is a kind of energy. It is given shape by human thoughts and emotions, by imagination. Thoughts define that shape—and words help to define those thoughts. That’s why wizards usually use words to help them with their spells. Words provide a sort of insulation as the energy of magic burns through a spell caster’s mind.

Jesse Ventura

I tend to like to read history - recent history, because I find that much more intriguing than just a writer's imagination.

H. P. Lovecraft

The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from everyday life.

Jay McInerney

Mine is not an autonomous imagination.

Muriel Rukeyser

Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling . . .. A fine poem will seize your imagination intellectually-that is, when you reach it, you will reach it intellectually too- but the way is through emotion, through what we call feeling.

Mo Rocca

A young imagination is bold, likes to make bigger leaps. It likes to, well, imagine that the dustbuster is a dinosaur; that the computer mouse is a hotrod; that the box is a cave; that the rawhide is a torch... or a baton... or something.

Julia Child

The more you know, the more you can create. There's no end to imagination in the kitchen.

J. K. Rowling

Extraordinary imagination, especially in a witch world. Also friendship.

J. K. Rowling

Imagination is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

J. K. Rowling

Imagination is ... the foundation of all invention and innovation.

Grace Lin

Your imagination will create many friends

Gary Hamel

For every person who can imagine a possibility there are tens of thousands who are stuck in the greased grooves of history.

Gary Hamel

The problem is not one of prediction. It is one of imagination.

Gary Hamel

Never before has the gap between what we can imagine and what we can accomplish been smaller.

Georgia O'Keeffe

Imagination makes you see all sorts of things.

Jess Walter

Life, he thought, is a blatant act of imagination.

Slim Thug

I don't let my imagination run wild when I rap.

Henry David Thoreau

I do not know how to distinguish between our waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?

Hugo Pratt

For me, my travels have been the chance to go to a place that already exists in my imagination.

Howard Schultz

If it Captures Your Imagination, it will captivate others.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are never either so fortunate or so misfortunate as we imagine.

Ian Mcewan

I've always thought cruelty is a failure of imagination.

Ian Mcewan

Politics is the enemy of the imagination.