Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ian Mcewan

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.

Hugh Howey

I'd rather excite the imagination of a legion of readers and make pennies from each of them than hold off for a larger chunk of change from only a handful of fans.

Homer

Without question it may be said of Vancouver that her position, geographically, is Imperial to a degree, that her possibilities are enormous, and that with but a feeble stretch of the imagination those possibilities might wisely be deemed certainties.

Annabeth Gish

I am pretty scare-able. I guess that is why I like doing horror because my imagination can take me places.

Eoin Colfer

You know you're in trouble when your own imagination starts punishing you.

Javier Bardem

I was raised not to be afraid to show emotion or imagination.

Jasper Fforde

Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.

Jason Silva

Imagination allows us to conceive of delightful future possibilities, pick the most amazing one, and pull the present forward to meet it.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Any person with any imagination is bound to be afraid.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

You're a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in this world, your imagination.

Evan Esar

Common sense is usually lack of imagination, and imagination is usually lack of common sense.

Eugene Delacroix

Even when we look at nature, our imagination constructs the picture.

Eugene Delacroix

The source of genius is imagination alone.

Isabelle Eberhardt

The savage hatred I feel for crowds is getting worse, natural enemies that they are of imagination and of thought.

Imelda Staunton

Agents and producers have to get you into a box to accommodate their limited imaginations.

Jack Prelutsky

Then I decided to draw from and on my own imagination, and everything came out perfect.

J. C. Ryle

Imagination is the hotbed where this sin is too often hatched. Guard your thoughts, and there will be little fear about your actions.

Isaac Watts

Study detains the mind by the perpetual occurrence of something new, which may gratefully strike the imagination.

Isabel Allende

if we don't begin by imagining the perfect society, how shall we create one?

By no measure of the imagination did we have joint defenses.

Hannah More

Imagination frames events unknown, In wild, fantastic shapes of hideous ruin, And what it fears creates.

Hannah More

To hint at a fault does more mischief than speaking out; for whatever is left for the imagination to finish will not fail to be overdone ...

Hannah More

eternity is a depth which no geometry can measure, no arithmetic calculate, no imagination conceive, no rhetoric describe.

Harry Connick, Jr.

With imagination, I'll get there.

Stevie Jackson

I like the notion of making stuff up or letting your imagination go away with you.

Michael Beck

I often wonder why people remake movies. Is there just a lack of imagination out there that they can't come up with an original idea?

Adam Savage

I reject your reality and substitute it for my own.

J. J. Abrams

I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations.

J. G. Ballard

The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.

It is our imagination that transforms itself into reality, through our physical strength and endeavours.

Samuel Johnson

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

Matt Reeves

It's the idea that anticipation is as scary as anything in a movie could be. People's imagination is the most effective tool in creating terror or dread.

Madeleine L'Engle

It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the hem of truth.