Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lynne Truss

Writers and painters alike are in the business of consulting their own imaginations, and stimulating the imaginations of others. Together, and separately, they celebrate the absolute mystery of otherness.

Lynne Truss

Manners are about imagination, ultimately. They are about imagining being the other person.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

But was anything in life, Anne asked herself wearily, like one's imagination of it?

Lucy Maud Montgomery

It's delightful when your imaginations come true, isn't it?

Louis Sullivan

The architect who combines in his being the powers of vision, of imagination, of intellect, of sympathy with human need and the power to interpret them in a language vernacular and time--- is he who shall create poems in stone.

Jonah Lehrer

The imagination is unleashed by constraints. You break out of the box by stepping into shackles.

Jon Stewart

There's nothing like a shipwreck to spark the imagination of everyone who was not on that specific ship.

Joyce Carol Oates

Obviously the imagination is fueled by emotions beyond the control of the conscious mind.

Joyce Carol Oates

Childhood is the province of the imagination and when I immerse myself in it, I re-create it as it was, as it could have been, as I wanted - and didn't want - it to be.

Katee Sackhoff

Part of what I love about television is that my imagination gets to keep going. It doesn't stop.

Patty Duke

I have been afraid all my life that I am going to die. All my life it has been stuffed in my imagination

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

Paul Tagliabue

The Super Bowl now takes on a magnitude that almost defies the imagination.

Meher Baba

illusion throughout is illusion. There is no end to it, just as there is no end to imagination.

Meher Baba

Who says God has created this world? We have created it by our own imagination.

Peter Weir

It doesn't take any imagination at all to feel awed

Peter Mullan

You have to just go with your imagination, where your instinct takes you.

Peter Ackroyd

Under the force of the imagination, nature itself is changed.

Peter Shaffer

You never quite know what's going to strike your imagination, or something that won't going to leave you alone, not going to leave alone, and this was one for me.

R. A. Salvatore

I loved the world of imagination.

Pol Pot

The sick are victims of their own imagination.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Keep the imagination sane--that is one of the truest conditions of communion with heaven.

Elliot Perlman

Perhaps people ought to feel with more imagination.

Joan Chen

I grew up in Honolulu. It's not the ballet cultural mecca by any stretch of the imagination. People are much more familiar with hula than they are with ballet.

John D. MacDonald

We have been endowed with the capacity and the power to create desirable pictures within and to find them automatically in the outer world of our environment.

Lionel Trilling

Unless we insist that politics is imagination and mind, we will learn that imagination and mind are politics, and of a kind we will not like.

Leo Tolstoy

I love her not with my mind or my imagination, but with my whole being. Loving her I feel myself to be an integral part of all God's joyous world.

Larry Niven

In the world of words the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

Lewis Carroll

Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.

Joseph Heller

I don't understand the process of imagination-though I know that I am very much at its mercy.

Minnie Maddern Fiske

...an actor is exactly as big as his imagination.

Pete Hamill

For those without money, the road to the treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library.

Phylicia Rashad

Let me just say that to imagine racism does not exist is imagination. And to imagine that it does not create its own set of problems is true imagination. So let's not imagine that racism is gone, extinguished, because it's not. We are seeing this in the top levels of the political arena, and we are seeing it very, very plainly.