Famous Quotes & Sayings

Werner Herzog

Coincidences always happen if you keep your mind open, while storyboards remain the instruments of cowards who do not trust in their own imagination and who are slaves of a matrix If you get used to planning your shots based solely on aesthetics, you are never that far from kitsch.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Genius must have talent as its complement and implement, just as in like manner imagination must have fancy. In short, the higher intellectual powers can only act through a corresponding energy of the lower.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

But oh! each visitation Suspends what nature gave me any my birth, My shaping spirit of Imagination.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.

Salman Rushdie

Few topographical boundaries can rival the frontiers of the mind.

Ryan Reynolds

For the most part Hollywood is a world of imagination.

Wayne McGregor

My influences change all the time; they have to remain current, because they're the things that capture your imagination and make you want to go into the studio.

Van Morrison

The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Truth is a matter of the imagination.

Ursula K. Le Guin

There's a great fear of the imagination. It's a dangerous thing. It's out of control, it's subversive.

Tycho Brahe

Now it is quite clear to me that there are no solid spheres in the heavens, and those that have been devised by the authors to save the appearances, exist only in the imagination.

Stella Adler

One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap.

Thomas Harris

Fear comes with imagination, it’s a penalty, it’s the price of imagination.

Thomas B. Macaulay

This is the highest miracle of genius, that things which are not should be as though they were, that the imaginations of one mind should become the personal recollections of another.

Thomas B. Macaulay

If ever Shakespeare rants, it is not when his imagination is hurrying him along, but when he is hurrying his imagination along.

Thomas B. Macaulay

Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularity is indispensable to the creations of the imagination.

Tim Berners-Lee

When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination.

Geraldine Brooks

The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known, using that as scaffolding, and then letting imagination build the structure that fills in those things we can never find out for sure.

Horace

I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby to learn to express them with truth.

Henry David Thoreau

We should endeavor practically in our lives to correct all the defects which our imagination detects.

Henry David Thoreau

The most stupendous scenery ceases to be sublime when it becomes distinct, or in other words limited, and the imagination is no longer encouraged to exaggerate it. The actual height and breadth of a mountain or a waterfall are always ridiculously small; they are the imagined only that content us.

Henry David Thoreau

We can conceive of nothing more fair than something which we have experienced.

Henry David Thoreau

The imagination never forgets; it is a re-membering. It is not foundationless, but most reasonable, and it alone uses all the knowledge of the intellect.

Jean Genet

The force of what was called Panther rhetoric or word mongering resided not in elegant discourse but in strength of affirmation (or denial), in anger of tone and timbre. When the anger led to action there was no turgidity or over-emphasis. Anyone who has witnessed political rows among the Whites will have to admit that the Whites aren't overburdened with poetic imagination.

Jean Toomer

We do not posses imagination enough to sense what we are missing.

Jean de La Fontaine

Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.

Jerome K. Jerome

I should never make anything of a fisherman. I had not got sufficient imagination

Jeffrey Eugenides

Every novelist should possess a hermaphroditic imagination.

The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesnt enter into it.

James Cameron

It's about human imagination and curiosity. What's out there? What's in the great beyond? What exists at levels we can't see with our five senses?

James A. Baldwin

He leaned up a little and watched her face. Her face would now be, forever, more mysterious and impenetrable than the face of any stranger. Strangers' faces hold no secrets because the imagination does not invest them with any. But the face of a lover is an unknown precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

James A. Baldwin

If all you want to do is make money, the very last thing you need is imagination.