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.

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.

John Dryden

Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.

John Banville

The secret of survival is a defective imagination.

Elliot Perlman

Perhaps people ought to feel with more imagination.

Josh McDermitt

I have an active imagination, and music opens the floodgates of that area of my brain.

Joseph Conrad

I can't imagine a human being so hard up for something to do as to quarrel with me.

Joshua Ferris

We suffered failures of imagination just like everyone else, our daring was wanting, and our daily contentment too nearly adequate for us to give it up.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

Jehovah God is truly rich far beyond the imagination of humankind.

John Keats

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

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.

Ludwig Feuerbach

The power of miracle is the power of imagination.

Lord Kelvin

Can you measure it? Can you express it in figures? Can you make a model of it? If not, your theory is apt to be based more upon imagination than upon knowledge.

Lord Chesterfield

To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.

Frank Leahy

There are no shortcuts in life - only those we imagine.

Julianna Baggott

I'm a writer of faith. I was raised Catholic, and I have a deeply Catholic imagination.

Karl Kraus

Imagination has the right to feast in the shade of the tree that it turns into a forest.

Karl Lagerfeld

The best thing to do is dive with your imagination ~ you can never drown yourself.

Maria Mitchell

We especially need imagination in science. Question everything.

Patrick White

If truth is not acceptable, it becomes the imagination of others.

Madame de Stael

If one hour's work is enough to govern France, four minutes is all that is needed for Italy. There is no nation more easily frightened; even its poetic imagination predisposes it to fear, and they look upon power as on an image that fills them with terror.

Haruki Murakami

The ones with no imagination are always the quickest to justify themselves.

Haruki Murakami

But intolerant,narrow minds with no imagination are like parasites that transform the host,change form,and continue to thrive. They're a lost cause, and I don't want anyone like that coming in here.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

All things are from God; and above all, reason and imagination and the great gifts of the mind. They are good in themselves; and we must not altogether forget their origin even in their perversion.

John Dryden

Imagination in a poet is a faculty so wild and lawless that, like a high ranging spaniel, it must have clogs tied to it, lest it outrun the judgment. The great easiness of blank verse renders the poet too luxuriant. He is tempted to say many things which might better be omitted, or, at least shut up in fewer words.