Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bertrand Russell

Those whose lives are fruitful to themselves, to their friends, or to the world are inspired by hope and sustained by joy: they see in imagination the things that might be and the way in which they are to be brought into existence.

Carolyn Wells

Contentment is the result of a limited imagination.

Carlos Fuentes

I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.

Carlos Fuentes

I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination.

Cher

All of us invent ourselves. Some of us just have more imagination than others.

Charles Baudelaire

Comme l'imagination a cre e le monde, elle le gouverne. Because imagination created the world, it governs it.

Chang-Rae Lee

Imagination might not be limitless. It's still tethered to the universe of what we know.

Charles Sanders Peirce

Mere imagination would indeed be mere trifling; only no imagination is mere .

Bernard Werber

The best way to renew thought is to go outside the human imagination.

Anthony Browne

When I was a boy, I was a worrier, and so was my son, Joe. I used to tell him that worrying meant he had an imagination and that one day he'd be pleased.

Edmund White

The imagination is not the consolation people pretend. It can even be regarded as the admission of some sort of failure.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

They say that none of us exists, except in the imagination of his fellows, other than as an intangible, invisible mentality.

Arthur Conan Doyle

There is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination; where there is no imagination there is no horror.

Arthur Conan Doyle

We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.

Arthur C. Clarke

... chemistry is a trade for people without enough imagination to be physicists.

Arthur C. Clarke

I want to be remembered most as a writer - one who entertained readers, and, hopefully, stretched their imagination as well.

Bela Lugosi

If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.

Baltasar Gracian

Harness the imagination, for she is the whole of happiness.

Arundhati Roy

To call someone 'anti-American', indeed, to be anti-American, is not just racist, it's a failure of the imagination.

Diana Wynne Jones

All these things that crib and cab in your brain, in your imagination, are in fact things that might well in later life drive you insane.

Richard P. Feynman

See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

Brennan Manning

There is an extraordinary power in storytelling that stirs the imagination and makes an indelible impression on the mind.

Brian Tracy

Those who start in business with too little money are more likely to succeed than those who start with too much. Energy and imagination are the springboards to wealth creation.

Brian Tracy

Energy and imagination are the springboards to wealth creation.

Brian K. Vaughan

That was the appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You're only limited by your imagination.

Brian Jacques

Imagination is a gift given to us from God and each one of us use it differently.

Brendan Fraser

While green-screen work, find a way to stay true to whatever it is that it takes to act a scene out, and make sure that you use your imagination as best as you possibly can, still stay loose, and still allow yourself the liberty of doing what you need to do as an actor, and then work within the confines of what is actually possible.

Brad Meltzer

We all live best in our imaginations.

Jane Campion

I feel that directors at times are like the janitors on the set. I am the secretary, I am the organizer, I am the maid, and I ask if they have eaten or rested. The best things are always out of your control. It's those moments that surpass the imagination that are thrilling.

Joseph Joubert

One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

Elliot Perlman

I'll be happy if I can gain even the smallest place inside the literary imagination of U.S. readers.

Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

You have to really use your imagination to refresh your daily life.

Blaise Pascal

Put the world's greatest philosopher on a plank that is wider than need be; if there is a precipe below, although his reason may convince him that he is safe, his imagination will prevail.