Famous Quotes & Sayings

Swami Vivekananda

Meditation, you know, comes by a process imagination. You go through all these processes purification of the elements - making the one melt the other, that into the next higher, that into mind, that into spirit, and then you are spirit.

Stephen King

This is probably the single great subject of horror fiction: our need to cope with a mystery that can be understood only with the aid of a helpful imagination.

Stephen King

Small towns harbor small imaginations.

Taylor Swift

My imagination is a twisted place.

Stanley Kubrick

I'm a slave to my imagination in terms of making narrative films.

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.

Woody Allen

All i have in my life is my imagination

William Wordsworth

The mightiest lever known to the world: imagination.

William Morris Hunt

Imagination comes in after we have experience.

William Faulkner

The writer has three sources: imagination, observation, and experience

Saint Francis de Sales

Is it not a great temptation to be so valiant in imagination and so cowardly in execution?

Richard Dawkins

Religions are not imaginative, not poetic, not soulful. On the contrary, they are parochial, small-minded, niggardly with the human imagination, precisely where science is generous.

Robin Wright

It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that

Robert Nozick

The scientists often have more unfettered imaginations than current philosophers do. Relativity theory came as a complete surprise to philosophers, and so did quantum mechanics, and so did other things.

Robert Collier

Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.

Richard P. Feynman

The work I have done has, already, been adequately rewarded and recognized. Imagination reaches out repeatedly trying to achieve some higher level of understanding, until suddenly I find myself momentarily alone before one new corner of nature's pattern of beauty and true majesty revealed. That was my reward.

Richard P. Feynman

What we need is imagination, but imagination in a terrible strait-jacket.

Richard P. Feynman

Nature's imagination far surpasses our own.

Richard P. Feynman

Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are there.

Richard P. Feynman

We are not to tell nature what she’s gotta be. She's always got better imagination than we have.

Renny Harlin

You want to do something that shows some type individuality and talent and imagination - at the same time, you want to be truthful to the predecessors, because obviously the audience liked something about them and you have to replicate that experience to a certain extent.

Rebecca West

[The satirist] must fully possess, at least in the world of the imagination, the quality the lack of which he is deriding in others.

Thomas Sowell

I suspect that even most conservatives would prefer to live in the kind of world conjured up in the liberals' imagination rather than in the kind of world we are in fact stuck with.

Thomas Sowell

The anointed don't like to talk about painful trade-offs. They like to talk about happy "solutionsthat get rid of the whole problem- at least in their imagination.

Robert Montgomery

A moment is a mighty thing Beyond the soul's imagination; For in it, though we trace it not, How much there crowds of varied lot How much of life, life cannot see, Darts onward to eternity!

Rob Pike

Narrowness of experience leads to narrowness of imagination

Rob Lowe

As an actor, you deal in fantasy, imagination, and concentration. Those are your three weapons. Those are your bullets.

Rickie Lee Jones

I've always had an active imagination.