Famous Quotes & Sayings

Man Ray

I paint what cannot be photographed, something from the imagination... I photograph the things I don't want to paint, things that are already in existence.

Mahatma Gandhi

Let the villages of the future live in our imagination, so that we might one day come to live in them!

Harvey Keitel

He brought imagination to the story of the Creation.

James Madison

A universal peace, it is to be feared, is in the catalogue of events, which will never exist but in the imaginations of visionary philosophers, or in the breasts of benevolent enthusiasts.

Jimi Hendrix

Don't let your imagination take you by surprise.

John Hurt

Acting is an imaginative leap, really. And imaginations prosper in different circumstances. And it's being able - I can't tell you how one does, but one tries to read those circumstances correctly.

Ralph Nader

By the time you rise through the ranks, the culture of homogenization has bred the spirit and imagination out of you.

Imagine the possibilities!

Shana Alexander

Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is likely, and dancers know it.

Shane Claiborne

Violence is for those who have lost their imagination.

Michael Phelps

When you use your imagination anything can happen.

Shonda Rhimes

My parents created a world in which the only ­barrier to your success is your own imagination.

Shonda Rhimes

The only limit to success is your own imagination.

John Dos Passos

Great works of the imagination are not produced quickly nor do they take quick effect on the popular mind.

John O'Donohue

Everything in the world of soul has a deep desire and longing for visible form; this is exactly where the power of the imagination lives.

John O'Donohue

When you begin to sense that your imagination is the place where you are most divine, you feel called to clean out of your mind all the worn and shabby furniture of thought. You wish to refurbish yourself with living thought so that you can begin to see.

John Dewey

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. What are now working conceptions, employed as a matter of course because they have withstood the tests of experiment and have emerged triumphant, were once speculative hypotheses.

John Dewey

Just as the senses require sensible objects to stimulate them, so our powers of observation, recollection, and imagination do not work spontaneously, but are set in motion by the demands set up by current social occupations.

John B. S. Haldane

Science is vastly more stimulating to the imagination than the classics.

Joan Miro

Painting must be fertile. It must give birth to a world.. ..it must fertilize the imagination.

Joan of Arc

How else would God speak to me, if not through my imagination?

Francois Truffaut

Life has more imagination than we do.

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.

Madeleine L'Engle

It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the hem of truth.

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.