Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Ford

With imagination, you can put something where nothing was.

Robert Doisneau

Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will.

Robert Duvall

If you don't daydream and kind of plan things out in your imagination, you never get there. So you have to start someplace.

Roald Dahl

There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.

Roald Dahl

There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you'll be free if you truly wish to be.

Rob Bell

Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.

Richard Rohr

The gift of darkness draws you to know God’s presence beyond what thought, imagination, or sensory feeling can comprehend.

Saul Bellow

Imagination is a force of nature.

Saul Bellow

What Homo sapien imagines, he may slowly convert himself to.

Saul Bellow

All human accomplishment has this same origin, identically. Imagination is a force of nature. Is this not enough to make a person full of ecstasy? Imagination, imagination, imagination! It converts to actual. It sustains, it alters, it redeems!

Rod Serling

Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself.

Robert Rauschenberg

Curiosity is the main energy.

Robert Rauschenberg

I prefer images that are less specific, so there is room for everyone's imagination.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The primary notion i hold to be the Living Power.

Sarah Orne Jewett

Imagination is the only true thing in the world!

Wallace Stevens

Imagination applied to the whole world is vapid in comparison to imagination applied to a detail.

Wallace Stevens

God and the imagination are one.

Wallace Stevens

Imagination is the will of things. . . .

Wallace Stevens

The death of Satan was a tragedy For the imagination.

Wallace Stevens

Imagination...is the irrepressible revolutionist.

Wallace Stevens

Imagination is the power of the mind over the possibilities of things.

Wallace Stevens

in the presence of extraordinary actuality, consciousness takes the place of imagination.

Wallace Stevens

The imagination is one of the forces of nature.

Willard Gaylin

Our imagination and reasoning powers facilitate anxiety; the anxious feeling is precipitated not by an absolute impending threat-such as the worry about an examination, a speech, travel-but rather by the symbolic and often unconscious representations.

William Irwin Thompson

Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.

William Butler Yeats

rhetoric is will doing the work of imagination.

William Butler Yeats

The living can assist the imagination of the dead...

William Butler Yeats

By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.

William Butler Yeats

Does the imagination dwell the most Upon a woman won or a woman lost?

Walter Savage Landor

Fancy is imagination in her youth and adolescence. Fancy is always excursive; imagination, not seldom, is sedate.

Winston Churchill

There is required for the composition of a great commander not only massive common sense and reasoning power, not only imagination, but also an element of legerdemain, an original and sinister touch, which leaves the enemy puzzled as well as beaten.

Virginia Woolf

He was a thorough good sort; a bit limited; a bit thick in the head; yes; but a thorough good sort. Whatever he took up he did in the same matter-of-fact sensible way; without a touch of imagination, without a sparkle of brilliancy, but with the inexplicable niceness of his type.

William Warburton

Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.