Famous Quotes & Sayings

Katy Perry

I've done a lot of bad things. Use your imagination.

Ralph Ellison

I'm not a separatist. The imagination is integrative. That's how you make the new -- by putting something else with what you've got. And I'm unashamedly an American integrationist.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whatever appeals to the imagination, by transcending the ordinary limits of human ability, wonderfully encourages and liberates us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There comes a period of the imagination to each--a later youth--the power of beauty, the power of looks, of poetry.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments.

Lily Tomlin

Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.

Laurette Taylor

Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them.

L. Ron Hubbard

Imagination is actually a form of computation. Imagination gives calculated and instinctive solutions for the future.

Thom Yorke

Have you ever seen any member of radiohead aside from me in public? Do they interact or 'lift' objects? Holograms, all of them. I created them in 1991 using my massive brainpower. Even pitchforkmedia is a product of my brilliant imagination.

Terry Wogan

Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it.

Terry Pratchett

Look, he said to his imagination, if this is how you're going to behave, I shan't bring you again.

Terry Pratchett

I've always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated.

Terry Brooks

I want to kick-start your imagination and let you discover the places it can take you.

Terence McKenna

The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.

Terence McKenna

You could almost describe psychedelics as enzymes for the activity of the imagination.

Terence McKenna

The imagination is a dimension of nonlocal information

Terence McKenna

Nature and the imagination seem to be the precursors to involvement in the psychedelic experience.

Simone de Beauvoir

Anger or revolt that does not get into the muscles remains a figment of the imagination.

Simone Weil

We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am suffering,” than to say, “This landscape is ugly.

Simon Sinek

Our vision is only actionable if we share it. Without sharing, it’s just a figment of our imagination.

Rick Riordan

I do like to wrap things up and leave some things to the readers' imagination.

Timothy Spall

Imagination is a beast that has to be put in a cage.

Ray Kurzweil

Intuition is linear; our imaginations are weak. Even the brightest of us only extrapolate from what we know now; for the most part, we're afraid to really stretch.

Randy Castillo

My best investment is my imagination because it has never failed to bring me my greatest return.

Robert Hass

There are instances: [Henry David] Thoreau read [John] Wordsworth, [John] Muir read Thoreau, Teddy Roosevelt read Muir, and you got national parks. It took a century for this to happen, for artistic values to percolate down to where honoring the relation of people's imagination to the land, or beauty, or to wild things, was issued in legislation.

Robert Hass

As poet laureate, I was asked to be a spokesman for literature. Then what I decided is I am a spokesman for this other imagination of community - not the one showing up in the market. Nobody was tending to the way we're imaginatively connected to each other.

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.