Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Einstein

Imagination is stronger than knowledge.

Abel Ferrara

But I'm never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is. The limits of my imagination is the only thing that's gonna stop me.

A. S. Byatt

It's because I'm a feminist that I can't stand women limiting other women's imaginations. It really makes me angry.

Adrienne Rich

If the imagination is to transcend and transform experience it has to question, to challenge, to conceive of alternatives, perhaps to the very life you are living at the moment.

Agatha Christie

Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master.

Agatha Christie

You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.

Ada Louise Huxtable

A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.

Alan Greenspan

You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven't been able to do it. Maybe somebody else can.

Kevin McCloud

There's no reason for your imagination to be fettered by money.

Dougray Scott

You'd have to have one hell of an imagination to completely make up a story, but historians are very anal about what they think should be portrayed on screen. Thankfully they don't make movies; we do.

Pat Conroy

Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.

London Fletcher

We still have a lot of work to do. By no stretch of the imagination are we comfortable with what happened.

Cynthia Ozick

The imagination has resources and intimations we don't even know about.

Cynthia Ozick

To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination

Common

To be a storyteller is to be able to speak truth, to be able to use your imagination, to use the creative gifts that the Creator has given you.

Christopher Lee

It's what you don't see that keeps you on the edge of your seat in any kind of film - leave it to the imagination of the viewer.

James Thomson

But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?

Francis Spufford

Self-awareness is not the same thing as self-approval, any more than imagination is the same thing as day-dreaming.

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

David Geffen

I’ve always thought that each person invented himself… that we are each a figment of our own imagination. And some people have a greater ability to imagine than others.

David Gerrold

I've always felt that anyone who wants to talk about my private life is only demonstrating the paucity of his/her imagination when there are so many more important and exciting things to discuss.

David Whyte

The severest test of work today, is not of our strategies, but of our imaginations and identities.

Danny Boyle

Some of us are interested in directors, but really the vast majority of us are interested in actors. You experience the films through the actors, so they're all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination.

Dante Alighieri

Imagination, that dost so abstract us That we are not aware, not even when A thousand trumpets sound about our ears!

Alfred North Whitehead

The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations.

Sheherazade Goldsmith

Reducing and reusing take nothing more than a rethink on the way we shop, and using our imagination with the things that we might once have considered junk.

C. S. Lewis

I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.

Albert Einstein

To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.

David Garrick

You are indebted to you imagination for three-fourths of your importance.

William Shakespeare

I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in.

Mary McCarthy

I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake.

Philip Schultz

I do think that there is a profound reservoir of creativity and imagination in everyone I've ever met, and sometimes if someone is persistent and perversely obstinate enough to persevere, then they want to be helped. There is a way to help them.

Paul Bloom

Imagination tends to be truly useful if accompanied by the power of mental control - if the worlds in one's head can be purposefully manipulated and distinguished from the real one outside it.