Famous Quotes & Sayings

Billie Holiday

If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.

Tom Waits

Mostly, I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.

Dennis Potter

The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.

Dennis Haysbert

Being on set and seeing all that green screen, and how it activated my imagination, was amazing to me. I fell into that world very easily, and it was incredible to be a part of.

Denis Diderot

When shall we see poets born? After a time of disasters and great misfortunes, when harrowed nations begin to breathe again. And then, shaken by the terror of such spectacles, imaginations will paint things entirely strange to those who have not witnessed them.

Dean Koontz

A great deal of phenomenal experience has fostered in me a flexibility of the mind and imagination that some might call madness

Elizabeth Wurtzel

It was just very interesting to me that certain types of women inspire people's imagination, and all of them were very difficult women.

Ashleigh Brilliant

The things I fear may all be imaginary, so what I fear most is my imagination.

Barbara Hambly

Imagination is what has driven human progress since very early times.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

Berthold Auerbach

Imagination is the mightiest despot.

Michael Foot

She has no imagination and that means no compassion.

Brit Marling

I feel like I'm a much better person when I'm developing my imagination and my innocence and my vulnerability. I like that version of me better than the version where I'm just working on my analytical mind.

Arthur Conan Doyle

For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.

Barbara Januszkiewicz

Imagination needs to be fed.

Azar Nafisi

We speak of facts, yet facts exist only partially to us if they are not repeated and re-created through emotions, thoughts and feelings. To me it seemed as if we had not really existed, or only half existed, because we could not imaginatively realize ourselves and communicate to the world, because we had used works of imagination to serve as handmaidens to some political ploy.

Azar Nafisi

That, of course, is what great works of imagination do for us: They make us a little restless, destabilize us, question our preconceived notions and formulas.

Aristotle

Imagination is a sort of faint perception.

Aristotle

Opinion involves belief (for without belief in what we opine we cannot have an opinion), and in the brutes though we often find imagination we never find belief.

Elinor Wylie

I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose.

James Lowell

Solitude is as needed to the imagination as society is wholesome to the character.

Geraldine McCaughrean

I had a very happy childhood, but I still used my imagination as a leisure resort.

London Fletcher

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

Kevin McCloud

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

Anna Sui

The sexiest thing about a bikini is that it leaves something to the imagination, which is the best part.

Andy Behrman

My manic depression was ravaging my life, but because nobody could see it, many people thought it was a figment of my imagination.

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.

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.

Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way.

Ada Louise Huxtable

A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

I want to liberate my imagination and my mind with every kind of movie. That is what I wanted to do all my life.

Albert Einstein

Imagination rules the earth