Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anais Nin

You are the only woman who ever answered the demands of my imagination.

Anita Shreve

Is imagination dependent upon experience, or is experience influenced by imagination?

Christopher Moore

Faith isn't an act of intelligence, it's an act of imagination.

Anne Bancroft

It's really important that, as women, we tell our stories. That is what helps seed our imaginations.

Andrew Bird

I don't like super-descriptive modern fiction. I like, "Here's what was happening in 1582 all over the planet." Then that gets my imagination going.

Andrew Bird

I didn't have the patience for the research, or anything like that. I just like how it sets the imagination off. It's just an area that's very fertile for great words. Great metaphors, potentially.

Andrew Bird

My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest.

Amos Oz

The [political] left are people with an imagination and the right are those without an imagination.

Ambrose Bierce

Liberty is one of the imagination's most precious possessions.

Ambrose Bierce

ROMANCE, n. Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In the novel the writer's thought is tethered to probability, but in romance it ranges at will over the entire region of the imagination . . .

Ambrose Bierce

SPOOKER, n. A writer whose imagination concerns itself with supernatural phenomena, especially in the doings of spooks.

Alice Sebold

Part of the creative process for me is an invitation for readers to follow their imagination.

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.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Elliot Perlman

I'll be happy if I can gain even the smallest place inside the literary imagination of U.S. readers.

Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

You have to really use your imagination to refresh your daily life.

Kate Micucci

There was always that kind of imagination in our house, which was always a little crazy.

Jane Addams

Much of the insensibility and hardness of the world is due to the lack of imagination which prevents a realization of the experiences of other people.

Jane Austen

Lovely & too charming Fair one, notwithstanding your forbidding Squint, your greazy tresses & your swelling Back, which are more frightful than imagination can paint or pen describe, I cannot refrain from expressing my raptures, at the engaging Qualities of your Mind, which so amply atone for the Horror, with which your first appearance must ever inspire the unwary visitor.

Brennan Manning

There is an extraordinary power in storytelling that stirs the imagination and makes an indelible impression on the mind.

The southern German has the imagination and emotionality to subscribe to a fanatic ideology, but he is ordinarily inhibited from excesses by his natural humaneness. The Prussian does not have the imagination to conceive in terms of abstract racial and political theories, but when he is told to do something, he does it.

Arthur Wing Pinero

A financer is a pawnbroker with an imagination.

Edmund Clarence Stedman

The imagination never dies.

Edmund Burke

It is from this absolute indifference and tranquillity of the mind, that mathematical speculations derive some of the most considerable advantages; because there is nothing to interest the imagination; because the judgment sits free and unbiased to examine the point. All proportions, every arrangement of quantity, is alike to the understanding, because the same truths result to it from all; from greater from lesser, from equality and inequality.

David Hume

In the sphere of natural investigation, as in poetry and painting, the delineation of that which appeals most strongly to the imagination, derives its collective interest from the vivid truthfulness with which the individual features are portrayed.

David Hume

Let us fix our attention out of ourselves as much as possible; let us chase our imagination to the heavens, or to the utmost limits of the universe; we never really advance a step beyond ourselves, nor can conceive any kind of existence, but those perceptions, which have appeared in that narrow compass.

Astrid Lindgren

What the world of tomorrow will be like is greatly dependent on the power of imagination in those who are learning to read today.

Astrid Lindgren

Everything great that ever happened in this world happened first in somebody’s imagination.

Edouard Manet

It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.

Edmund Wilson

The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.

Edmund Wilson

The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.

Edmund White

The imagination is not the consolation people pretend. It can even be regarded as the admission of some sort of failure.