Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

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.

Ada Lovelace

Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science.

C. S. Lewis

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

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.

Issey Miyake

With your imagination you can wear (them) from the morning to night,

Stephen Jay Gould

The absence of fossil evidence for intermediary stages between major transitions in organic design, indeed our inability, even in our imagination, to construct functional intermediates in many cases, has been a persistent and nagging problem for gradualist accounts of evolution.

William Shenstone

The works of a person that begin immediately to decay, while those of him who plants begin directly to improve. In this, planting promises a more lasting pleasure than building; which, were it to remain in equal perfection, would at best begin to moulder and want repairs in imagination. Now trees have a circumstance that suits our taste, and that is annual variety.

Edan Lepucki

I have a darker imagination than most people.

Bob Stoops

Our imagination as a staff, and Chuck's imagination with the offensive staff is to move the football,

Barry Lopez

It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.

C. S. Lewis

The more imagination the reader has ... the more he will do for himself. He will, at a mere hint from the author, flood wretched material with suggestion and never guess that he is himself chiefly making what he enjoys.

Antoni Tapies

If one draws things in a manner which provides only the barest clue to their meaning, the viewer is forced to fill in the gaps by using his own imagination. He is compelled to participate in the creative act, which I consider very important.

Anthony Storr

Imagination flourishes best in solitude.

Anthony Storr

The ecstatic state of wholeness is bound to be transient because it has no part in the total pattern of ‘adaptation through maladaptation’ which is characteristic of our species…the hunger of imagination, the desire and pursuit of the whole, take origin from the realization that something is missing, from awareness of incompleteness.

Bill Vaughan

A mission could be defined as an image of a desired state that you want to get to. Once fully seen, it will inspire you to act, fuel your imagination and determine your behavior.

Bill Hicks

You are the imagination of yourself.

People often get their imagination's mixed up with their memories.

Oscar Wilde

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

Live in your imagination, not in your past.

Betty Smith

I'll not punish you for having an imagination.

Bill Gates

Microsoft's only factory asset is the human imagination.

Bill Gates

Microsoft is a company that manages imagination.

Bill Gates

Microsoft does not dominate the software industry by any stretch of the imagination. We have lots of very able competitors who keep us constantly vigilant, and sometimes they beat us to the punch. Microsoft's success to date is based solely on the fact that people like Microsoft software.

Charlie Simpson

Busted is not the ideal band I'd like to be in by any stretch of the imagination.

Carl Jung

Imagination is a concentrated extract of all the forces of life.

Carl Jung

Normality is a fine ideal for those who have no imagination.

Albert Einstein

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

Mary McCarthy

I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake.

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.

Paul Bloom

Imagination is Reality Lite - a useful substitute when the real pleasure is inaccessible, too risky, or too much work.

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.