Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Van Der Beek

I've never really had a problem with the imagination level of an audience. They're always smarter and savvier than any studio exec will give them credit for.

Michael Keaton

I've proven I'm courageous. I'm gutsier than anybody; I've got a better imagination than anybody; I'm essentially more creative than any other actor I know, and I've proven I take risks. I don't think I need to prove anything to myself any more.

Roy Horn

The wonderful thing is, imagination is universal all over the world, no matter what the language is.

Julia Child

The more you know, the more you can create. There's no end to imagination in the kitchen.

Georgia O'Keeffe

Imagination makes you see all sorts of things.

Jess Walter

Life, he thought, is a blatant act of imagination.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.

Science is vastly more stimulating to the imagination than are the classics.

Jill Clayburgh

takes a lot of imagination, and frankly, my imagination was pretty much absorbed by my children.

Paracelsus

Then their imagination could work wonders upon wonders and invoke the shades of the philosophers, who would instruct them in their art.

It is our imagination that transforms itself into reality, through our physical strength and endeavours.

Matt Reeves

It's the idea that anticipation is as scary as anything in a movie could be. People's imagination is the most effective tool in creating terror or dread.

Geraldine Brooks

The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known, using that as scaffolding, and then letting imagination build the structure that fills in those things we can never find out for sure.

Horace

I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby to learn to express them with truth.

Henry David Thoreau

We should endeavor practically in our lives to correct all the defects which our imagination detects.

Henry David Thoreau

The most stupendous scenery ceases to be sublime when it becomes distinct, or in other words limited, and the imagination is no longer encouraged to exaggerate it. The actual height and breadth of a mountain or a waterfall are always ridiculously small; they are the imagined only that content us.

Henry David Thoreau

We can conceive of nothing more fair than something which we have experienced.

Henry David Thoreau

The imagination never forgets; it is a re-membering. It is not foundationless, but most reasonable, and it alone uses all the knowledge of the intellect.

Jean Genet

The force of what was called Panther rhetoric or word mongering resided not in elegant discourse but in strength of affirmation (or denial), in anger of tone and timbre. When the anger led to action there was no turgidity or over-emphasis. Anyone who has witnessed political rows among the Whites will have to admit that the Whites aren't overburdened with poetic imagination.

Jean Toomer

We do not posses imagination enough to sense what we are missing.

Jean de La Fontaine

Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.

Jerome K. Jerome

I should never make anything of a fisherman. I had not got sufficient imagination

Jeffrey Eugenides

Every novelist should possess a hermaphroditic imagination.

The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesnt enter into it.

James Cameron

It's about human imagination and curiosity. What's out there? What's in the great beyond? What exists at levels we can't see with our five senses?

James A. Baldwin

He leaned up a little and watched her face. Her face would now be, forever, more mysterious and impenetrable than the face of any stranger. Strangers' faces hold no secrets because the imagination does not invest them with any. But the face of a lover is an unknown precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

James A. Baldwin

If all you want to do is make money, the very last thing you need is imagination.

Christopher Isherwood

The town is an advertisement for itself; none of its charms are left to the visitor's imagination.

Gaston Bachelard

It is through the intentionality of poetic imagination that the poet's soul discovers the opening of consciousness common to all true poetry.

Gaston Bachelard

Through imagination, thanks to the subtleties of the irreality function, we re-enter the world of confidence, the world of the confident being, which is the proper world for reverie.

Jennifer Gilmore

History releases me from my own experience and jogs my fictional imagination.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom.

George William Curtis

True invective requires great imagination.