Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Campion

I feel that directors at times are like the janitors on the set. I am the secretary, I am the organizer, I am the maid, and I ask if they have eaten or rested. The best things are always out of your control. It's those moments that surpass the imagination that are thrilling.

Alfred Nobel

Justice is to be found only in the imagination.

Albert Einstein

Imagination is stronger than knowledge.

Colleen McCullough

In The Touch, the love scenes are the same as they were in The Thorn Birds or anything else Ive ever written. I find a way of saying that either it was heaven or hell but in a way that still leaves room for the reader to use their own imagination.

Derek Walcott

The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.

Amos Oz

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

Clay Shirky

Upgrading one's imagination about what is possible is always a leap of faith.

Cullen Hightower

A figment of the imagination is just a harmless illusion - unless you are victim of it.

Daniel Dennett

Imagination is cheap as long as you don't have to worry about the details.

Diana Vreeland

The bikini is the most important thing since the atom bomb.

Blake Mycoskie

The most important step of all is the first step. Start something.

Donald Hall

Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems.

Dale Dauten

Nothing important can be taught, only learned.

Craig Newmark

Getting out of the way is really important.

Daniel Pennac

When you buy a jacket, it’s important the pockets are big enough for a paperback!

Dylan Moran

I love playing in America. I feel having been there a few times that I "get" America a lot more than I used to. It used to be so strange to me. It takes years to learn how to separate the actual, major, important differences from the superficial differences that aren't essential or crucial.

Adam Duritz

There is nothing more important you can ever do for this world than to wake up and be a part of it.

Adam Carolla

To make something, you have to work within your abilities. Honestly assess what you can do and even more important, what can't you do.

Jason Katims

Any show I'm working on, I want the stories to always be about something, and to have the potential to be emotional. That's the kind of story that I like.

Burt Reynolds

All you really have in the end are your stories.

Charles Colson

The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it.

Eduardo Galeano

So many stories, and to choose which ones to tell and how to tell them. The words, they will tap me on the shoulder and they will speak to me: Tell me! Tell me! The stories choose me.

Donald Miller

the times we worked harder to make the day stand out. our story demanded that we change and so we did.

David Wroblewski

It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience first and foremost—not an essay, not a statement, not an orderly rollout of themes and propositions. All of which is to say: stories, too, are wild things.

David Spade

When I'm interviewed on Leno, just be funny, period. That's all they want from me. I don't want to tell my life story.

Simon Mainwaring

How well you tell your story determines how well your customers tell your story.

Steve Earle

Songwriters are expanding time rather than compressing time. My short stories tend to be old fashioned, with a beginning, middle and end.