Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sebastian Faulks

I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine.

John Podhoretz

Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change.

Walter Kirn

Spirit was a by-product of activity, like the reflection from a spinning fan blade, and our souls in the end did not reside within us but flowed outward from our movements.

Mary Catherine Bateson

...a disgruntled reflection on my own life as a sort of desperate improvisation in which I was constantly trying to make something coherent from conflicting elements to fit rapidly changing settings.

Neil Patrick Harris

Theater for me is about enduring human truth. Special effects can be part of that, but when they obscure what is the reason we come to theater - to see reflections of our confounded humanity - the theater has lost its way.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

It takes all sorts of people to make a world, as I've often heard, but I think there are some who could be spared,' Anne told her reflection in the east gable mirror that night.

John F. Kennedy

The Federal Government is the people and the budget is a reflection of their need.

John F. Kennedy

Sometimes it just amazes me how many people desperately want to protect my personal information. Ten thousand reflections hide the true gem. Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

Judith Orloff

Abundance is a state of mind, more than a reflection of wealth.

Auguste Comte

Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.

Brian Selznick

Once I'm given an idea for a story I have a million ideas on how it should be illustrated, but I don't have a big shoebox full of unfinished ideas.

C. S. Lewis

That part of Rostrevor which overlooks Carlingford Lough is my idea of Narnia.

Al Gore

I work to promote the idea of sustainable capitalism driven by long-term considerations rather than quarterly profits, which seeks to better people's lives and the planet rather than destroy them.

Charles Kettering

In many ways ideas are more important than people - they are much more permanent.

Bob Dylan

Gotta head full of ideas that are driving me insane...

Brit Marling

I learned from my parents the idea that, if you are devoted enough and you want to study something enough, you can really teach yourself anything.

Robert Kiyosaki

The world's not going to wait for you. If you have an idea, put some effort behind it and get it out there.

Robert Kiyosaki

Friends and family will tell you why your ideas won't work. Most are left-brained employees and specialists and NOT entrepreneurs.

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.

Anita Shreve

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

Rene Descartes

Reason is nothing without imagination.

Thomas Cole

If the imagination is shackled, and nothing is described but what we see, seldom will anything truly great be produced either in Painting or Poetry

Seth Lloyd

Programmed by quanta, physics gave rise first to chemistry and then to life; programmed by mutations and recombination, life gave rise to Shakespeare; programmed by experience and imagination, Shakespeare gave rise to Hamlet.