Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bernard Werber

The best way to renew thought is to go outside the human imagination.

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.

Anthony Browne

When I was a boy, I was a worrier, and so was my son, Joe. I used to tell him that worrying meant he had an imagination and that one day he'd be pleased.

Byron Katie

Everyone in your life is a figment of your imagination--ev en you.

Bryce Courtenay

The imagination is always the best torturer.

Camille Paglia

The moment there is imagination there is myth

C. Northcote Parkinson

Imagination is essential and it comes first, for without imagination we are aimless.

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.

Diana Gabaldon

I thought I could make out Jamie's Highland screech, but that was likely imagination; they all sounded equally demented.

Edgar Degas

What use is my mind? Granted that it enables me to hail a bus and to pay my fare. But once I am inside my studio, what use is my mind? I have my model, my pencil, my paints. My mind doesn't interest me.

Edgar Cayce

Anyone with great imagination, of course, is intuitive. Knowledge of any nature, unless put into practical use, becomes of little effect.

Ed Helms

As a hobbyist, there's something about miniature anything that captures my imagination.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

We overstate the ills of life, and take Imagination... down our earth to rake...

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.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

They say that none of us exists, except in the imagination of his fellows, other than as an intangible, invisible mentality.

Arthur Conan Doyle

There is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination; where there is no imagination there is no horror.

Betty Smith

I'll not punish you for having an imagination.

Bill Gates

Microsoft is a company that manages imagination.

Charlie Simpson

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

Matt Reeves

People's imagination is the most effective tool in creating terror or dread.

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

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.

Barbara Januszkiewicz

Imagination needs to be fed.

Azar Nafisi

We speak of facts, yet facts exist only partially to us if they are not repeated and re-created through emotions, thoughts and feelings. To me it seemed as if we had not really existed, or only half existed, because we could not imaginatively realize ourselves and communicate to the world, because we had used works of imagination to serve as handmaidens to some political ploy.

Azar Nafisi

That, of course, is what great works of imagination do for us: They make us a little restless, destabilize us, question our preconceived notions and formulas.

Brian Tracy

Those who start in business with too little money are more likely to succeed than those who start with too much. Energy and imagination are the springboards to wealth creation.