Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ian Mckellen

[There's] nothing special about an actor's imagination, except that he uses it a lot.

Howard Gordon

In a novel, the only budgetary limitations are that of your imagination.

Giambattista Vico

Imagination is more robust in proportion as reasoning power is weak.

James Broughton

I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action.

Jack Williamson

Life would have been absolutely empty without imagination.

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.

Jim Butcher

Magic is a kind of energy. It is given shape by human thoughts and emotions, by imagination. Thoughts define that shape—and words help to define those thoughts. That’s why wizards usually use words to help them with their spells. Words provide a sort of insulation as the energy of magic burns through a spell caster’s mind.

Howard Schultz

If it Captures Your Imagination, it will captivate others.

For now, unfortunately, we're going to leave that up to your imagination.

Isak Dinesen

death - a passage outside the range of imagination, but within the range of experience.

J. R. R. Tolkien

The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally small reach of their imagination.

Immanuel Kant

Psychologists have hitherto failed to realize that imagination is a necessary ingredient of perception itself.

Elle Fanning

To be an actor or actress, you have to feel on a deep level and tap into emotions that you've never felt before. You're imagining how something would feel. You have to use your imagination so much.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are never either so fortunate or so misfortunate as we imagine.

Ian Mcewan

I've always thought cruelty is a failure of imagination.

Ian Mcewan

Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Ian Mcewan

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.

Hugh Howey

I'd rather excite the imagination of a legion of readers and make pennies from each of them than hold off for a larger chunk of change from only a handful of fans.

Homer

Without question it may be said of Vancouver that her position, geographically, is Imperial to a degree, that her possibilities are enormous, and that with but a feeble stretch of the imagination those possibilities might wisely be deemed certainties.

Gloria Steinem

The same big TV antenna dwarfed each roof, as though life here could only be bearable if lived elsewhere in the imagination.

J. M. Coetzee

Nothing is worse than what we can imagine.

J. K. Rowling

Extraordinary imagination, especially in a witch world. Also friendship.

J. K. Rowling

Imagination is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

J. K. Rowling

Imagination is ... the foundation of all invention and innovation.

Grace Lin

Your imagination will create many friends

Gary Hamel

For every person who can imagine a possibility there are tens of thousands who are stuck in the greased grooves of history.

Gary Hamel

The problem is not one of prediction. It is one of imagination.

Gary Hamel

Never before has the gap between what we can imagine and what we can accomplish been smaller.

Annabeth Gish

I am pretty scare-able. I guess that is why I like doing horror because my imagination can take me places.

Slim Thug

I don't let my imagination run wild when I rap.

Henry David Thoreau

I do not know how to distinguish between our waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?