Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tycho Brahe

Now it is quite clear to me that there are no solid spheres in the heavens, and those that have been devised by the authors to save the appearances, exist only in the imagination.

William Irwin Thompson

Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.

William Butler Yeats

rhetoric is will doing the work of imagination.

William Butler Yeats

The living can assist the imagination of the dead...

William Butler Yeats

By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.

William Butler Yeats

Does the imagination dwell the most Upon a woman won or a woman lost?

Walter Savage Landor

Fancy is imagination in her youth and adolescence. Fancy is always excursive; imagination, not seldom, is sedate.

Winston Churchill

There is required for the composition of a great commander not only massive common sense and reasoning power, not only imagination, but also an element of legerdemain, an original and sinister touch, which leaves the enemy puzzled as well as beaten.

Rhonda Byrne

When you worry about something, you are using your immense power of imagination negatively. You are imagining the worst, and as you imagine the worst, you are bringing it to you. When you are excited about something, you are using your power of imagination positively. You are imagining the best, and as you imagine the best, you are bringing it to you.

Vikram Seth

I just love music - by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.

Rose Tremain

The imagination conjures gifts; what the ungrateful, unsentimental part of the mind has to do is to unwrap them, find fault with them, see them for what they are and then alter them.

Samuel Johnson

They whose activity of imagination is often shifting the scenes of expectation, are frequently subject to such sallies of caprice as make all their actions fortuitous, destroy the value of their friendship, obstruct the efficacy of their virtues, and set them below the meanest of those who persist in their resolutions, execute what they design, and perform what they have promised.

Samuel Johnson

No cause more frequently produces bashfulness than too high an opinion of our own importance. He that imagines an assembly filled with his merit, panting with expectation, and hushed with attention, easily terrifies himself with the dread of disappointing them, and strains his imagination in pursuit of something that may vindicate the veracity of fame, and show that his reputation was not gained by chance.

Rufus Sewell

I do as much comedy as I possibly can but I’m basically limited by the imagination of the secretaries who make the decisions,

William Hazlitt

Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.

William Hazlitt

The great requisite for the prosperous management of ordinary business is the want of imagination.

William Hazlitt

The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it.

Wadah Khanfar

These [Arab] youth who have been inspired by universal values are idealistic enough to imagine a magnificent future and, at the same time, realistic enough to balance this kind of imagination and the process leading to it - not using violence, not trying to create chaos.

Yann Martel

India is a place where all stories are possible. You forget that the imagination can take hold of anything and contemplate it and love it and describe it.

Wynton Marsalis

What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I do not hear in my imagination the parts successively, but I hear them gleich alles zusammen - at the same time all together.

Zelda Fitzgerald

I am really only myself when I'm somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.

Stevie Jackson

I like the notion of making stuff up or letting your imagination go away with you.

Michael Beck

I often wonder why people remake movies. Is there just a lack of imagination out there that they can't come up with an original idea?

Adam Savage

I reject your reality and substitute it for my own.

Jacques Lipchitz

Imagination is a very precise thing, you know-it is not fantasy; the man who invented the wheel while he was observing another man walking-that is imagination!

Michael O'Brien

Imagination is a screen onto which the evil spirits can 'project' images, temptations presented as stimulating entertainments, offering us pleasurable rewards if we give in to the temptation.

William Wordsworth

The mightiest lever known to the moral world, imagination.

Marcel Proust

The inertia of the mind urges it to slide down the easy slope of imagination, rather than to climb the steep slope of introspection.

Marcel Proust

But,instead of what our imagination makes us suppose and which we worthless try to discover,life gives us something that we could hardly imagine.

Marcel Proust

Only imagination and belief can differentiate from the rest certain objects, certain people, and can create an atmosphere.

Joseph Addison

Among the English authors, Shakespeare has incomparably excelled all others. That noble extravagance of fancy, which he had in so great perfection, thoroughly qualified him to touch the weak, superstitious part of his readers' imagination, and made him capable of succeeding where he had nothing to support him besides the strength of his own genius.

Josef Albers

Learn to see and to feel life; that is, cultivate imagination, because there are still marvels in the world, because life is a mystery and always will be. But be aware of it.