Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy; only the precursor of the reason.

Leonard Orr

It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income.

Marcus Aurelius

Waste not the remnant of thy life in those imaginations touching other folk, whereby thou contributest not to the common weal.

Josh McDermitt

I have an active imagination, and music opens the floodgates of that area of my brain.

Joseph Conrad

I can't imagine a human being so hard up for something to do as to quarrel with me.

Joshua Ferris

We suffered failures of imagination just like everyone else, our daring was wanting, and our daily contentment too nearly adequate for us to give it up.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

Jehovah God is truly rich far beyond the imagination of humankind.

Phylicia Rashad

Let me just say that to imagine racism does not exist is imagination. And to imagine that it does not create its own set of problems is true imagination. So let's not imagine that racism is gone, extinguished, because it's not. We are seeing this in the top levels of the political arena, and we are seeing it very, very plainly.

Rachel Cohn

If I don't shut down my brain soon, my imagination will take off so far about what could be with this guy, that nothing will ever just be.-- Norah, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

Keith David

As actors we're always trying to use our creative imagination.

Katy Perry

I've done a lot of bad things. Use your imagination.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There comes a period of the imagination to each--a later youth--the power of beauty, the power of looks, of poetry.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments.

Lily Tomlin

Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.

Laurette Taylor

Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them.

L. Ron Hubbard

Imagination is actually a form of computation. Imagination gives calculated and instinctive solutions for the future.

Thom Yorke

Have you ever seen any member of radiohead aside from me in public? Do they interact or 'lift' objects? Holograms, all of them. I created them in 1991 using my massive brainpower. Even pitchforkmedia is a product of my brilliant imagination.

Terry Wogan

Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it.

Larry Niven

In the world of words the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

Lewis Carroll

Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.

Joseph Heller

I don't understand the process of imagination-though I know that I am very much at its mercy.

Julianna Baggott

I'm a writer of faith. I was raised Catholic, and I have a deeply Catholic imagination.

Karl Kraus

Imagination has the right to feast in the shade of the tree that it turns into a forest.

Karl Lagerfeld

The best thing to do is dive with your imagination ~ you can never drown yourself.

Maria Mitchell

We especially need imagination in science. Question everything.

Patrick White

If truth is not acceptable, it becomes the imagination of others.

Patty Duke

I have been afraid all my life that I am going to die. All my life it has been stuffed in my imagination

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

Paul Tagliabue

The Super Bowl now takes on a magnitude that almost defies the imagination.

Madeleine L'Engle

It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the hem of truth.

Louis Sullivan

The architect who combines in his being the powers of vision, of imagination, of intellect, of sympathy with human need and the power to interpret them in a language vernacular and time--- is he who shall create poems in stone.