Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nicolas Cage

Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still willing to go along for the ride.

Nicolas Cage

I want to try to apply my abilities sometimes to make families happy, so I have to make movies at a venue that are not gratuitously violent, that are not using bullets and bloodshed, but are using things like magic and fantasy and enchantment and the imagination. To me that's just all positive stuff. But I am eclectic and I still like to make movies for the midnight audience as well.

Nolan North

I'm an actor. Whether I'm on stage, in front of a camera or a microphone, what I do is the same - although with videogames it requires a lot of imagination.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination

Mike Murdock

You imagination is more important than your knowledge.

John Ruskin

What is poetry? The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions.

John Ruskin

The virtue of the imagination is its reaching, by intuition and intensity, a more essential truth than is seen at the surface of things.

John Ruskin

Wherever the human mind is healthy and vigorous in all its proportions, great in imagination and emotion no less than in intellect, and not overborne by an undue or hardened pre-eminence of the mere reasoning faculties, there the grotesque will exist in full energy.

John Ruskin

In general, when the imagination is at all noble, it is irresistible, and therefore those who can at all resist it ought to resist it. Be a plain topographer if you possibly can; if Nature meant you to be anything else, she will force you to it; but never try to be a prophet.

Mark Twain

Imagination labors best in distant fields.

Mason Cooley

Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.

Mason Cooley

I would like to be a figment of my own imagination, but belly and bowels will not permit.

Mason Cooley

I can imagine many things, but few clearly.

Michael Chabon

I can imagine anything except having no imagination.

Michio Kaku

In physics, one of the most exciting areas is in nanotech. With computers exhausting the power of silicon, Silicon Valley could become a Rust Belt, unless we can find replacements, such as quantum computers and molecular computers. To be a leader in any field, one has to have a great imagination. Sure, we have to know the basics and fundamentals. But beyond that, we have to let our imagination soar.

Mark Rothko

This world of the imagination is fancy-free and violently opposed to common sense.

Patricia Ryan

Trust your imagination. There is always something in the box.

Madonna Ciccone

All you need is your own imagination. So use it that's what it's for.

Michel de Montaigne

Things seem greater by imagination than they are in effect.

Michel de Montaigne

It is probable that the principal credit of miracles, visions, enchantments, and such extraordinary occurrences comes from the power of imagination, acting principally upon the minds of the common people, which are softer.

Michel de Montaigne

We imagine much more appropriately an artisan on his toilet seat or on his wife than a great president, venerable by his demeanorand his ability. It seems to us that they do not stoop from their lofty thrones even to live.

James Lowell

Solitude is as needed to the imagination as society is wholesome to the character.

Imagination without study is the self-indulgence of the intellect.

Michael Foot

She has no imagination and that means no compassion.

August Wilson

I have a robust imagination and I have imagined for myself many things,

Jim Goad

What you accomplish in life is limited only by your imagination and the fear of reprisal. Life is too fleeting and unrewarding to have to live with the added anus of indignity. The denial of one's inevitable demise is what causes most of the astringent blandness in the world. When your existence ends most certainly in death, there is no such thing as 'going too far'. There are no 'lines' you should fear to cross except the finish line. Playing it safe is the most dangerous thing you could do.

Jerome K. Jerome

I should never make anything of a fisherman. I had not got sufficient imagination

Jeffrey Eugenides

Every novelist should possess a hermaphroditic imagination.

The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesnt enter into it.

James Cameron

It's about human imagination and curiosity. What's out there? What's in the great beyond? What exists at levels we can't see with our five senses?

James A. Baldwin

He leaned up a little and watched her face. Her face would now be, forever, more mysterious and impenetrable than the face of any stranger. Strangers' faces hold no secrets because the imagination does not invest them with any. But the face of a lover is an unknown precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

James A. Baldwin

If all you want to do is make money, the very last thing you need is imagination.

Christopher Isherwood

The town is an advertisement for itself; none of its charms are left to the visitor's imagination.