Top 997 Imagination Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.

The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him.

I still have a photo on my wall of the greatest idol I will ever have in my life, and it's myself at eight. Because that's when the forces of imagination have the same value as the real world, when they're an instrument of survival: when my mother disappeared, and I imagined a mother. That was me at my best.

People seem to have trouble with the imagination. They can't believe that you can just pull things out of your brain like that.

In rising financial markets, the world is forever new. The bull or optimist has no eyes for past or present, but only for the future, where streams of revenue play in his imagination.

One thing about 'Star Wars' that I'm really proud of is that it expands the imagination. That's why I like the 'Star Wars' toys.

Some stories are true that never happened.

On 'Into The Wild' I spent months risking my life and on 'Speed Racer' I spent 60 days acting in front of a green screen. No danger to my physical self, but I sure had to use my imagination.

Everything you do on set is directly related to your imagination when you read the script for the first time.

You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.

My imagination, my ability to understand the way love and people grow over time, how passion can surprise and renew, utterly failed me.

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.

Dolls fire our collective imagination, for better and - too often - for worse. From life-size dolls the same height as the little girls who carry them, to dolls whose long hair can 'grow' longer, to Barbie and her fashionable sisters, dolls do double duty as child's play and the focus of adult art and adult fear.

Passion is what gives meaning to our lives. It's what allows us to achieve success beyond our wildest imagination. Try to find a career path that you have a passion for.

We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.

I'll be happy if I can gain even the smallest place inside the literary imagination of U.S. readers.

But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?

Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success on the stage.

I like photographs which leave something to the imagination.

I definitely gravitate towards quality genre projects and genre of any kind whether it's science fiction, horror or really anything. I'm just drawn to quality. I don't think 'Darkness Falls' is horror; there isn't any gore by any stretch of the imagination.

I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose.

Never forget that the key to the situation lies in the will and not in the imagination.

Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.

The difference between the Parthenon and the World Trade Center, between a French wine glass and a German beer mug, between Bach and John Philip Sousa, between Sophocles and Shakespeare, between a bicycle and a horse, though explicable by historical moment, necessity, and destiny, is before all a difference of imagination.

Three centuries after the appearance of Franklin's 'Courant', it no longer requires a dystopic imagination to wonder who will have the dubious distinction of publishing America's last genuine newspaper. Few believe that newspapers in their current printed form will survive.

To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.

The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.

I guess I'm a very keen observer, and I'd like to think I have a good imagination.

A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

I'm an emotional sort of person in general and I have a vivid imagination, so I feel the whole spectrum of emotion strongly when I write.

Only in your imagination can you revise.

It was just very interesting to me that certain types of women inspire people's imagination, and all of them were very difficult women.

Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn't a very talented writer, but his imagination was wonderful.

I visualize things in my mind before I have to do them. It's like having a mental workshop.

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.

Ideas control the world.

We are incapable of leaving anything to the imagination and loath to leave anything out. Maniacal thoroughness has become our national verbal ideal.

When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.

Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.

The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.

Imagination is like the drunk man who lost his watch and must get drunk again to find it.

Richard Hugo taught me that anyone with a desire to write, an ear for language and a bit of imagination could become a writer. He also, in a way, gave me permission to write about northern Montana.

And, as I have said, it's made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren't external, how astonishing the mediums become! Victor Hugo said of his voices that they were like his own mental powers multiplied by five.

He brought imagination to the story of the Creation.

I hope that I'm sexy in a different kind of way than I think that a lot of girls are right now. I think a lot of girls in the public eye, especially musical artists, are just kind of objectified a little bit and wearing super-skimpy outfits and leaving nothing to the imagination.

Man lives by imagination.

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.

Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.

You can't do it unless you can imagine it.

Nature's imagination is so boundless compared to our own meager human imagination.

Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother?

It was David McCullough's 'The Johnstown Flood' that lit my imagination as to how I might one day go about writing book-length nonfiction, though my favorite of his books is 'Mornings on Horseback,' about the young Teddy Roosevelt.

I've got a pretty wild imagination, and a lot of times, I have to be reeled back in.