The genius is not in how much Stanley Kubrick does in “2001: A Space Odyssey,'' but in how little. This is the… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Why does a literary scholar study the world of "fiction"? To show us that the facts can never be understood except in… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
By the time you rise through the ranks, the culture of homogenization has bred the spirit and imagination out of you. — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
When you draw in a tight, controlled style, you open yourself up to - in my case, my own - criticism that… — Jessica Abel Copy Share Image
When you worry about something, you are using your immense power of imagination negatively. You are imagining the worst, and as you… — Rhonda Byrne Copy Share Image
Most of the songs I write just very directly from my life. I don't have a big imagination. Whenever I tried to… — Rivers Cuomo Copy Share Image
It was David McCullough's 'The Johnstown Flood' that lit my imagination as to how I might one day go about writing book-length… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
Political correctness may make for smooth edges, but it does little for the imagination and nothing for the arts. Writers work best… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
Most organizations do not value imagination, do not encourage it, do not reward it. In many cases, they don't even think about… — Jay S. Walker Copy Share Image
Me liking you = Reality. You liking me = Fantasy. Me and you = too good to be true..... — Alvin Copy Share Image
Perhaps our imagination needs crime stories to fulfill some craving we have, as a way to assuage a darkness in ourselves. — James Nesbitt Copy Share Image
There's nothing inherently dirty about sex, but if you try real hard and use your imagination you can overcome that. — Lewis Grizzard Copy Share Image
We are all guilty of crime the great crime of not living life to the full. But we are all potentially free.… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I think acting is a mixture of instinct, imagination and inventiveness. All you can learn as an actor is basic technique. — Christopher Lee Copy Share Image
The imagination made us human, but being human, becoming more human, is a greater burden than we imagined. We have no choice… — Wright Morris Copy Share Image
Just so we're clear, I'm not zen by any stretch of the imagination. However, what I've read about change being the only… — Patrick Fabian Copy Share Image
l'imagination m'apportait des délices infinies. En recouvrant ce que les hommes appellent la raison, faudra-t-il regretter de les avoir perdues...? My imagination… — Gerard De Nerval Copy Share Image
You never forget the books you loved as a kid. You never forget the poems you memorized, the first book you read… — Meg Medina Copy Share Image
Engineering problems are under-defined, there are many solutions, good, bad and indifferent. The art is to arrive at a good solution. This… — Ove Arup Copy Share Image
The history of reform is always identical; it is the comparison of the idea with the fact. Our modes of living are… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It's your imagination It's your creation You create what you want When you want It's your illistion The darkness is were you… — Myothersweetangel199 Copy Share Image
“Using your imagination means that you are using your most powerful tool of creation, manifestation and modification” — Dorothy Holder Copy Share Image
I'm not writing non-fiction. I don't feel anything about me as a kid was unique. Except that I had more interest in… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Most scripts you need to stretch your imagination just to see what it would look like on screen; 'Neverwhere' was not like… — Paterson Joseph Copy Share Image
“How could we have discovered great lands, if we dare not travel?” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“Our feelings, thoughts, beliefs and even expectations act as filters through which our imaginations initiate the process of generating our particular experienced… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
“The disease of the hypochondriac consists in this: that certain bodily sensations do not so much indicate a really existing disease in… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Working with Harry Lambert has brought so much fun and imagination into my personal style. — Emma Corrin Copy Share Image
Fantasy is often better than reality. It's much more inspiring not to go to places than to go. — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
“She loved the smell of books. She loved everything about books. It was her escape. She traveled all over the world with… — Soroosh Shahrivar Copy Share Image
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson's life in space-time colored his liberated life of the imagination. — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
All I try to do is portray Indians as we are, in creative ways. With imagination and poetry. I think a lot… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort… — William Robertson Smith Copy Share Image
I talk about going to his [George W. Bush's] Inauguration and crying when he took the oath, 'cause I was so afraid… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
Scientists have to have a metaphor. All scientists start with imagination. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
![“I talk about going to his [George W. Bush's] Inauguration and crying when he took the oath, 'cause I was so afraid he was going to "wreck the economy and muck up the drinking water"... the failure of my pessimistic imagination at that moment boggles my mind now.” quote by Sarah Vowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8d7/sarah-vowell-2016_causes_i-talk-about-going-to-his-george-w-bush_1287893.jpg)
