I accept that there may be things far grander and more incomprehensible than we can possibly imagine.
Yes, I was correctly quoted in saying I introduced sex into films in the 20’s, but it was sex in good taste and left a great deal to one’s imagination.
To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.
He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.
Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.
If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
I’ve done a lot of bad things. Use your imagination.
There’s just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little bit about, but you can’t know it all, and that’s where imagination can work.
Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.
Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.
But I’m never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is. The limits of my imagination is the only thing that’s gonna stop me.
To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.
Never forget that the key to the situation lies in the will and not in the imagination.
I do not stick to rules when cooking. I rely on my imagination.
I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
I don’t know what the next American revolution is going to be like, but we might be able to imagine it if your imagination were rich enough.
It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough to ensure that the poor have access to adequate medical care.
Imagination needs to be fed.
I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.
The imagination is a pretty precious source of protection.
The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
Vision – It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.
The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.
Imagination creates some big monsters.
A viewer’s imagination is a powerful storyteller, and can often come up with things way more frightening than what you can explicitly show in a horror movie… try to engage that imagination, and the results can be magical.
Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.
You know what’s better than building things up in your imagination? Building things up in real life.
I don’t know exactly how I end up with some of these roles. It mystifies me sometimes, but I am a fan of sci-fi. I love being taken into a strange world, and when it’s told with imagination and credibility, I love being taken on that trip. I always have.
A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.
My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.
Imagination allows you to bend the rules of the temporal world.
What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out.
Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.
I stare out the window and reflect on the similarity between writing and saving a life and the inevitable failure of one’s imagination and one’s goals and ambitions to create a character or a life worth saving.
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.
Mine is not an autonomous imagination.
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.
Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American democratic system was an early political version of Napster.
He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.
The imagination is part of the arsenal that actors draw from.
A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate.
The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one’s own imagination.
You are indebted to you imagination for three-fourths of your importance.
When James Bond presses the watch and the car explodes, the writer doesn’t go into the science of it. One should leave it to the leap of faith. I have tried to explain as much as possible, and what I can’t, I have left it to people’s imagination.
We also maintain – again with perfect truth – that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination.
True change takes place in the imagination.
I think humans have always felt watched back by whatever is out there flickering in the distance. What excites me is what the imagination creates, not simply in explanation of what is there but also to explain or justify the feeling of awe and attachment that the heavens inspire.
Only in your imagination can you revise.
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
My mother was making $135 a week, but she had resilience and imagination. She might take frozen vegetables, cook them with garlic, onion and Spam, and it would taste like a four-star dinner.
Liberty: One of Imagination’s most precious possessions.
I don’t think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
Imagination is an instrument of survival.
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
Every human has four endowments – self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.
It’s a failure of imagination if you can only write what you know – we have to be able to imagine different worlds.
The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
You know, working as an actor, I’m always working within my own imagination.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason’s imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.
We have the universe to roam in in imagination. It is our virtue to be infinitely varied. The worst tyranny is uniformity.
Love doesn’t grow on trees like apples in Eden – it’s something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too.
The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations – like that of artistic imagination.
I had been a reporter for 15 years when I set out to write my first novel. I knew how to research an article or profile a subject – skills that I assumed would be useless when it came to fiction. It was from my imagination that the characters in my story would emerge.
Imagination has a great deal to do with winning.
Death is the tyrant of the 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.
Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.
