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.
I do believe the aura of the Olympics is the greatest platform for sport and when one achieves success there it is sure to fire up the imagination of the youth.
Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.
Everything is creative. It's all relative to me. No matter what, you've gotta use your imagination, use your senses.
This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.
A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.
I find that nothing but very close and intense application to subjects of a scientific nature now seems at all to keep my imagination from running wild, or to stop up the void which seems to be left in my mind from a want of excitement.
Those who have learned to walk on the threshold of the unknown worlds, by means of what are commonly termed par excellence the exact sciences, may then, with the fair white wings of imagination, hope to soar further into the unexplored amidst which we live.
Use your imagination. Look around the kitchen and see what you can use.
I was a wild, mischievous kid, and I had tremendous imagination. Any experience I had, I'd try to reenact it.
Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination.
I do not stick to rules when cooking. I rely on my imagination.
You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven't been able to do it. Maybe somebody else can.
Novels aren't pedagogical instruments, or instructions in law or physics or any other discipline. A novel has to be an emotional experience, a trip of the imagination, and because science has raised so many issues that concern and affect humans, it's a good starting place for me.
One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.
I love costumes. I love getting dressed up because it really helps my imagination make the leap to believe that I am who I say I am.
The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible.
It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others.
The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are told creates a real poverty of imagination and it's a big problem.
To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan... believe... act!
Justice is to be found only in imagination.
The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.
His imagination conceived and bore - worlds; but nothing in these worlds became alive until he discovered its true and living name. The name was the breath of life; and, sooner or later, he invariably found it.
I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.
I'm really quite normal. My imagination has some serious kinks in it, that's all.
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.
Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination.
The greatest gift you have been given is the gift of your imagination - what do you dream of wanting to do?
Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.
Doubt is the father of invention.
Imagination makes us shape better stories, sure, but it also allows us to multiply possibilities.
Nonfiction is both easier and harder to write than fiction. It's easier because the facts are already laid out before you, and there is already a narrative arc. What makes it harder is that you are not free to use your imagination and creativity to fill in any missing gaps within the story.
I've learned that borders are where the actual ends, but also where the imagination and the story begins.
Imagination allows you to bend the rules of the temporal world.
I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from.
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, it turns out, is a great deal like reporting in your own head. Here is a paradox of fiction-writing. You are crafting something from nothing, which means, in one sense, that none of it is true. Yet in the writing, and perhaps in the reading, some of a character's actions or lines are truer than others.
There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
When it came to political power, blacks need not apply. Add to this steaming stew the growing tensions over the Vietnam War and the movement for civil rights, and you had plenty of elements to fire the imagination of a novice journalist.
My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest.
I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I'm likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination.
I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.
I can't work completely out of my imagination. I must put my foot in a bit of truth; and then I can fly free.
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.
I made a real specific decision when I came out of school and most artists were writing about home - if you were a woman, you were writing about being a woman - and I decided not to do that, write about what you know. That's not what I do. I went as far away from home as possible in terms of the development of my imagination.
We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.