Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: imagination

I do a lot of curiosity buying; I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination.

The initial motivation of the experiment which led to this discovery was a subconscious feeling for the inexhaustible wealth of nature, a wealth that goes far beyond the imagination of man.

The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.

The imagination is part of the arsenal that actors draw from.

Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.

I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination.

I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.

I feel very giddy with the idea of making my imagination take form and being able to put on a show where people leave feeling like they've experienced something.

Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience - anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form.

Literature has always been the greatest fuel for my imagination.

When you're even on a regular movie set, you still have to suspend your disbelief. You're working there with only 3 walls of a room, and you're in costume, and you have a camera 6 inches from you and have a crew of 75 watching you. So even there, you have to crank up your imagination.

A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.

It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?

You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.

If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted.

You know, working as an actor, I'm always working within my own imagination.

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.

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.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

It's just a way of trying to get to a third thing that's not particular to any quote-unquote genre. It's been great for me; it's really opened me up and gotten me to use that part of my imagination. It's very scary in a lot of ways, and just as exciting.

Busted is not the ideal band I'd like to be in by any stretch of the imagination.

Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.

In the imagination, Harlem will always be the spiritual capital of black excellence in America.

I always have this imagination, something I want to use. I don't understand the idea of leisure time.

Essentially, I'm untrained, so I just go with my imagination and try to put myself as solidly as I can into the shoes of whatever person I'm going to be playing.

Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

I love theatrics and have a huge imagination: Why would I want to sit onstage and sing a bunch of ballads back-to-back?

I have truly been inspired by the struggle and triumphs of so many women that dare to break new ground in all aspects of society, and those who have pushed the boundaries of human imagination.

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination.

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.

I always imagined I could be what I wanted to be.

I've got research, I have my own life experience I can apply, and I have my imagination.

I can fix dishwashers. I was brought up in a castle with no money and lots of imagination. I learnt a lot about plumbing at an early age.

I enjoy working on a movie that lets your imagination run wild, it's great to be a part of and watch.

The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older.

What is the real purpose behind the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus? They seem like greater steps toward faith and imagination, each with a payoff. Like cognitive training exercises.

I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I'm really scared of being alone; because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman.

Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave.

I guess what I've learned is that there are no boundaries when it comes to imagination. It's limitless.

My imagination is my polestar; I steer by that.

In The Touch, the love scenes are the same as they were in The Thorn Birds or anything else I've ever written. I find a way of saying that either it was heaven or hell but in a way that still leaves room for the reader to use their own imagination.

I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination.

I'm not a passive person by any stretch of the imagination.