Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Hume

In the sphere of natural investigation, as in poetry and painting, the delineation of that which appeals most strongly to the imagination, derives its collective interest from the vivid truthfulness with which the individual features are portrayed.

David Hume

Let us fix our attention out of ourselves as much as possible; let us chase our imagination to the heavens, or to the utmost limits of the universe; we never really advance a step beyond ourselves, nor can conceive any kind of existence, but those perceptions, which have appeared in that narrow compass.

Astrid Lindgren

What the world of tomorrow will be like is greatly dependent on the power of imagination in those who are learning to read today.

Astrid Lindgren

Everything great that ever happened in this world happened first in somebody’s imagination.

Derek Jacobi

I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination.

Derek Jacobi

Ultimately it's a leap of faith and a leap of imagination to put yourself back in time into those conditions and situations and see how you would react.

Denise Levertov

Mediocrity is perhaps due not so much to lack of imagination as to lack of faith in the imagination, lack of the capacity for this abandon.

Diana Gabaldon

I thought I could make out Jamie's Highland screech, but that was likely imagination; they all sounded equally demented.

Blaise Pascal

Put the world's greatest philosopher on a plank that is wider than need be; if there is a precipe below, although his reason may convince him that he is safe, his imagination will prevail.

David Brainerd

There is a God in heaven who overrules all things for the best; and this is the comfort of my soul.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Heaven is filled with those who have this in common: they are forgiven and they forgive.

Al Franken

I don't know what happens to you after you die. I'm not banking on there being, like, a heaven.

Charles Kingsley

Do what thou dost as if the earth were heaven, and thy last day the day of judgment.

Blake Lively

When I saw my first movie, I was fine, but I thought, "Oh, my heavens. It's not about just standing there on my mark and saying these lines. I need to actually act."

Bill Hybels

Live each day with an open ear toward heaven, eager to respond to any whisper from God.

Lord Mansfield

Let justice be done, though the heavens fall.

Auguste Comte

The heavens declare the glory of Kepler and Newton.

Augustus Hare

Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

David Icke

The only revolution that will change anything is a revolution of perception.

David Hume

I may venture to affirm the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement.

David Dreman

Bank One has got one of the best credit card divisions, ... The perception of investors is that financial services stocks are affected by interest rates and they're not.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I feel that TV and film feed off each other well. It's more in the perception of the viewer than it is of the actor.

Denis Leary

All knowledge is ultimately rooted in metaphorical (or analogical) modes of perception and thought.

Deepika Padukone

It is a common perception that actors don’t get along.

Brian Greene

Intelligence is the ability to take in information from the world and to find patterns in that information that allow you to organize your perceptions and understand the external world.

Byron Katie

The whole world is simply my story, projected back to me on the screen of my own perception. All of it.

Peter Andersen

The perception is that they take too long and are too expensive.