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.

Ashton Kutcher

In e-commerce, your prices have to be better because the consumer has to take a leap of faith in your product.

J. J. Abrams

It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.

Kandyse McClure

Take a leap of faith. You will either land somewhere new or learn to fly.

Warren Miller

Gravity is love and every turn is a leap of faith.

Deborah Norville

There is something in even the darkest situations that we can make a positive in our lives.

Todd Jones

When I left, I didn't like the situation and didn't want to be here.

Jim Roberts

This was a situation where everybody's got to step up and do what they do.

Lakhdar Brahimi

There again, that is a fundamental principle: no two situations are alike.

Brian Eno

I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens.

Brian Eno

Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.

Frank Verrastro

Most of these supply situations are fraught with some kind of peril.

Gary Williams

We're in a tough situation right now. We'll find out what we're made of.

Herman Edwards

We're in a situation where time is of the essence,