Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dougray Scott

You'd have to have one hell of an imagination to completely make up a story, but historians are very anal about what they think should be portrayed on screen. Thankfully they don't make movies; we do.

Pat Conroy

Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.

Geraldine McCaughrean

I had a very happy childhood, but I still used my imagination as a leisure resort.

London Fletcher

We still have a lot of work to do. By no stretch of the imagination are we comfortable with what happened.

Alan Greenspan

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.

Philip Schultz

I do think that there is a profound reservoir of creativity and imagination in everyone I've ever met, and sometimes if someone is persistent and perversely obstinate enough to persevere, then they want to be helped. There is a way to help them.

Paul Bloom

Imagination tends to be truly useful if accompanied by the power of mental control - if the worlds in one's head can be purposefully manipulated and distinguished from the real one outside it.

Paul Bloom

Imagination is Reality Lite - a useful substitute when the real pleasure is inaccessible, too risky, or too much work.

Albert Einstein

To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.

Gordon B. Hinckley

If there were no immortality there would be no need for temples. There would be no need for eternal marriage if there were no eternity.

Brad Paisley

When you're old-fashioned like I am, you know marriage is forever. Those vows are a promise.

Nuno Bettencourt

A band is like a marriage - you don't know why it works, but when it does, everything feels right.

Mark Twain

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.

Johnny Weissmuller

No marriage can stand up under the strain of incessant association.

Richie Sambora

A band is like a marriage, and if you're in a marriage with someone, and you lose yourself in that marriage, the relationship is over, really.

E. W. Howe

To avoid mistakes and regrets, always consult your wife before engaging in a flirtation.

William Shakespeare

Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee, And for thy maintenance commits his body To painful labour both by sea and land, To watch the night in storms, the day in cold, Whilst thou liest warm at home, secure and safe; And craves no other tribute at thy hands But love, fair looks and true obedience; Too little payment for so great a debt.

William Shakespeare

When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Juvenal

Wisdom triumphs over chance.

Jamaica Kincaid

It was hollow, my triumph, I could feel that, but I held on to it just the same.

Iris Murdoch

There is no triumph of good, and if there were it would not be a triumph of good.

George Eliot

The tendency toward good in human nature has a force which no creed can utterly counteract, and which insures the ultimate triumph of that tendency over all dogmatic perversions.

Kathie Lee Gifford

If I could learn to treat triumph and disaster the same, then I would find bliss.

Michel Houellebecq

The triumph of vegetation is total.

Patricia McCormick

Simply to endure is to triumph.

Publilius Syrus

He is twice a conqueror, who can restrain himself in the hour of triumph.

Gunter Grass

When Satan's not in the mood, virtue triumphs. Hasn't even Satan a right not to be in the mood once in a while?