World Quotes

With its imagination and large sales, Apple has become the world's most valuable IT company. However people are starting to have doubts regarding Apple's silence on heavy metal pollution problems.

~ Ma Jun

I had an incredibly full life with my imagination: I used to have all sorts of trolls and things; I had a wonderful world around my toys and invented people. I don't mean I had imaginary friends; I just had this big imagination thing going on. I didn't need any imaginary friends, because I had so much other stuff going on.

~ Kate Bush

We're living in a time when the world has suddenly discovered India because it's run out of raw material for its imagination. The raw materials for imagination are inexhaustible here.

~ Deepak Chopra

'The Lord of the Rings,' published in the mid-1950s, was intended as a prehistory to our own world. It was perceived by Tolkien to be a small but significant episode in a vast alternate mythology constructed entirely out of his own imagination.

~ Peter Jackson

I suspect that even most conservatives would prefer to live in the kind of world conjured up in the liberals' imagination rather than in the kind of world we are in fact stuck with.

~ Thomas Sowell

The theater itself is a lie. Its deaths are mere special effects. Its tales never happened. Even the histories are distorted for dramatic effect. The theater is unnatural, a place of imagination. But the theater tells the audience something true: that the world requires judgments.

~ Virginia Postrel

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

~ Bryant H. Mcgill

I had this desire to see the world. I couldn't see any of it, but I saw it in my imagination, and that's why I always read books, and I could go to Mars or Middle Earth or the Hyborian age.

~ George R. R. Martin

The Jewish festival of freedom is the oldest continuously observed religious ritual in the world. Across the centuries, Passover has never lost its power to inspire the imagination of successive generations of Jews with its annually re-enacted drama of slavery and liberation.

~ Jonathan Sacks

I have a very strong imagination and have since I was a little kid. That is where a lot of my world comes from. It's like I'm off somewhere else. And I can have a problem in life because of that, because I'm always off in some other world thinking about something else. It's constant.

~ James Gunn

Syria may appear to be a small country, but it is just the type of entangled conflict that can lead to a world catastrophe. It does not take much imagination to see Syria as the Sarajevo of the 21st century, leading to world war.

~ Ahmed Zewail

When I see Bruce Banner becoming the Hulk, it's only a picture. My imagination has to do some of the work there, to impute feeling and everything. We're talking about something that's so surreal, it's just not possible within the world as we know it. So that requires a form that is not so literal.

~ Ta-Nehisi Coates

'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.

~ Nathan Fillion

I think imagination is a crazy thing, and that's what makes the world go around.

~ Shahid Khan

I feel like 'Amelie' is very much an extension of me. She's a contemporary woman who sees the world through her imagination.

~ Phillipa Soo

The aspect of kind of living in your imagination and creating a more romantic vision of the world than the reality that you're given - that's definitely something I can sort of relate to.

~ Alden Ehrenreich

With any kind of sci-fi, the imagination continues, and the world exists, and you create that in your own mind, and it lives in you.

~ Scott Bakula

I saw that publishing all over the world was deeply constrained by self-censorship, economics and political censorship, while the military-industrial complex was growing at a tremendous rate, and the amount of information that it was collecting about all of us vastly exceeded the public imagination.

~ Julian Assange

Once you've got a child to the point that they've discovered books, they're safe. There's a world of the imagination that when they're hurt or upset, they can move into, and it is wonderful.

~ John Rhys-Davies

I love sci-fi because it leads in the imagination, and I always say it has the most intelligent fans in the world.

~ Robert Carlyle

When France was the only reference for chefs to learn, you could go everywhere in the world, and they would copy dishes directly because they didn't have much expanded imagination or technique or knowledge.

~ Daniel Boulud

Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.

~ Ralph Fiennes

There's no artist in this world that doesn't enjoy the dream that if they have bad reviews now, the story of Keats can redeem them, in their fantasy or imagination, in the future. I think Keats' poem 'Endymion' is a really difficult poem, and I'm not surprised that a lot of people pulled it apart in a way.

~ Jane Campion

When you are a people's movement, you have one thing. Your only asset is people. And you have to deal with real people. Not the people of your imagination. Not the people you wish people would be. But people as they exist actually out there in the real world.

~ Norman Finkelstein

I don't agree with the sentiment 'write what you know.'... I think one should write what one doesn't know. The world is bigger and wider and more complex than our small subjective selves. One should prod, goad the imagination.

~ Cynthia Ozick

My children have been all over the world, and I think it's so good for them: expanding their horizons and imagination and seeing how other people live.

~ Keeley Hawes

I have always believed that the material world is governed by nonmaterial sources, so that in that sense 'English Music' is an exercise in the spiritual as well as the material. I have always been attracted to the Gothic and spiritual imagination, and I've always been interested in visionaries.

~ Peter Ackroyd

Only World War II, which mobilized 10 million draftees, could by any stretch of the imagination be called a people's war.

~ John Gregory Dunne

I ask questions. I watch the world. And what I have discovered is that the parts of my fiction that people most tell me are 'unbelievable' are those that are most closely based on the real, those least diluted by my imagination.

~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Ideas control the world.

~ James A. Garfield

Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.

~ Roy Lichtenstein

Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.

~ Lady Bird Johnson

A picture book is a small door to the enormous world of the visual arts, and they're often the first art a young person sees.

~ Tomie Depaola

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.

~ René Magritte

Through a painting we can see the whole world.

~ Hans Hofmann

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

~ George Santayana

The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.

~ Paul Strand

When you create art, the world has to wait.

~ Will Smith

So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.

~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.

~ Ezra Pound