One thing about ‚Star Wars‘ that I’m really proud of is that it expands the imagination. That’s why I like the ‚Star Wars‘ toys.

Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation – not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.

I have fun with ideas; I play with them.

And we can see the positive impacts right here at Solyndra. Less than a year ago, we were standing on what was an empty lot. But through the Recovery Act, this company received a loan to expand its operations. This new factory is the result of those loans.

He didn’t come out of my belly, but my God, I’ve made his bones, because I’ve attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I’m so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.

We can fear things into existence. Fear looks into the future and imagines the worst that can happen.

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

I’ve never been able to witness the birth of an idea. It seems as if one second, there’s nothing particularly going on, and the next second, something is there. It’s coming up out of my unconscious, up from places that I don’t even know where they are.

I think long term you can see Tesla establishing factories in Europe, in other parts of the U.S. and in Asia.

I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.

People think you have to go through something to write about it, and you absolutely do not. You can write about, like, a shoe. It’s a story.

You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

I felt like, for so many years – and I still even feel it – as a girl, you can’t really expect to go on stage and dress like a boy and jump around and scream with the audience and mosh and stuff, and every time that happens, I feel really proud.

Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle.

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

The human race is governed by its imagination.

I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

Every day, the people I meet inspire me… every day, they make me proud… every day they remind me how blessed we are to live in the greatest nation on earth.

To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the U.S.A. won the medal of gold. The Greeks said, ‚You’re better than the Cassius of old.‘

Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That’s not a guess, it’s a guarantee. With pride, it’s not a matter of ‚if‘ we will fall, but ‚when.‘ There are no exceptions.

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

When I was making ‚Star Wars,‘ I wasn’t restrained by any kind of science. I simply said, ‚I’m going to create a world that’s fun and interesting, makes sense, and seems to have a reality to it.‘

Tobacco exports should be expanded aggressively because Americans are smoking less.

I’ve always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated.

Obviously this song is an achievement for me in my career, but what makes me really feel good is to make Latinos feel proud. To provoke that pride that a pop figure and someone so big in music globally like Drake would sing with me completely in Spanish and create this hit ‚MIA.‘ That’s the best part of it.

It’s like, remember who you always were, where you came from, who your parents were, how they raised you. Because that authentic self is going to follow you all through life, so make sure that it’s solid so it’s something that you can hold on and be proud of for the rest of your life.

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

To create a new standard, it takes something that’s not just a little bit different; it takes something that’s really new and really captures people’s imagination, and the Macintosh, of all the machines I’ve ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.

America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

I had the most magical childhood, running free and going anywhere I wanted to in my head.

But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know. There’s no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it’s wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

The boys know they’re from Southeast Asia, and they have their food and their music and their friends, and they have a pride particular to them.

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.

You always want your people to be proud of what you have accomplished.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

I can make something magical and wonderful out of nothing.

I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they’d be, what position they’d play and so on.

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

All good books have one thing in common – they are truer than if they had really happened.

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.

In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.

It was the money from ‚Star Wars‘ and ‚Jaws‘ that allowed the theaters to build their multiplexes, which allowed an opening up of screens.

See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

I thought Star Wars was too wacky for the general public.

Observations indicate that the universe is expanding at an ever increasing rate. It will expand forever, getting emptier and darker.

‚For Whom the Bell Tolls‘ was a problem which I carried on each day. I knew what was going to happen in principle. But I invented what happened each day I wrote.

I think that the Bible teaches that homosexuality is a sin, but the Bible also teaches that pride is a sin, jealousy is a sin, and hate is a sin, evil thoughts are a sin. So I don’t think that homosexuality should be chosen as the overwhelming sin that we are doing today.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

Cowardice… is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

None of the films I’ve done was designed for a mass audience, except for ‚Indiana Jones.‘ Nobody in their right mind thought ‚American Graffiti‘ or ‚Star Wars‘ would work.

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.