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.

Some men see things as they are, and say why. I dream of things that never were, and say why not.

All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words ‚Ich bin ein Berliner!‘

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it’s only money… they don’t know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

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

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

From the boys‘ point of view, scouting puts them into fraternity-gangs, which is their natural organisation, whether for games, mischief, or loafing; it gives them a smart dress and equipments; it appeals to their imagination and romance; and it engages them in an active, open-air life.

When you are full of pride on the inside, it makes you stiff, stubborn, and creates strife with others.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

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

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

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

I speak to you only as an American who happens to be an American Negro and one who is proud of that heritage. We ask for nothing special. We ask only that we be permitted to compete on an even basis, and if we are not worthy, then the competition shall, per se, eliminate us.

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

Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally. So I get up early in the morning, 4 o’clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that’s enough. In the afternoon, I run. The next day, the dream will continue.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

I never played with anything like toys.

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.

I am really proud that I am one of the artists that has the opportunity to be on magazine covers and to be in the movies.

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

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

When you’re around kids you can be a little kid yourself and pretend that life is magic and you don’t have to be one of those sweaty people going to work every day.

The diversity of India, of our civilization, is actually a thing of beauty, which is something we are extremely proud of.

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

Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one’s reason; bad people stir one’s imagination.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

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

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

Scientists have to have a metaphor. All scientists start with imagination.

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

I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter Darth Vader. That’s science fiction; it isn’t going to happen.

The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.

When I was a kid, I thought movies just came from air. I thought they just appeared.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one’s self.

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best – make it all up – but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.

Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see where they are going to lead.

The mind of the painter must resemble a mirror, which always takes the colour of the object it reflects and is completely occupied by the images of as many objects as are in front of it.

Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone… Bad food is fake food… food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people’s ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives.

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. ‚Good pride‘ represents our dignity and self-respect. ‚Bad pride‘ is the deadly sin of superiority that reeks of conceit and arrogance.

My goal is just to be respected as a man when I walk down the street with my family. I don’t care what your job is, you’re not gonna talk down to me, you’re not gonna try to get a rise out of me. I’m a man first. And in establishing that, some interesting things have happened.

A reader can never tell if it’s a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you’re reading it, they’re the same. It’s a thimble. It’s in the book.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

We hunger to understand, so we invent myths about how we imagine the world is constructed – and they’re, of course, based upon what we know, which is ourselves and other animals. So we make up stories about how the world was hatched from a cosmic egg or created after the mating of cosmic deities or by some fiat of a powerful being.

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.

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.

For me, writing a novel is like having a dream. Writing a novel lets me intentionally dream while I’m still awake. I can continue yesterday’s dream today, something you can’t normally do in everyday life.

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

No one even knows one percent of the fabulous history of Man; but thanks to history, we know about occurrences that go beyond the limits of the imaginable.

The story being told in ‚Star Wars‘ is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when you’re in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but they’re actually not.

If you realize all the time what’s kind of wonderful – that is, if we expand our experience into wilder and wilder regions of experience – every once in a while, we have these integrations when everything’s pulled together into a unification, in which it turns out to be simpler than it looked before.

As long as I live, I will never forget that day 21 years ago when I raised my hand and took the oath of citizenship. Do you know how proud I was? I was so proud that I walked around with an American flag around my shoulders all day long.

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

My imagination is a twisted place.

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.

You see things; and you say ‚Why?‘ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‚Why not?‘

Books are alive, you see. They’re not dead, they’re alive.

There is a danger that threatens everyone in the church, all of us. The danger of worldliness. It leads us to vanity, arrogance and pride.