Quotes About Insight

Is imagination dependent upon experience, or is experience influenced by imagination?

Reading centers on finding yourself in a book. -- Sherman Alexie

It seems to me that the problem with diaries, and the reason that most of them are so boring, is that every day we vacillate between examining our hangnails and speculating on cosmic order.

Don't be daft, lad. I've worked with more loonies than you've had hot dinners. And I don't just mean the offenders.

Oh, I'm interested in everything, Joe. That's why I'm a bloody brilliant detective.

her judgement had been spoton.

Perez might irritate the shit out of him, but he was the best judge of character Taylor knew. He watched men like David Attenborough watched animals.

There was a sort of magic in his asking the right questions the first time, picking up the clues in a situation, knowing when it was time to move on.

People were always more complex than she realized and she was always too quick to jump to conclusions.

the future depends on seeing reality clearly. But for some reason, we are easily manipulated and deceived.

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

Look at Julie Etchingham and Katie Derham, none of us are spring chickens frankly, I don't think people want to watch someone who's wet behind the ears, you have to look like you understand what you are reading about.

Once we start hitting lyrical themes that can whack you from all these different perspectives, we know we're onto something special.

If you pay attention to the world, it's an amazing place. If you don't, it's whatever you think it is.

The function of the killer and watching him - whatever that says about the world in which we live - it was always more about that world than it was about the actual watching.

I'm a bit of a magpie: whatever I see or hear or read feeds into the songs.

Our job as the game creators or developers - the programmers, artists, and whatnot - is that we have to kind of put ourselves in the user's shoes. We try to see what they're seeing, and then make it, and support what we think they might think.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

I've got no business acumen whatsoever.

Sometimes, I believe I actually see the wheels in my brain turning.

I always would dream of making music videos. Whenever I make music, I always have a visual in my mind. I always see things.

Whenever I go out, so many people who respect me ask me what to do in a certain situation. A lot of times, I didn't know the answers because sometimes I was going through the same sort of thing. But then later on, I would think of things that people told me.

Whenever people ask where I get my sick and twisted ideas from, I reply, 'Just open your eyes.'

I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.