I discovered that my imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me.

- Kazuo Ishiguro

Writing never had the immediate gratification I was looking for.

- Paul Shaffer

There's such an immediate intimacy with film that you just don't get in theater.

- Patrick Wilson

You write a scene, and it works or it doesn't. It's immediate.

- Nick Cave

Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.

- Max Planck

Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.

- Marquis de Sade

I was about 29 or 30, and I started writing monologues for myself. I felt I got more immediate encouragement from that than I ever had in acting.

- Liz Tuccillo

Just try to do the right thing, and that's immediate karma: 'I feel good about myself.'

- Linda Thompson

I don't know if I've ever derived such an immediate sense of calm and well-being from any book as I did from 'Right Ho, Jeeves.' It was like I was Pac-Man and the book was a power-up.

- Lev Grossman

My immediate family is real close-knit.

- Kenan Thompson

Maurice would prance into a room, you know, and his presence was immediate.

- Barry Gibb

Complainant received immediate lacerations of the credibility.

- Jimmy Breslin

I think when you first start out, you're writing books that are about your immediate place.

- Jami Attenberg

I think we're all hooked, I feel my own hook-ness on immediate gratification you know. I want what I want.

- Jeff Bridges

And dance is wonderful because dance is so immediate.

- Graeme Murphy

I always have a million things going on at once, but I try to put my energy into the most immediate need.

- Gabrielle Reece

I have two children. They are more fun than anything in the world, and it's more immediate fun than the hard slog of writing.

- Denise Mina

Theatre is immediate gratification.

- Chita Rivera

If you're a member of my family, whether immediate or extended, and you want to see my show, don't.

- Chelsea Handler

Whenever you do a new interpretation of a great, previous text of any kind, you always look for some kind of immediate significance right now.

- Bartlett Sher