Quotes About Imagination

They were playing the music, minds, bodies, and souls stretched near to the limit, but it was also true that the music was playing them. A balancing act of excruciating fragility, but to Claude sweet beyond words, sweet beyond imagining.

Good authors worry about genres great authors don't.

Buku adalah benda luar biasa. Buku itu seperti taman indah penuh dengan bunga aneka-warna, seperti permadani terbang yang sanggup melayangkan kita ke negeri-negeri tak dikenal sebelumnya.

A novel is an interminable effort. You think until you are weary. You write until you are ready to scream. You stop. You rest. But you have to get back to it. You have to pick up the threads, revive your enthusiasm, recapture the mood.

When you imagine mistakes, there can be no self-defense.

Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part on the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him.

This myth he'd made out of intricate movements and imagination, out of moonlight and love, out of prayers older than Adam, and gray cliffs and crimson shadows, laments and rivers of martyrs - what had it come to at last? When the waves receded, the shores of Time would spread out there clean, empty, shining with infinite grains of memory and little else.

The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him.

This is the perspective which you create with your own belief, and beliefs can be manipulated by imagination. You've learned only a limited way of looking at the universe. Now you must make the universe your own creation.

You never talk of likelihoods on Arrakis. You speak only of possibilities.

Myths are not fiction, but history seen with a poet's eyes and recounted in a poet's terms.

The future remains uncertain and so it should, for it is the canvas upon which we paint our desires.

What senses do we lack that we can not see or hear another world all around us?

Expediency was the first word in his catechism, although he gave proper lip-service to the precepts of the Butlerians. Machines could not be fashioned in the image of a man's mind, he said, but he betrayed by every action that he preferred machines to men, statistics to individuals, the faraway general view to the intimate personal touch requiring imagination and initiative. As

Se desejos fossem peixes, todos nós lançaríamos as redes.

Expediency was the first word in his catechism, although he gave proper lip-service to the precepts of the Butlerians. Machines could not be fashioned in the image of a man's mind, he said, but he betrayed by every action that he preferred machines to men, statistics to individuals, the faraway general view to the intimate personal touch requiring imagination and initiative.

If you are corruptible and your imagination is confined to worries about loss of power, you exist in a self-destructive system

The best art imitates life in a compelling way. If it imitates a dream, it must be a dream of life. Otherwise, there is no place where we can connect. Our plugs don't fit.

La memoria non ricattura mai la realtà. La memoria ricostruisce. Tutte le ricostruzioni cambiano l'originale, diventando quadri di riferimento esterni che inevitabilmente si discostano dal vero.

Children of Dune is an exciting, vividly imagined novel. It is Frank Herbert at the top of his craft. Brian Herbert Seattle, Washington January 11, 2008

The hands move, the lips move- Ideas gush from his words, And his eyes devour! He is an island of Selfdom

Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind.

A universe of surprises is what I pray for

Paul hesitated. There'd been no dwarf in the vision, but all else remained identical.