Quotes About Imagination

Yes, that was the way it had all begun, the game of the hundred dresses. It all happened so suddenly and unexpectedly, with everybody falling right in, that even if you felt uncomfortable as Maddie had there wasn't anything you could do about it. Maddie wagged her head up and down. Yes, she repeated to herself, that was the way it began, that day, that bright blue day.

It kept humping up in the middle. Right now it looked more like a giant's skullcap

In the woods the bluebells seem Like a blue and magic dream, Blue water, light and air Flow among them there. But the eager girl who pulls Bluebells up in basketfuls When she gets them home will find The magic left behind.

To me who dreamed so much as a child, who made a dreamworld in which I was the heroine of an unending story, the lives of people around me continued to have a certain storybook quality. I learned something which has stood me in good stead many times — The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.

The most unhappy people in the world are those who face the days without knowing what to do with their time. But if you have more projects than you have time for, you are not going to be an unhappy person. This is as much a question of having imagination and curiosity as it is of actually making plans.

THE GREATEST GIVE YOU CAN GIVE A CHILD IS AN IMAGINATION

I say to the young: Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively.

masa depan itu milik mereka yang percaya akan keindahan mimpi mereka

Perhaps the older generation is often to blame with its cautious warning: "Take a job that will give you security, not adventure." But I say to the young: "Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of a competence.

The future is for those who believe in the beauty of their dreams

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.

The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create to create life in that isolation from life.

Hold on tight to your dream

I love to fly. I always wanted to fly. It's been one of my dreams since I was 3 years old. I remember saying to my mom, 3 years old, every day, 'I can fly!' Living on the ninth floor, it was dangerous.

I'm not wise, but I read a lot of novels.

I had always considered sex an ultimate sticky reality, the least mediated contact possible with another body. Instead, after that experience, I was convinced that sex is an extreme product of the imagination. The greater the pleasure, the more the other is only a dream, a nocturnal reaction of belly, breasts, mouth, anus?of every isolated inch of skin?to the caresses and thrusts of a vague entity definable according to the necessities of the moment.

Childhood is a tissue of lies that endure in the past tense

Nelle favole si fa come si vuole e nella realtà si fa come si può.

Would I know how to imagine those things without her? Would I know how to give life to every object, let it bend in unison with mine?

Quiero que ella esté, por eso escribo. Quiero que borre, que añada, que colabore en nuestra historia volcando en ella, según su inspiración, las cosas que sabe, que dijo o que pensó

The 'right reading' is an invention of academics and critics. Every reader gets from the book he is reading nothing else but his book. The shelves where we line up the volumes we've read are deceptive. We have available there only titles, covers, pages. But the books we've truly read are phantoms conjured up by reading with no rules.

En los cuentos se hace lo que se quiere y en la vida real se hace lo que se puede.

the disgusting face of things alone was not enough for writing a novel: without imagination it would seem not a true face but a mask.