Quotes About Imagination

LEGGE DI HALDANE L'universo non è soltanto più bizzarro di quanto ci immaginiamo: è più bizzarro di quanto ci possiamo immaginare.

I can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the emissaries are coming.

But the only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

I think what was frustrating to see a lot of good people go. You don't picture it, you don't imagine it, don't think it could happen. When it does, you are puzzled.

I did have a thing for mazes. When I was a kid, I remember drawing little mazes constantly and puzzles. I loved that.

Growing up in Delhi, India, I did puzzles, explored numbers, and searched for patterns in everyday settings long before I ever saw an equation.

One of my favourite things to think about is, if you could be invisible and go back in time, where would you go? I've always said ancient Egypt. I would love to see them building the pyramids, and I've always had a real fascination with medieval time and monarchy in medieval times.

I'd always thought that if Python was going to go on at all, it'd be nice to get into storylines.

I like that feeling of discombobulation that comes in creating an absurd world that doesn't make sense. 'Monty Python' does a good job of it; 'Bugs Bunny,' too.

'Monty Python And The Holy Grail' is a hugely important movie to me. I remember watching it for the first time on cable when I was about 13 years old.

My greatest qualification for writing fiction was my ability to lie with a straight face as a child.

Don't be afraid to make things up. Never fear being exposed as a fraud. Experts make things up all the time. They're qualified to.

Everyone is not able, or inclined, to write poetry in the narrower sense any more than everyone is qualified to take part in a walking race. But just as all of us can and do walk, so all of us can and do use language poetically.

As artists, I think that one of the good qualities we have is that we're imaginative. We're resourceful. We like challenges.

Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.

Fairytales have always got to have that scary quality, as long as you make them laugh.

Doc Savage, Indiana Jones, Flash Gordon... these were the kinds of characters I was thinking about as I was developing Jonas Quantum because there aren't that many brand new characters being introduced anymore.

Feynman once said, 'Science is imagination in a straitjacket.' It is ironic that in the case of quantum mechanics, the people without the straitjackets are generally the nuts.

Every quarter, we give an award for a breakthrough idea even if it doesn't make it to market.

I think when you get Robert Griffin, one of the most explosive quarterbacks to ever play the position, in a Mike Shanahan-type system, the possibilities are very exciting, I think, with Mike Shanahan's imagination.

I remember asking my mom, 'Can you be the quarterback and the drum major at halftime?' I mean it's like, what in the world? I wanted to go play quarterback, and I wanted to lead the band. I don't know how old I was but I vaguely remember asking them that.

I mean, if you told me I would be one of the quarterbacks of the New York Giants when I was 6 years old in kindergarten, I think I'd take that.

I think I was always a drama queen. I really, really, really loved playing pretend.