Quotes About Imagination

Whoever'd think, Mr. Wong, they could put nine hours and maybe ten of good, good darkness into such a tiny time-capsule, a gelatin spaceship bound for the stars.

Of course not," Fay denied with a bright incredulous laugh. "Who'd want to loaf around in an imaginary world and take a chance of missing out on what his tickler's doing?—I mean, on what his tickler has in store for him—what he's told his tickler to have in store for him.

Modern toys entertain them with a bag of tricks that leave the young 'uns no room for imagination. They couldn't possibly think up, on their own, all the screwy things these new toys do.

Lord, what romantical fools men were, to overpass the known and good in order to strain and stretch after the mysterious merely unknown. Were dreams simply better than reality? Had fancy always more style?

The basis of all disappointment is the disproportion between what we imagine or wish for to make us happy and what we actually possess.

Creating fantasy is real work, important work. It's a hard, cold world we live in, and sometimes we need to escape. Sometimes we need that more than food or water or a roof over our heads.

She had never imagined that curiosity was one of the many masks of love .

She had never imagined that curiosty was one of the many masks of love .

Gaston was not only a fierce lover, with endless wisdom and imagination, but he was also, perhaps, the first man in the history of the species who had made an emergency landing and had come close to killing himself and his sweetheart simply to make love in a field of violets.

My most important problem was destroying the lines of demarcation that separate what seems real from what seems fantastic.

Then the writing became so fluid that I sometimes felt as if I were writing for the sheer pleasure of telling a story, which may be the human condition that most resembles levitation.

The children would remember for the rest of their lives the august solemnity with which their father, devastated by his prolonged vigil and by the wraith of his imagination, revealed his discovery to them: 'The world is round, like an orange.

Where one did not suffer with day to day problems because they were solved before hand in ones imagination.

My most important problem was to destroy the line of demarcation that separates what seems real from what seems fantastic. Because in the world that I was trying to evoke, that barrier didn't exist.

Así resulta que la irrealidad tiene poder sobre la realidad.

Tant de choses qu'on imagine quand on est tout seul, et de la tempête dehors!

Je lisais … comme toujours lorsqu'on est emporté par la magie d'une histoire bien racontée ou la simple ivresse de se reconnaître à travers des mots plus habiles que les siens.

To pretend I was sliding down the stair rail. He laughed again. You should have done it. I would have caught you at the bottom.

I decided to draw her doing something, because she always was.

I write fiction for lots of reasons. One is power. I'm in charge when I write. So are you. You create the world of the story. You make the rules.

byjadh heemyeh odh ubaech achoedzaY Foolishness may have golden offspring. I hope yours does.

What would I hold on to up there? His great ears? What if I fell and pulled an ear off with me, or grabbed his silver pendant and swung from his neck like a bell clapper? "No, thank you.

My grandmother warned that too much reading would ruin my eyesight, but I couldn't hear her over the chatter of characters.

like Heidi, Little Women, and Anne of Green Gables.