Quotes About Imagination

For me, the best thing about Cyberpunk is that it taught me how to enjoy shopping malls, which used to terrify me. Now I just imagine the whole thing is two miles below the moon's surface, and that half the people's right-brains have been eaten by roboticized steel rats. And suddenly it's interesting again.

Long live transfinite mountains, the hollow earth, time machines, fractal writing, aliens, dada, telepathy, flying saucers, warped space, teleportation, artificial reality, robots, pod people, hylozoism, endless shrinking, intelligent goo, antigravity, surrealism, software highs, two-dimensional time, gnarly computation, the art of photo composition, pleasure zappers, nanomachines, mind viruses, hyperspace, monsters from the deep and, of course, always and forever, the attack of the giant ants!

I do as much comedy as I possibly can, but I'm basically limited by the imagination of the secretaries who make the decisions.

Every piece of writing... starts from what I call a grit... a sight or sound, a sentence or a happening that does not pass away... but quite inexplicably lodges in the mind.

Sometimes,' she said, remembering that morning, 'I write poems that are taller than I am

Inside you there's an artist you don't know about… say yes quickly, if you know, if you've known it from before the beginning of the universe.

When you become the image of your own imagination, it's the most powerful thing you could ever do.

Life is about using the whole box of crayons.

I've been a daydreamer since day one. I much prefer looking out a window over looking at my phone.

I'd like to have the flying car, I think that'd be really cool.

Strategic thinking requires the ability to contemplate possibilities that are not immediately present.

Her smiles were blurred, as if seen from a moving train. Her eyes always creased at the edges by dreams of leaving.

Life is just a candle, and a dream must give it flame.

I knew I was free; that I had always been free; held back only by my own weakness, lacking impulse and the imagination to break away from an existence that had become habitual for years.

It's fine to dream, provided we can deal with the reality when we wake up

To the inhabitants of the pond, the pond was the world; and to the inhabitants of the world, the world was but a muddy pond.

No life is more, or less, important or interesting than another—much of it, after all, is lived inside our heads.

The world is only the size of each man's head.

After all, most of living has to happen in the mind.

In times of crisis, it's wonderful what the imagination will do.

We don't have to circle the world in order to find beauty and fulfilment. After all, most of living has to happen in the mind. And, to quote one anonymous sage from my trivet, "The world is only the size of each man's head.

As a boy, reading was my religion. It helped me to discover my soul. Later, writing helped me to record its journey.

Great Stories for Children

Pari Tibba.' I was charmed by the name—Fairy Hill.