Quotes About Imagination

Of course, any map of the Place would be shocking to anyone with any understanding of geography. As you can see, this is a map of no earthly geography." -

Something terrible had happened in his life to send him back to her looking for revenge. He believed she had been unlucky for him and was to be blamed for some calamity, some failure or loss. But he didn't want to tell her about it; he just wanted her to suffer and be reduced, in his imagination and her own. There was no point in understanding any of this if she couldn't see a way through it.

Roth pulled a second glove over the first and grabbed what looked like a video game remote.

There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever again.

As you enter positions of trust and power," Toni Morrison wrote, "dream a little before you think.

Show me your dreams. Let me make them come true.

What is dollar value but something to amuse people who have no imagination? People who have money and no imagination follow fashion. People who have imagination and no money fashion styles.

on the tiny counter. "Playing? If that's what you

I never could have thought of it, To have a little bug all lit And made to go on wings.

We have, all of us, invented things that others have beat us to: walking upright, a certain sort of sandwich involving avocado and an onion roll, a minty sweet cocktail, ourselves, romantic love, human life.

At that moment I felt so ruined by life that I couldn't imagine it ever getting worse, which just shows that my sense of humor was slightly more durable than my imagination.

My memories are not books. They are only stories that I have been over so many times in my head that I don't know from one day to the next what's remembered and what's made up.

I'm a princess and sometimes I'm a fairy, and I'm a mermaid too.' I thought she was marvellous. She knew her own worth, she insisted on it. She knew that no matter how miserable the circumstances in which life placed her, she was better than that. She knew that a part of her was special and remarkable, and she was able to articulate that in her own way.

Do you think wishful thinking is a psychiatric condition?

Was it arrogant to think a squirrel was following you around?

There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.

My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.

It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is.

I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting.

Intelligent men think up ways to get themselves in tangles a stupid man would never imagine.

A sly smirk curled at the corner of his mouth as he peered into the trunk. "Why do you have Robin Hood's toy chest?" - Brendan Daniels

when she was younger, hannah liked to feel sad, so long as it was artifical sad' that was what she called it when the sadness was about something that wasn't real

Think of the place you've most wanted to see. First see it in your mind's eye. Now feel it in your heart.

AS ALL FAIRY TALES DO, this story begins with the simplest of words: once upon a time….