Quotes About Imagination

A Thousand Dreams gently burn inside me.

An ocean traveler has even more vividly the impression that the ocean is made of waves than that it is made of water.

So the problem is not so much to see what nobody has yet seen, as to think what nobody has yet thought concerning that which everybody sees.

GROSSET & DUNLAP Publishers New York

Arthur Slade

One can never have too many books. Or read too many books.

Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.'

The Romantic poets were the prototype ramblers, and I've often found myself following in their footsteps - although perhaps not all of their footsteps since a typical walk for Samuel T. Coleridge might last two days and cover 145km.

Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended.

Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine - it is stranger than we can imagine.

A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.

Even in Christendom the average churchgoer is fully satisfied if he learns by rote a few of the elementary principles of religion. By so doing he comforts himself that he is not an infidel, and since he believes there is a God (though it may be one which his own imagination has devised) he prides himself that he is far from being an atheist. Yet as to having any living, spiritual, influential and practical knowledge of the Lord and His ways he is a stranger, altogether unenlightened.

A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination.

No fear is unbearable, she concluded, unless you've got time on your hands and a healthy imagination.

Había aprendido que lo malo no era la espera, sino las cosas que imaginas mientras esperas".

I ask myself how other people see me, and I hope they see me from way far away.

Os livros são portas que te levam para a rua (...). Com eles aprendes, educas-te, viajas, sonhas, imaginas, vives outras vidas e multiplicas a tua por mil. Quem te oferece mais por menos (...)? E também servem para manter à distância muitas coisas negativas (...) Às vezes interrogo-me como conseguem superar as coisas, aquelas [pessoas] que não lêem.

Books are doors that lead out into the street," Patricia would tell her. "You learn from them, educate yourself, travel, dream, imagine, live other lives, multiply your own life a thousand times. Where can you get more for your money, Mexicanita? And they also keep all sorts of bad things at bay: ghosts, loneliness, shit like that.

E agora tinha a certeza de uma coisa vislumbrada ao princípio (...) que não há dois livros iguais porque nunca houve dois leitores iguais. E que cada livro lido é, como cada ser humano, um livro singular, uma história única e um mundo à parte.

Cambia mucho las cosas, en tal sentido, recorrer la Mancha con el Quijote en las manos, visitar Palermo habiendo leído El Gatopardo, pasear por Buenos Aires con Borges o Bioy Casares en el recuerdo, o caminar por Hisarlik sabiendo que allí hubo una ciudad llamada Troya, y que los zapatos del viajero llevan el mismo polvo por el que Aquiles arrastró el cadáver de Héctor atado a su carro.

A reader is the total of all he's read, in addition to all the films and television he's seen.

hay un ejercicio fascinante, a medio camino entre la literatura y la vida: visitar lugares leídos en libros

one is never alone with a book nearby

Qué italiano es eso, ¿no le parece?… Hacer cosas que otros nunca harían porque son incapaces de imaginarlas.