Quotes About Imagination

I could be eloquent were I not afraid you fellows had starved your imaginations to feed your bodies.

Cuando era un muchacho, me apasionaban los mapas. Podía pasar horas mirando Sudamérica, África o Australia inmerso en los placeres de la exploración. En aquella época quedaban muchos lugares desconocidos en la tierra, y cuando veía en un mapa alguno que pareciera particularmente atractivo (aunque todos lo parecen), ponía el dedo sobre él y decía: "Cuando sea mayor iré allí".

The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as the future.

Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.

From afar at the end of Tsar Peter Straat, issued in the frosty air the tinkle of bells of the horse tramcars, appearing and disappearing in the opening between the buildings, like little toy carriages harnessed with toy horses and played with by people that appeared no bigger than children.

Vivimos igual que soñamos: solos.

At such times his thoughts would be full of valorous deeds: he loved these dreams and the success of his imaginary achievements.

O youth! The strength of it, the faith of it, the imagination of it! To me she was not an old rattle-trap carting about the world a lot of coal for a freight--to me she was the endeavour, the test, the trial of life. I think of her with pleasure, with affection, with regret--as you would think of someone dead you have loved. I shall never forget her. . . . Pass the bottle.

Imagination, the enemy of men, the father of all terrors.

Joseph Conrad

He attended some lectures somewhere and imagines that the devil is no match for him.

The mind of man is capable of anything." ? Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness and the Congo Diary

We live as we dream - alone

It was with these feelings that I began the creation of a human being.

Hyde Park seemed a good place for high-IQ misfits, blessed with dazzling minds or imaginations but unequipped to take life straight on;

Reading is experience. A biography of any literary person ought to deal at length with what he read and when, for in some sense, we are what we read.

Vladimir Nabokov, contemning readers who identified with characters in fiction, remarked that the best readers identify with the artist.

When I grow up I want to be a little boy.

i know at last what i want to be when i grow up. when i grow up i want to be a little boy.

My fish dream is a sex dream.

They couldn't touch him because he was Tarzan, Mandrake, Flash Gordon. He was Bill Shakespeare. He was Cain, Ulysses, the Flying Dutchman; he was Lot in Sodom, Deirdre of the Sorrows, Sweeney in the nightingales among trees.

Over the ensuing decades and centuries, to be sure, the Bill of Rights has ascended to an elevated region in the American imagination. But in its own time, and in Madison's mind, it was only an essential epilogue that concluded a brilliant campaign to adjust the meaning of the American Revolution to a national scale.

Though we might wish otherwise, the history of what might have been is usually not really history at all, mixing together as it does the messy tangle of past experience with the clairvoyant certainty of our present preferences.

The feeling of health produces health; the feeling of wealth produces wealth. How do you feel? 6. Imagination is your most powerful faculty. Imagine what is lovely and of good report. You are what you imagine yourself to be. 7. You avoid conflict between your conscious and subconscious in the sleepy state. Imagine the fulfillment of your desire over and over again prior to sleep. Sleep in peace and wake in joy.