Quotes About Imagination

Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.

I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive.

You can dream, create, design and build the most wonderful place in the world, but it requires people to make the dream a reality.

Yowpee! I pulls my brandin' irons an' comes out a-bitin' the dust—a reg'lar Hoopalong Cassowary!

There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.

Come Muse migrate from Greece and Ionia,Cross out please those immensely overpaid accounts,That matter of Troy and Achilles' wrath, and Aeneas', Odysseus' wanderings,Placard "Removed" and "To Let" on the rocks of your snowy Parnassus.

As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances.

To have great poets, there must be great audiences, too.

Books are not men—

By living, thinking, even dreaming the story in one continuous process, ideas came faster and faster. Sometimes the typewriter keys would fly so fast that I wondered if my fingers could keep up with them. And at the finish of the story I often had to take a few days off as my fingertips were too sore to begin work on the next book.

A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.

Writing is a form attention and trains the writer's attention to find images and stories.

Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.

Fiction is an Art, and, like all other Arts, that it is governed by certain laws, methods, and rules, which it is their first business to learn.

To participate in the Eucharist is to live inside God's imagination. It is to be caught up into what is really real, the body of Christ.

Breaking the silence" is always counterdiscourse that tends to arise from the margins of society, a counter to present power arrangements and to dominant modes of social imagination.

Cynicism always comes clothed in "realism". The alternatives to begin with an act of imagination. Can we imagine another way?

It is the work of the poet to imagine YHWH out beyond old stereotypes and to show us that the God of Israel, at the very moment of risk, is a God of healing, transformative, covenantal fidelity.

do not think for one moment that there is any ready transfer from this narrative to our real-life crisis with the virus. The Bible does not often easily "apply." The Bible does, however, invite an open imagination that hopes for the best outcomes of serious scientific research. At the same time, it affirms that deeply inscrutable holy reality is in, with, under, and

The point that prophetic imagination must ponder is that there is no freedom of God without the politics of justice and compassion, and there is no politics of justice and compassion without a religion of the freedom of God.

and the birth of Jesus, two things become clear. First, in the witness to Jesus by the early Christians in the New Testament, they relied heavily on Old Testament "anticipations" of the coming Messiah. But second, Jesus did not fit those "anticipations" very well, such that a good deal of interpretive imagination was required in order to negotiate the connection between the anticipation and the actual bodily, historical reality of Jesus.

First, in the witness to Jesus by the early Christians in the New Testament, they relied heavily on Old Testament "anticipations" of the coming Messiah. But second, Jesus did not fit those "anticipations" very well, such that a good deal of interpretive imagination was required in order to negotiate the connection between the anticipation and the actual bodily, historical reality of Jesus.