Quotes About Imagination

Le idee sono come le tette, se non sono abbastanza grandi si possono gonfiare.

Lei vaga in una grande stanza con una porta in fondo, l'uscita dalla sua solitudine. Qualche volta vede la porta ma fa finta di niente, continua a vagare e lamentarsi a dire a se steso, starò sempre solo. Io invece vago in una stanza senza porte. Posso tutt'al più sognare una porta.

Perché le idee (sventagliata) sono come le tette; se non sono abbastanza grandi si possono sempre gonfiare (risate).

E penso a te che mi hai ascoltato. E mi hai reso diverso, nei mille pezzi di specchio, perchè sarò diverso ogni volta che mi rileggerai, e diverso per ognuno che mi leggerò, svogliato o rapito.

Acting is in everything but the words.

Don't use your conscious past. Use your creative imagination to create a past that belongs to your character. I don't want you to be stuck with your own life. It's too little.

The imagination is closer to the actor than real life-more agreeable, more comfortable.

Acting can be the healthiest profession in the world, because it allows you to do things you can't do in real life. It allows you to understand more than just what life provides you.

When in doubt, give a character big, blown-up eyes and puffy lips.

I'd like to extend a special thank you to my favorite sins: fairy tales and chick flicks.

Another life could have happened to us. I know you know that. But here we are, still a flame held close to untouched lips. And I'll write a dozen different endings before I'm done.

I cannot be assured of exactly what I created be it madness and monster or beauty and light.

pages of books--he steps inside magical stories, inviting readers to come along for the ride. Witty verse and verse and fantastical

The Alice books belong to a branch of literature that speaks deeply and clearly to the human psyche--stories of the journey.

We perceive the world in a particular way and confidently expect it to conform to its appearance. But we fail to recognize that certain aspects of the 'reality' that appear to us are nothing but figments of our own imagination. In this confusion a conflict ensues between the world as it is and the world as we believe it to be. And the more we insist on our infallibility, the more frustrated we become as the actual world again and again stubbornly refuses to live up to our expectations.

By emphasizing doubt rather than belief, perplexity rather than certainty, and questions rather than answers, Zen practice granted me the freedom to imagine.

Solitude is good for great minds but bad for small ones. It troubles brains that it does not illuminate." Yet Hugo was unable to go as far as his older English contemporary William Wordsworth, for whom solitude was a "bliss" that filled the heart with joy. Largely avoiding its extremes of hell and bliss, here I will explore the middle ground of solitude, which I consider a site of autonomy, wonder, contemplation, imagination, inspiration, and care.

I like to think of dharma practice today as venturing into a world of imagination, one in which each individual seeks to articulate a vision in terms of the particular needs of his or her own situatio? Buddhism would then become less and less the preserve of an institution, and more and more an experience that is owned by ordinary people in ordinary communities.

Stephen Baxter

Every world needed an artist.

This is a strange situation, sir. Perhaps imagination is what we need.

if something is so far beyond your imagination, it's hard even to fear it.

Stephen Baxter

Stephen Baxter