Quotes About Imagination

When we can't dream any longer we die.

When we can't dream any longer we die.

I've always wanted to get into acting, ever since I was younger. I'd put on shows for my family and run around play dress-up all the time. I think I was 4 when I told them I wanted to do movies.

I've only been to high school on TV and in movies. I've never actually been to high school.

I think every little girl's dream is to be a mermaid or to see a mermaid. [When I was younger] I would go to the beach and cover myself in the sand. People from different cultures and centuries have the same idea of what mermaids are ... so that's maybe a cool thing to think about.

This morning, I went to wipe my hands on a tea towel, and while I was using it, it seemed like it felt a bit light. I unfolded it and realized my daughter had cut little bits out of it to make frocks for her dolls!

Le due fette più grosse del mio aerogramma mentale sono costituite dalle elucubrazioni legate al lavoro e dalle fantasie sessuali.

non bisogna togliere ai giovani la sete dell'irrealizzabile.

Vision gets the dreams started. Dreaming employs your God-given imagination to reinforce the vision. Both are part of something I believe is absolutely necessary to building the life of a champion, a winner, a person of high character who is consistently at the top of whatever game he or she is in.

Dreaming means 'rehearsing' what you see, playing it over and over in your mind until it becomes as real to you as your life right now.

I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.

Who wants to become a writer? And why? ... It's the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower of life, even if it's a cactus.

Far down the corridor a slim figure in white approaches, dwarfed by the smoky distance; her nun-like cap floating, her scarlet cape, the "cape of pride," slipped round her narrow shoulders. How intent and silent They are! I watched this one pass with a look half reverence, half envy. One should never aspire to know a Sister intimately. They are disappointing people; without candour, without imagination. Yet what a look of personality hangs about them....

I don't believe in things like that - fairies or brownies or magic or anything. It's old-fashioned.' 'Well, we must be jolly old-fashioned then,' said Bessie. 'Because we not only believe in the Faraway Tree and love our funny friends there, but we go to see them too - and we visit the lands at the top of the Tree as well!

The secret island had looked mysterious enough on the night they had seen it before - but now, swimming in the hot June haze, it seemed more enchanting than ever. As they drew near to it, and saw the willow trees that bent over the water-edge and heard the sharp call of moorhens that scuttled off, the children gazed in delight. Nothing but trees and birds and little wild animals. Oh, what a secret island, all for their very own, to live on and play on.

Vivevano il loro strano sogno e si raccontavano tutto e camminavano e parlavano e ridevano e camminavano e parlavano contro tutto il già visto come in un lungo sogno, quei matti. E poi, e poi.

Cada quien vive en el universo que es capaz de imaginar

la magia de la vida hace que lo que pensamos, a la larga se vaya haciendo realidad.

Siempre he soñado con besar a la mujer amada a la luz de la luna -prosigió él con la imbecilidad astronómica propia de tantos enamorados

La historia dice "así fue"; la novela propone "así pudo ser".

Necesito una pequeña buhardilla para dedicarme a escribir y soñar, no un coche impecable que me de prestigio y status entre los pendejos de clase media.

He has always admired writers who each day begin a journey towards the unknown and who nevertheless spend all their time sitting in a room".

No fim de contas, o que somos, o que é cada um de nós senão uma combinatória, diferente e única, de experiência, de leituras, de imaginações?" - Enrique Vila-Matas, Filhos sem Filhos

Pero pronto se pregunta por qué se estará esforzando en imaginar tanto si ya nadie, absolutamente nadie, le ve.