Quotes About Imagination

dreams, but so could he. That didn't mean he knew the answer to everything.

I am not interested

Her mind flooded with an image of bounding after them to walk alongside Crowfeather, who was bringing up the rear; she drew in her breath sharply, almost able to feel his dark gray pelt brush against hers as they picked their way over the tufts of boggy grass.

I wanted to write in you.

Even now I'm not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I've gotten from books.

There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you." ? Beatrix Potter

There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.

Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were--Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

Tuesday, November 17th. 1896 ... I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child. What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense.

The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself. I was a child then, I had no idea what the world would be like. I wished to trust myself on the waters and the sea. Everything was romantic in my imagination. The woods were peopled by the mysterious good folk. The Lords and Ladies of the last century walked with me along the overgrown paths, and picked the old fashioned flowers among the box and rose hedges of the garden.

What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?

Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again.

Above all we have to go beyond words and images and concepts. No imaginative vision or conceptual framework is adequate to the great reality.

Every man carries within him a world, which is composed of all that he has seen and loved,

Technology is the art of the possible.

Molds are driven by fantasy and a desire for the spectacular, and our sense of spectacle changes over time. Medieval gingerbread molds, hand carved from wood, might depict harts and does, wild boars and saints. The stock of images available to us now is far larger; but our imaginations are often smaller. In kitchen shops today, you can buy a large cake mold resembling a giant cupcake.

Flavour is not actually in food, any more than redness is in a rose or yellow in the sun. It is a fabrication of our brains and for each taste we create a mental 'flavour image', in the same way that we develop a memory bank of the faces of people we know. The difference is that whereas faces fade when you haven't seen them in a while, flavours and smells have a way of lodging themselves in indelibly.

Human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers.

The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.

A practical, matter-of-fact man is like a wagon without springs: every single pebble on the road jolts him; but a man with imagination has springs that break the jar and jolt.

Every man carries a menagerie in himself; and, by stirring him up all around, you will find every sort of animal represented there.

Every thought and feeling is a painting stroke, in the darkness, of our likeness that is to be; and our whole life is but a chamber, which we are frescoing with colors that do not appear while being laid on wet, but which will shine forth afterwards, when finished and dry.

Faith means a sanctified imagination, or the imagination applied to spiritual things.