Quotes About Imagination

As the imagination is set to look into the invisible and immaterial, it seems to attract something of their vitality; and though it can give nothing to the body to redeem it from years, it can give to the soul that freshness of youth in old age which is even more beautiful than youth in the young.

Hope is sweet-minded and sweet-eyed. It draws pictures; it weaves fancies; it fills the future with delight.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his pictures.

In one of Chekhov's short stories, a little boy is drawing a picture. His father asks him why the man in the picture is taller than the house. "If he were smaller," says the child reasonably, "you couldn't see his eyes." ENTRY:

I have never met a vampire personally, but I don't know what might happen tomorrow.

We seem to have an insatiable thirst for places that don't exist, for griffins and wondrous dragons prowling the antipodes of a world we hardly recognize. They symbolize states of growth we haven't yet achieved.

Embrasser c'est inventer. À deux.

Night is an abyss at the edge of a footstep, raining anvils in a mercury-retrograde imagination needing chemicals. Fog is a curtain of anticipation. When lifted our way is lit by stars on a high dose of infinity.

He turned to face me. "Not all of us can be talkers like you. Besides, I'm better with my hands." I dropped my eyes. Damn my overactive imagination.

I'm such a girl for the living room. I really like to stay in my nest and not move. I travel in my mind, and that that's a rigorous state of journeying for me. My body isn't that interested in moving from place to place.

The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it's to imagine what is possible.

Movies are a couple of hours, while books transport you for days or weeks. You can live in the pages of a book.

When she was reading she wasn't the quiet Sullivan twin, she wasn't the one no one ever noticed. She became a princess in a castle. Or a clown juggling under the circus big top. She explored jungles on elephants' backs and took trips to Mars on spaceships. Reading took her anywhere she wanted to go. And Sophie found that she wanted to go absolutely everywhere.

he could read Mia's mind.   Ian and Tatiana sitting in a tree K-I-S-S-I-N-G   When they were children, everything could be boiled down to such simple sentiments.

I've always liked books," she said softly. "I love being around them. I love getting loaf in a story, a world. I love that I can become anyone, that I can become anyone, that I can live any fantasy.

You're every single fantasy I've ever had.

Some people use their imagination

Oh, blessed quality of books, that makes them a refuge from living! For in a book everything can be made to fit in, all tedium can be skipped over, and the intense moments can be made timeless and eternal.

We are funny creatures. We don't see the stars as they are, so why do we love them? They are not small gold objects, but endless fire.

In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold.

Dedication This book is dedicated to Sir Terry Pratchett OBE who has stood like a wossname upon the rocky shores of our imaginations – the better to guide us safely into harbour.

My dad was a fairy," said Zach. "And by that I don't mean he dressed well and enjoyed musical theatre.

Fuck me,' I said to Toby. 'We're living in Isengard.

This is your brain on magic.