Quotes About Imagination

who could visualize four-dimensional surfaces in a non-Euclidean geometry

Karl wondered how many scientists read this science fiction stuff. Maybe they couldn't get good books out in New Mexico?

What interests me," she took up finally, and there was now no touch of her characteristic satire, "is a life in which I am engaged in discovering what interests me. Not just now, as a young woman, but when I am a wife, and when I have children, and beyond. A life of imagination, and experience, and engagement, and commitment to something beyond myself.

One must take care that one's life does not begin to resemble the plot of a novel.

Didier once told me, in a rambling, midnight dissertation, that a dream is the place where a wish and a fear meet. When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, he said, we call the dream a nightmare.

A dream is a place where a wish and a fear meet. When the wish and the fear are exactly the same we call the dream a nightmare.

I heard a warning, deep within - we usually do , when something worse than we can imagine is stalking us, and set to pounce. Fate's way of beating us in a fair fight is to give us warnings that we hear, but never heed.

A dream is the place where a wish and a fear meet. When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, we call the dream a nightmare.

a dream is the place where a wish and a fear meet. When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, he said, we call the dream a nightmare

that a dream is the place where a wish and a fear meet. When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, he said, we call the dream a nightmare.

It was the green that the sea would be, if the sea were perfect.

I asked, pushing a canoe of thought out into the uncharted water of his ideas.

Seeing him there, a man as alien to the place as I was, let me picture myself in that world. What had seemed unimaginably strange and remote from my experience suddenly became possible, and comprehensible, and, finally, fascinating.

a dream is the place where a wish and a fear meet.

Even in that, I discovered, human beings will find an art.

I tried to imagine what the vision of love she was clinging to might look like, and how different it was from my own.

Her eyes were the color of the sea if the sea were perfect.

I may not know how to fly but I know how to read, and that's almost the same thing.

Of course. You get everything from books.

There may be no city in the clouds, but dreaming of it can enliven the spirit.

She dreamed of leaving, but she had too little exposure to the world to imagine where to go.

And a puzzle is for the piecing together, especially for the young, who still believe it can be done.

Children played at those stories; they dreamed about them. They took them to heart and acted as if to live inside them.

Wishing is the beginning of imagination. They practice wishing when they are young things, and then -when they have grown - they have a developed imagination. Which can do some harm - greed, that kind of thing - but more often does them some good. They can imagine that things might be different. Might be other than they seem. Could be better.