Quotes About Imagination

The big difference between a friend and an inventor is that an inventor works.

It is too easy to say 'what if' and paint a picture of a perfect world.

Too much conscious mind mucks up the artist's natural creativity.

If a person cannot imagine a future, then we would say that that person is depressed. But fi a country cannot envision a future, how do we describe its condition?

Using fantasy as metaphor, wryness rather than bluntness, never escaping a certain gentility in approach

Genius has its limitations. Insanity, not so much.

George and Harold were usually responsible kids. Whenever anything bad happened, George and Harold were usually responsible.

It's YOUR story, kid. You can color it any way you want.

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Only one thing can help us now," said George. "What?" asked Harold. "Rubber doggy doo-doo," said George.

And by this experience his knowledge was reduced to diffidence, so that when asked how sounds were created he used to answer tolerantly that although he knew a few ways, he was sure that many more existed which were not only unknown but unimaginable.

I have an imagination because my life is so boring that my imagination lets me get off the reality of what's going on.

Reading... a vacation for the mind....

Before men ever wrote in clay they cast their words in verse and line, rhythmbound in poets' minds, defying time and age.

I'm always hoping for the nights that are inspired where you almost have an out of body experience.

if you can rid your life of realities by night and keep your days as one long dream always, then you will indeed be blessed of the Gods. Gath

I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl's 'James and the Giant Peach'.

I like the dark part of the night, after midnight and before four-thirty, when it's hollow, when ceilings are harder and farther away. Then I can breathe, and can think while others are sleeping, in a way can stop time, can have it so – this has always been my dream – so that while everyone else is frozen, I can work busily about them, doing whatever it is that needs to be done, like the elves who make the shoes while children sleep.

We are the bright new stars born of a screaming black hole, the nascent suns burst from the darkness, from the grasping void of space that folds and swallows--a darkness that would devour anyone not as strong as we. We are oddities, sideshows, talk show subjects. We capture everyone's imagination.

Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. We're not the brain, we are a cancer on nature.

Take what you can from your dreams, make them as real as anything.

take what you can from your dreams Make them real as anything It takes the work out of the courage

You and I, we're not tied to the groundNot falling but rising like rolling around Eyes closed above the rooftops Eyes closed, we're gonna spin through the stars

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