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Quotes About Imagination

Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.
~ Shel Silverstein
My skin is kind of sort of brownish Pinkish yellowish white. My eyes are greyish blueish green, But I'm told they look orange in the night. My hair is reddish blondish brown, But it's silver when it's wet. And all the colors I am inside Have not been invented yet.
~ Shel Silverstein
I'll take the dream I had last night, And put it in my freezer, So someday long and far away, When I'm an old grey greezer, I'll take it out and thaw it out, This lovely dream I've frozen, And boil it up and sit me down And dip my old cold toes in.
~ Shel Silverstein
My skin is kind of sort of brownish pinkish yellowish white. My eyes are greyish blueish green, but I'm told they look orange in the night. My hair is reddish blondish brown, but its silver when its wet, and all the colors I am inside have not been invented yet.
~ Shel Silverstein
Draw a crazy picture,Write a nutty poem,Sing a mumble-gumble song,Whistle through your comb.Do a loony-goony dance'Cross the kitchen floor,Put something silly in the worldThat ain't been there before.
~ Shel Silverstein
I dreamt about you last night. Fell out of bed twice
~ Shelagh Delaney
JO watches her go, leaning against the doorpost. Then she looks round the room, smiling a little to herself -- she remembers GEOF.] JO: As I was going up Pippin Hill, Pippin Hill was dirty. And there I met a pretty miss, And she dropped me a curtsy. Little miss, pretty miss, Blessings light upon you. If I had half a crown a day, I'd gladly spend it on you. Curtain.
~ Shelagh Delaney
Los cuentos de hadas poseen muchas cualidades atractivas, pero dar lecciones no es una de ellas.
~ Sheldon Cashdan
The books of course had shaped his mind in a hundred ways, especially perhaps the poetry. He thought of the master at his school who had awakened him to the glory of Shakespeare, and his own discovery of Shelley. So many of the books, the best-loved ones, had been about England, and of course the poems were England itself. As a child England had seemed much nearer than New York or the cowboy west.
~ Sheldon Vanauken
If you want to maintain your motivation over the long term, visualize what you want in front of yourself, i.e. I see a video of me fitting into my favorite skinny jeans, and feel the attraction of that image, drawing you towards it.
~ Shelle Rose Charvet
According to a study quoted in the New York Times, the parents of ordinarily creative children had an average of 6 rules, while the parents of highly creative children only had one.[32] Fewer rules, telling your kids what to do and how to do it produces more creative kids. But they are probably harder to manage!
~ Shelle Rose Charvet
A dream has power to poison sleep
~ Shelley
It is a terrible thing when it is the substitute that is sent to find a new life, a sign that a person yearns for change but cannot imagine creating it herself.... If scapegoats feel pain, it is only the delegated pain of their originals.
~ Shelley Jackson
I absolutely could create a lightsaber." "You could not create a lightsaber." "I could too. It's all a science." "I thought being a Jedi was mystical?" Irene snorted. "Mystical, my butt. It's all about science.
~ Shelly Laurenston
I thought it was bad when they made me wear this Jane Austen–suitor outfit, complete with cravat. But you! You look like you just escaped the set of Braveheart.
~ Shelly Laurenston
I was not happy as a child, although from time to time I was content. I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.
~ Neil Gaiman
Ray Bradbury was not ahead of his time. He was perfectly of his time, and more than that: he created his time and left his mark on the time that followed.
~ Neil Gaiman
We tell stories. We tell stories to pass the time, to leave the world for a while, or go more deeply into it. We tell stories to heal the pain of living.
~ Niall Williams
Working on the plot/story idea for my next novel ... It always takes time.
~ Nicholas Sparks
They give us access to another world, they give us access to dreams. It's our way of living in a different realm for a short period of time - and how beautiful is that?
~ Nicole Kidman
Every village has its simpleton, and if one does not exist they invent one to pass the time.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
I read all the time. Sometimes I get asked if I've thought about writing a novel.
~ Noah Baumbach
I always wanted to tell stories. From the time I had 20 cents or a quarter in my pocket, I could peddle my old Rambler 500 down to the corner store and buy comic books.
~ Patrick Lussier
He taught only one class: 'Unlikely Maths'. But since the time was listed as "now" and the place, "everywhere," this was hardly helpful in tracking him down.
~ Patrick Rothfuss