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Quotes About Imagination

The key to getting out of a bad relationship is being able to imagine something more fulfilling. --D. Travers Scott
~ Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
It looks like something out of Whittier's Snowbound,' Julia said. Julia could always think of things like that to say.
~ Maud Hart Lovelace
This was Betsy and Tacy's private corner. Betsy's mother was a great believer in people having private corners, and the piano box was plainly meant to belong to Betsy and Tacy, for it fitted them so snugly.
~ Maud Hart Lovelace
Sometimes the west showed clouds like tiny pink feathers; sometimes it showed purple mountains and green lakes; sometimes the clouds were scarlet with gold around the edges. Betsy
~ Maud Hart Lovelace
But perhaps people who liked to write aways made lists! Just for the fun of it.
~ Maud Hart Lovelace
Betsy dreamed about going away from Deep Valley, but she didn't for a moment suspect that around a bend in her Winding Hall of Fate a journey was actually waiting.
~ Maud Hart Lovelace
The five-year-olds were the most important members of the large doll families. Everything pleasant happened to them. They had all the adventures.
~ Maud Hart Lovelace
Oh ! étrangeté des rêves éveillés où l'esprit s'envole dans un monde irréel et possible ! Rien n'y étonne ; rien n'y choque ; et la fantaisie débridée ne distingue plus le comique et le lúgubre.
~ Maupassant Guy De
Put black on white.
~ Maupassant(de)/Guy
Reading, my earliest refuge in the unknown world, made me want to venture into it.
~ Maureen Corrigan
Constant reading pulled me away from the world of my childhood, the world of my parents.
~ Maureen Corrigan
Prolonged travel in the alternate world of books can also make a reader more prone to fantasy thinking and estranged from his or her real life.
~ Maureen Corrigan
The child who gets lost in a book can emerge from the experience a changeling.
~ Maureen Corrigan
This pool is a triumph of imagination. That's how you win at life, Gin. You have to imagine your way through. Never say something can't be done. There's always a solution, even if it's weird.
~ Maureen Johnson
Sherlock said, "I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.
~ Maureen Johnson
I sleep better knowing that a naked cork-eater is not sneaking around at night, stealing my underwear.
~ Maureen Johnson
I envisioned huge piles of the Elf Hotel flying off the belt, taking down everybody in sight. I had seen pictures of that Elf Hotel - it had sharp candy-cane spires that could easily impale someone. If anyone was ever going to be killed by an Elf Hotel, it would be my parents.
~ Maureen Johnson
I always wanted stories to be real, so I started writing my own.
~ Maureen Johnson
QUESTION EVERYTHING; STAND BACK, I'M GOING TO TRY SCIENCE!; I REJECT YOUR REALITY AND SUBSTITUTE MY OWN.
~ Maureen Johnson
I could pretend, at least, and if I pretended long enough, maybe I could make it into a reality.
~ Maureen Johnson
People always say they can't do things, that they're impossible. They just haven't been creative enough.
~ Maureen Johnson
You have to imagine your way through. Never say something can't be done, even if it's weird.
~ Maureen Johnson
She's like the Hulk," Nate explained. "But instead of transforming when she gets mad, it's when she sees crafts. And she doesn't turn big and green. She just makes crafts. So not like the Hulk, really.
~ Maureen Johnson
Where does this arrogant fantasy come from?
~ Maureen Johnson