Quotes About Imagination

For the expressions to proliferate so easily, speakers and hearers must be dissecting the implied metaphor to lay bare the connexions between the things named by the metaphor and the abstract concepts they are really talking about. (In literary theory these are sometimes called the 'vehicle' and the 'tenor' of the metaphor; cognitive scientists call them the 'source' and the 'target'.)

the mind is a metaphor-monger

You need a mind open to possibility, conditioned to love the creative spirit we all have inside ourselves.

I love the Potter films. I found them the most wonderful sort of escapism every year or two.

it's like a squid in love with the sky.

Yes, I'd love to have a garden of my own--spacious, and full of everything that is fragrant and flowering. But if I don't succeed, never mind--I've still got the dream.

Your fantasies are unlikely. But beautiful.

I still believe in Santa, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy and true love. Don't even try to tell me different.

People love fashion exhibits because they can fantasize. They can respond to a dress even if they can never wear a dress like that.

We invent what we love and what we fear.

Writing is a cop-out. An excuse to live perpetually in fantasy land, where you can create, direct and watch the products of your own head. Very selfish.

I love being an author. I love actual writing, and I love communicating with children. And it keeps me young.

I love the love of those who are far enough away, it becomes whatever I wish to believe it.

People love to be swept off their feet, to go into an environment where they've never been, to experience things they only dream about. And filmmaking offers that potential.

I wonder love can have already set In dreams, when we've not met More times than I can number on one hand.

There's nothing quite as good as folding up into a book and shutting the world outside.If I pick the right one I can be beautiful, or fall in love, or live happily ever after. Maybe even all three.

I feel like falling in love with the first woman I meet, putting her in a wheel-barrow and wheeling her down the street.

One of the things I love about cinema is the range.

In a way, art is a great way to release your love, fantasy, and desires. It's like a fetish. It's a comfortable way of excising a lot of your conscience.

I will always love the false image I had of you.

People still love a good story, and I don't think that will change.

Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness and love.

I love the life of objects. When the children go to bed, the objects come to life. I like to tell stories about the life of inanimate objects.

I love the joy in the improvisational creative process.