Quotes About Imagination

Siempre imaginé que el Paraíso sería algún tipo de biblioteca.

A man sets out to draw the world. As the years go by, he peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, instruments, stars, horses, and individuals. A short time before he dies, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the lineaments of his own face.

De hát én írom ezt a történetet, s úgy írom, ahogy kedvem tartja.

Se puede hacer dinero de la nada?

escribo porque me gusta vivir las vidas vicarias que se multiplican en mis tramas y porque, aun reconociendo la vacuidad de la empresa, finjo así que el mundo importa

The future without days. Without days of it? in it? I try to—just for a second—feel that shape.

Daydream is the only good thing in life. Everything else is vulgar and empty.

Movement, after all, seemed futile to him. He felt that imagination could easily be substituted for the vulgar realities of things. It was possible, in his opinion, to gratify the most extravagant, absurd desires by a subtle subterfuge, by a slight modification of the object of one's wishes.

The pleasure of travel - existing as it largely does only in recollection and almost never in the present, at the actual moment when it is taking place- Besides, he considered travel to be pointless, believing that the imagination could easily compensate for the vulgar reality of actual experience.

It's foolish to let my thoughts wander this way," he said, drawing himself up, "but daydream is the only good thing in life. Everything else is vulgar and empty.

Chez les uns, c'est un retour aux âge consommés, aux civilisations disparues, aux temps morts ; Chez les autres, c'est un élancement vers le fantastique et vers le rêve, c'est une vision plus ou moins intense d'un temps à éclore dont l'image reproduit, sans qu'il le sache, par un effet d'atavisme, celle des époques révolues.

More often than not, all that would be needed to complete the cure would be for the sick man to show a little imagination.

Movement, after all, seemed futile to him. He felt that imagination could easily be substituted for the vulgar realities of things.

Le démon ne peut rien sur la volonté, très peu sur l'intelligence et tout sur l'imagination.

Mme. Chantelouve would never realize the ideal he had fashioned for himself, the tantalizing features, the agile, wild animal body, the melancholy and ardent bearing, which he had dreamed. Indeed, the mere fact of knowing the unknown rendered her less desirable, more vulgar. Accessibility killed the chimera.

No hay calidad sin entrenamiento. Un escritor solo puede innovar si tiene hábitos lingüísticos poderosos y fértiles. Inventemos desde lo que sabemos. José Antonio Marina

Ho letto questi libri e posso raccontarti cosa dicono. Dicono: "L'impossibile non esiste.

In una notte di orrore, gli uomini hanno inventato l'arte.

Supuso, entonces, que ya había muerto, y que iba subiendo entre tanta y tanta estrella, subiendo muy suavemente camino directo del cielo. Después cerró los ojos. Estaba tan agotada que no se dio cuenta de que sólo en ese instante moría, y no antes, cuando creyó ver a todas las constelaciones rodeándola.

Ä°nsanlar olmayacak masallar anlat?p çocuklar?n her ÅŸeye inanaca??n? zannediyorlar.

Büyükler birtak?m masallar anlat?yorlar ve çocuklar?n her anlatt?klar?na inand?klar?n? düÅŸünüyorlar.

Más de una vez me he entretenido imaginando qué habría acontecido si, en lugar de hombres de Castilla, hubieran sido encargados, mil años hace, los "unitarios" de ahora, catalanes y vascos, de formar esta enorme cosa que llamamos España. Yo sospecho que, aplicando sus métodos y dando con sus testas en el yunque, lejos de arribar a la España una, habrían dejado la Península convertida en una pululación de mil cantones.

Nine-tenths of that which is attributed to sexuality is the work of our magnificent ability to imagine, which is no longer an instinct, but exactly the opposite: a creation.

every hypothesis is a construction, and because of this it is an authentic theory. In so far as they merit that exigent name, ideas are never a mere reception of presumed realities, but they are constructions of possibilities; therefore they are pure bits of imagination, or fine ideas of our own...