Quotes About Imagination

All her life she had wanted to squeeze the toothpaste really squeeze it,not just one little squirt...The paste coiled and swirled and mounded in the washbasin. Ramona decorated the mound with toothpaste roses as if it was a toothpaste birthday cake

One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since.

Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.

Ramona stepped back into her closet, slid the door shut, pressed an imaginary button, and when her imaginary elevator had made its imaginary descent, stepped out onto the real first floor and raced a real problem. Her mother and father were leaving for Parents' Night.

All four of them looked at Diane as if she had said Kendel had just returned from her trip and had brought them a unicorn skeleton.

I don't think we should have a dinosaur that poops kids.

Pirate thoughts.

Livy says when her mama and papa are happy she hears them jumping on the bed at night. Are you going to jump on the bed?

I held the letter—a window to another world. Did I dare open it?

Books are like friends to me. Words come alive on the page.

The material's out there, a calm lake waiting for us to dive in.

As a bookish child in Calcutta, I used to thrill to the adventures of bad girls whose pursuit of happiness swept them outside the bounds of social decency. Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Emma Bovary and Anna Karenina lived large in my imagination. The naughty girls of Hollywood films flirted and knew how to drive.

Watch me re-position the stars.

Art and poetry are humbling in their power to make us bigger people. (From JFK: The Last Speech book)

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

It's amazing where the paranoid mind can take you.

I breathed the air of deliverance through books, and through books I leapt over the walls of confinement..

Or, as I call it, a Cheesel, it's a Weasel with a Cheese finish.

Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'

Bill Brittain

When the poet Paul Valery once asked Albert Einstein if he kept a notebook to record his ideas, Einstein looked at him with mild but genuine surprise. "Oh, that's not necessary," he replied . "It's so seldom I have one.

Even though Raster Blaster was only a video game, I was learning about designing stuff. I got good at drawing.

Artificial Intelligence: the art of making computers that behave like the ones in movies

I think it would be fun to write about movies again.