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Quotes About Imagination

Im obsessed with the moon and space travel, so if I could incorporate that, Id love to go to space.
~ Sam Heughan
You can travel through literature, and you can expand your mind through literature. It's so cheap to buy that kind of ticket.
~ Saul Williams
We wandered in a frenzy and a dream (301).
~ Jack Kerouac, On the Road
Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.
~ Isabelle Eberhardt
Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen.
~ John Keats
James's expedition to Scotland is wholly imaginary, though there appears to have been space for it during Henry's progress to the North to pay his devotions at Beverley Minster.
~ Charlotte Mary Yonge
I think space will be conquered through the mind rather than the clumsy medium of space travel.
~ Patrick Troughton
Direct your eye inward, and you'll find / A thousand regions in your mind / Yet undiscovered. Travel them, and be / Expert in home-cosmography
~ Henry David Thoreau
I do a so-called trip into myself: I sit down at the piano and the melody might start to evolve from my playing or then I might start to sing it.
~ Enya
If you want to build a boat, do not instruct the men to saw wood, stitch the sails, prepare the tools and organize the work, but make them long for setting sail and travel to distant lands.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
To travel is very useful, it makes the imagination work, the rest is just delusion and pain. Our journey is entirely imaginary, which is its strength.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
I don't write about things that I have the answers to or things that are very close to home. It just wouldn't be any adventure. It wouldn't have any vitality.
~ Ann Beattie
The two things that constantly inspired me were books and travel.
~ Patti Smith
When we read we are able to travel to many places, meet many people and understand the world.
~ Nelson Mandela
It is good to renew one's wonder, said the philosopher. Space travel has again made children of us all.
~ Ray Bradbury
So far as my experience goes, travelers generally exaggerate the difficulties of the way. Like most evil, the difficulty is imaginary; for what's the hurry?
~ Henry David Thoreau
I believe the adventure game genre will never die any more than any type of storytelling would ever die.
~ Roberta Williams
When I travel, I draw and paint sketches which is great fun. And as long as you are fully aware that it has nothing to do with actual art, I think that's all right.
~ Arne Jacobsen
Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
It seemed like all the way to tomorrow and over it to the days beyond.
~ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
A mathematician makes plans to travel backwards in time through a wormhole to a parallel universe when he can't even make it to Mars with the fastest rocket on hand today.
~ Bill Gaede
I don't own a camera, so I travel with a police sketch artist.
~ George Carlin
Even while the Earth sleeps we travel.
~ Khalil Gibran