Quotes About Imagination

Josh was the only person Ryan had ever told about the way this picture had frightened him. It had shown him that if you looked at things from a new angle they could suddenly become unfamiliar and scary. It became important to see things in as many different ways as possible, so they couldn't catch you by surprise.

The twin grapes looked into the smoked glass and saw a mind full of nothing they could understand.

Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world," he said wisely one day, "but people don't know what it is like or how to make it. Perhaps the beginning is just to say nice things are going to happen until you make them happen. I am going to try and experiment.

You read too much, Mr. Kirk," Weigand told him. "Such men get foolish ideas.

A Chinese poet many centuries ago noticed that to re-create something in words is like being alive twice.

Where is it written that houses must be beige? Any dun colored house would look better if painted pineapple, cream, ochre, or even a smart sage.

Nunca dejes que la realidad te estropee una buena historia.

No te puedo devolver la canción, pero puedo mostrarte cómo danzan los peces.

Cuando te llegue a casa, imagina que no eres tú quién la ha escrito, sino un amigo lejano que necesita tus consejos. Tú eres el maestro, así que escribirás una nueva carta para dar respuesta a todo lo que plantea la que has recibido.

Francesc Miralles

Wish on everything. Pink cars are good, especially old ones. And stars of course, first stars and shooting stars. Planes will do if they are the first light in the sky and look like stars. Wish in tunnels, holding your breath and lifting your feet off the ground. Birthday candles. Baby teeth.

Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, or making friends. It's about doing what you love the best you know how. It's about making a heart pound in fear, shrink from rage, weep with understanding, or soar with excitement. It's about making worlds and living in them deeply enough someone else can join you there. It's about life changed to words, words changed to life, over and over and over again. It's about giving.

One of these days I'm-a make me a book out of you.

My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo.

I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be.

My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.

Books have always meant a great deal to me. When I was young, people used to have all kinds of advice as to how the working class could free themselves from factory life and all of that frustration, but for me the true secret tunnel, the hidden escape route, was in the library, reading books.

There's nothing wrong with technology. It's when technology is the story and not the artist, that's the problem.

I was fantasising about my own death, I started thinking what my funeral would be like and what music would be played, I was at that level of insanity.

Our imaginations are so stilted. The very thought of being like Jesus is breathtaking.

Even when we allow our imaginations to run wild on the joys of heaven, we find that our minds are incapable of conceiving what it will be like.

New Agers are terrified of their own mortality, and they want to believe that somehow the soul will survive. Of course it will, but not as they imagine.

You should no more allow sinful imaginations to accumulate in your mind and soul than you would let garbage collect in your living room.

Conscience is a vigilant eye before which each imagination, thought, and act is held up for either censure or approval . . .There is no greater proof of the existence of a moral law and Lawgiver in the universe than this little light of the soul. It is God's voice to the inner man.