Quotes About Imagination

Besides, nothin's real scary except in books.

Bayan Caroline, un çuval?ndan dikilmiÅŸ etek ve kot gömlek giyen bu k?l?ks?z birinci s?n?f öÄŸrencilerinin hayal ürünü edebiyata yabanc? olduklar?n?, çoÄŸunun ilk yürümeye baÅŸlad?klar? günden beri pamuk tarlalar?nda ot temizlediklerini, domuzlara yem verdiklerini bilmiyordu. Öykünün sonuna gelince, Ah, ne güzeldi deÄŸil mi? diye sordu.

Ništa zapravo nije zastrašuju?e osim u knjigama.

went to the back yard and found Jem plugging away at a tin can, which seemed stupid with all the bluejays around.

lo hizo sumamente bien: nunca estaba demasiado cansado para jugar al escondite, ni demasiado ocupado para inventar historias maravillosas, ni demasiado absorto en sus problemas para no escuchar con toda seriedad una queja. Cada

I never looked forward more to anything in my life. Hours of wintertime had found me in the tree-house looking over at the school yard, spying on multitudes of children through a two-power telescope Jem had given me, learning their games, following Jem's red jacket through wriggling circles of blind man's buff, secretly sharing their misfortunes and minor victories. I longed to join them.

No, don't tell me, let me tell you: you had a marvelous time but you wouldn't dream of living there.

Talking to Francis gave me the sensation of settling slowly to the bottom of the ocean. He was the most boring child I ever met.

Thus we came to know Dill as a pocket Merlin, whose head teemed with eccentric plans, strange longings, and quaint fancies.

Let's try to make him come out," said Dill. "I'd like to see what he looks like." Jem said if Dill wanted to get himself killed, all he had to do was go up and knock on the front door.

Hmp, maybe we need a police force of children .

Thus we came to know Dill as a pocket Merlin, whose head teemed with eccentric plans, strange longings, and quaint fancies. But

Young ladies sketched, did watercolors, wrote short paragraphs of imaginative prose. To Alexandra, there was a distinct and distasteful difference between one who paints and a painter, one who writes and a writer.

Beautiful things floated around in his dreamy head. He could read two books to my one, but he preferred the magic of his own inventions.

We came to know Dill as a pocket Merlin, whose head teemed with eccentric plans, strange longings, and quaint fancies.

He rarely gathered news; people brought it to him. It was said he made up every edition of The Maycombe Tribune out of his own head and wrote it down on the linotype.

The book to read is not the one that thinks for you, but the one that makes you think.

A medida que avanzaba el verano nuestro juego progresaba. Añadimos diálogos y perfeccionamos la trama hasta que compusimos una pequeña obra teatral en la que introducíamos cambios todos los días. (...) Habíamos compuesto una obra breve y triste, tejida con trozos y retales de habladurías y leyendas de la vecindad.

Oh dear me, yes. The novel must tell a story.

The course of English Literature would have been decidedly different had Mr. Wordsworth owned a power mower, she thought.

He could add and subtract faster than lightning, but he preferred his own twilight world, a world where babies slept, waiting to be gathered like morning lilies.

Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that's why other people hated them so, and if I started behaving like one I could just go off and find some to play with. (Lee 119)

Miss Caroline parecía no darse cuenta que los andrajosos alumnos de la primera clase, los cuales habían cortado algodón y cebado puercos desde que supieron andar, eran inmunes a la literatura de imaginación

Kad je gospo?ica Kerolajn stigla do mesta gde Gospa-Ma?ka poziva samoposlugu da naru?i miševe u slatkom ?okoladnom prelivu, razred se ve? vrpoljio kao crvi?i za pecanje u tegli. Izgleda da gospo?ica Kerolajn nije bila svesna toga da su odrpani, u košulje od grubog platna i suknje od džakova za brašno odeveni prvaci, od kojih je ve?ina po?ela brati pamuk i hraniti svinje ?im je prohodala, bili neprijem?ivi za književne maštovitosti.