Quotes About Imagination

One spring day Ramona had got lost, because she started out to find the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

carpet tickling the bottoms of their feet and their nosegays

Beverly Cleary

make. Henry sent it back across the street. Pow! Scooter

Ralph curled up on a heap of shredded Kleenex and took a good long nap. When he awoke refreshed, his first thought was of the motorcycle.

Beverly Cleary

If you don't see the book you want on the shelf. Write it

RAMONA AND THE MILLION DOLLARS

RALPH S. MOUSE

People often called Ramona bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. When she was younger, she blinked her eyes, held up her hands like paws, and wiggled her bottom as if she were wagging a tail.

If you don't see a book you want on the bookshelf, write it.

She's made me lots of costumes." Maybe "lots" was stretching the truth a bit.

Beverly Cleary

Honestly, Henry, sometimes I wonder how you get into these things.

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Beverly Cleary

If you can imagine a man having a vasectomy without anesthetic to the sound of frantic sitar-playing, you will have some idea of what popular Turkish music is like.

I wondered idly what the builders of Stonehenge would have created if they'd had bulldozers and big trucks for moving materials and computers to help them design. What would they have created if they had had all the tools we have? Then I crested the brow of the hill with a view down to the visitor center, with its café and gift shop, its land trains and giant parking lot, and realized I was almost certainly looking at it.

as the biologist J. B. S. Haldane once famously observed: "The universe is not only queerer than we suppose; it is queerer than we can suppose." The

We are not only what we do, we are also what we imagine.

Based on what we know now and can reasonably imagine, there is absolutely no prospect that any human being will ever visit the edge of our own solar system—ever.

The reason for this is that the universe bends, in a way we can't adequately imagine

Thank you," I said and then abruptly leaned across the counter and with two forked fingers poked him sharply in the eyes. Actually, I didn't do that. I just imagined it. But imagining it made me feel better. I

J. B. S. Haldane once famously observed: "The universe is not only queerer than we suppose; it is queerer than we can suppose.