Quotes About Imagination

Margaret Atwood, J.G. Ballard, Ray Bradbury, Jim Crace, Arthur C. Clarke, Russell Hoban, Anna Kavan, Doris Lessing, Cormac McCarthy, Walter M. Miller, Tim O'Brien, Will Self and Marcel Theroux

It is a degree of slenderness way beyond the capacity of our imaginations, but you can get some idea of the proportions if you bear in mind that one atom is to the width of a millimetre line as the thickness of a sheet of paper is to the height of the Empire State Building.

There is energy of all sorts flowing through our world; it is not hard to imagine new ways in which that energy can do the work of humanity, new ways to align our needs and the planet's behaviours.

Realizing they had no clear notion of how far it was from New York to Paris by the great circle route, they went to a public library and measured the distance on a globe with a piece of string. By such means was one of history's greatest planes built.

Edison was good at making things the world didn't yet have but terrible at seeing how it would choose to make use of them.

Brian Aldiss

there. I had thought we would have

It's just that. It's just that sometimes all I see ahead of me is TV dinners - a sort of endless line of them dancing towards me like in a cartoon - Katz

I'm out of rabbits and hats to pull them out of.

Ms. Wormwood: Calvin, can you tell us what Lewis and Clark did? Calvin: No, but I can recite the secret superhero origin of each member of Captain Napalm's Thermonuclear League of Liberty. Ms. Wormwood: See me after class, Calvin. Calvin: [retrospectively] I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.

I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night.

How come we play war and not peace? Too few role models.

I think nighttime is dark so you can imagine your fears with less distraction.

I try to make everyone's day a little more surreal.

I won't eat any cereal that doesn't turn the milk purple.

Hold it. You know what I'd like to see? I'd like to see the three bears eat the three little pigs, and then the bears join up with the big bad wolf and eat Goldilocks and Little Red Riding Hood! Tell me a story like that, OK?

CALVIN: When I grow up I want to be an inventor. First I will invent a time machine. Then I'll come back to yesterday and take myself to tomorrow and skip this dumb assignment.

Look! A trickle of water running through some dirt! I'd say our afternoon just got booked solid!

I thought my life would seem more interesting with a musical score and a laugh track.

That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.

HOBBES: If you don't get a goodnight kiss you get Kafka dreams.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

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It's a magical world, Hobbes, ol' buddy... Let's go exploring!