Quotes About Imagination

in an ideal world, you'd be able to pick beef puddings from a beef pudding tree.

A city with no way of telling the time can by no stretch of the imagination be called civilised. It's just a mob with walls.

Real life's only bearable if you don't have to live in it all the time

I personally feel that a box, far from being a dead end, is an entrance to another world. I don't know to where, but an entrance to somewhere, some other world.

Don't worry. There's nothing down there. Your biggest enemy is your imagination.

just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are.

Umakni vso domišljijo, in se trdno okleni tega, kar dejansko si.

Because I write contemporary, magical realism and speculative for both children and adults, I spend a lot of time thinking about real settings for the contemporary books and the pieces that could be taken from those places to create fantasy spaces. But I also like to look for the magic in the real world…

Wie nooit meer terug naar huis mag, raakt in een staat van verbeelding.

Every time he asked about it, Joseph smiled wider and with increasing desperation. Nef and I gave him all sorts of helpful ideas, the best of which, as I recall, had the Man of La Mancha meeting the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future

To make a really effective monster you need to begin with a good man, and tell him lies … Edward

Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manefestation of nature agree to find new shapes.

He was an idea man," recalled Phillips. "He never did any great physics, but look at all the lovely ideas that he worked out with his students.

En 1921, el año en que Robert se graduó en el instituto de la Cultura Ética, Adler exhortó a los estudiantes a desarrollar «imaginación ética», a ver «las cosas no tal como son, sino tal como podrían ser».

The deviant and the conformist...are creatures of the same culture, inventions of the same imagination.

Während sie die Stufen zur Bibliothek hinablief, konnte Furia die Geschichten schon riechen: den besten Geruch der Welt.

Ohnehin waren die wenigsten Romanfiguren so detailliert beschrieben, dass Leser und Autor dasselbe Bild vor Augen hatten.

Nicht jeder, der ein Bücherregal hat, ist auch gleich ein Bibliomant.

Was a mirror that existed only in a mirror not just as real as its original? It fulfilled its role just as well as its counterpart - it reflected. Merle couldn't think of anything else that was able to do this: to do something without itself being. For the first time, she asked herself whether all mirrors were not always magic mirrors. "Mirrors can see," Arcimboldo had said. Now she believed him.

Wie hoch muss man die wunderbare Macht der Bücher schätzen, da wir durch sie sowohl die Grenzen der Erde als auch der Zeit unterscheiden können. Wir betrachten in ihnen, wie in einem Spiegel der Ewigkeit, die Dinge, die sind, und die Dinge, die nicht sind.« Richard de Bury, Philobiblon, 1344

Die bibliomantischen Lesezeichen wurden nicht leichtfertig ausgehändigt, sie waren Eintrittskarten in eine Welt, die stolz darauf war, dem Großteil der Menschheit verschlossen zu bleiben.

Dla nas, Europejczyków, Chiny by?y wci?? jeszcze czyst? kart?, dziewiczym obszarem dla naszych w?asnych wyobra?e?. Raz by?y niebem, raz piek?em, innym razem znów "?ó?tym niebezpiecze?stwem", rzadko kto? rozró?nia? stany po?rednie.

Warwick Castle, Oxford University, the Cotswold, and the countryside of England are my favorite places to visit when I'm in England. Whenever I visit, I feel as if I've come home. These places inspired my settings for my fantasy series, Bitter Frost Series, Wordwick Games, and The Alchemists Academy. I didn't know the great author of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy was also inspired by Warwick, Oxford, and Cotswold. Imaginative minds must dream alike.

Ever since the night I saw him in my bedroom, every hero in every romance novel I read, looked and sounded like him. - Simone Fortuna