Quotes About Imagination

It seemed to him that he both knew too much to imagine [the child's] simplicity and too little to disembroil his tangle.

Though I couldn't make out what she was talking of I was terribly frightened; the absence of a clue gave such a range to one's imagination. (Sir Edmund Orme)

When I read a novel my imagination starts off at a gallop and leaves the narrator hidden in a cloud of dust; I have to come jogging twenty miles back to the denouement.

There's no romance here but what you may have brought with you.

What's a man,' she pursued, 'especially an ambitious one, without a variety of ideas?

But even while they pretend to be lost in their fairy-tale they're steeped in their vision of the dead restored to them.

Few of the men she saw seemed worth an expenditure of imagination, and it made her smile to think that one of them should present himself as an incentive to hope and a reward of patience.

To live in the world of creation—to get into it and stay in it—to frequent it and haunt it—to think intently and fruitfully—to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation—this is the only thing—and I neglect it, far and away too much; from indolence, from vagueness, from inattention, and from a strange nervous fear of letting myself go. If I can vanquish that nervousness, the world is mine.

Let your ideas be second-hand, and if possible tenth-hand, for then they will be far removed from that disturbing element- direct observation.

I cling to some saving romance in things.

Oh, I hoped there would be a lord; it's just like a novel!

You've got no excuse for being bored anywhere. When I was your age I had never heard of such a thing.

If the child gives the effect another turn of the screw, what do you say to two children—?

Chiamo ricca la gente ch'è in grado di realizzare gl'impulsi della propria immaginazione.

To live in such a place was, for Isabel, to hold to her ear all day a shell of the sea of the past. This vague eternal rumor kept her imagination awake.

It stretches, this little trick of mine, from book to book, and everything else, comparatively, plays over the surface of it. The order, the form, the texture of my books will perhaps some day constitute for the initiated a complete representation of it.

His mind contained several millions of facts, packed too closely together for the light breeze of the imagination to draw through the mass.

If the child gives the effect another turn of the screw, what do you say to TWO children—? We say, of course, somebody exclaimed, that they give two turns! Also that we want to hear about them.

He's a thin-skinned, morbid, mooning little beggar, with a good deal of imagination and not much perseverance, who will expect a good deal more of life than he will find in it. That's why he won't be happy.

De dragul vieÅ£ii, trebuie s? ne cre?m propriul antidot împotriva realit??ii

I am incapable of telling you not to repine and rebel, because I have so, to my cost, the imagination of all things, and because I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – fell for all you're worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live, especially to live at this terrible pressure, and the only way to honor and celebrate these admirable beings who are our pride and our inspiration.

Nothing irritates me so as the flatness of people's imagination.

I have never entertained an idea. Ideas often entertain me; (Chapter 7)

Bedizened in this unnatural garb Rosalind stood before the mirror, plunging a long look into its depths and reading heaven knows what audacious visions.