Quotes About Imagination

If I were king of the world, babies born in airplanes, balloons and blimps would, instead of choosing to be German, Maldivian or American, all get special heavenly blue passports with a stork on the cover labeled 'Sky Baby' - and they'd be allowed to come and go anywhere they please.

Every person who went into the space industry did so because they looked up at the sky and were fascinated by it - not because they wanted to make a military or commercial object.

What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky' by Lesley Nneka Arimah blew my mind.

I heard about desert, but I never seen them with my eyes. I just couldn't believe there was nothing, except sand and except the stars in the sky.

From a genre perspective and a character perspective, you know, sky's the limit.

For 'Avengers,' in the Albuquerque desert, we shot New York there. And I was standing on a platform, nine feet high... and it was the rooftop of a skyscraper in New York. And it was all desert around me!

In my mind, I imagined L.A. to be skyscrapers on the beach. Of course, that's not what it actually looks like. And growing up watching 'Beverly Hills 90210' and 'Melrose Place,' I always had an obsession with L.A. and California in general.

When I was young and I could dream a bit, I could see myself participating in the slam dunk contest. I've always wanted to experience that.

If I had a super power, I'd want to be able to fly just so I could float around my apartment. Or I'd really like telekinesis because then you'd be able to slam the door on somebody.

I was able to make up lots of portementos, literally hundreds and hundreds of words... See, I find that mine don't have any meanings. They're not proper. Although I've got a great dictionary of them. It's like the Cockney rhyming slang or something.

Writing is still on my slate.

I haven't had television since 1991, and it definitely influences me. As a child of the 1970s, I couldn't hold a narrative in my head; I was lucky if I could hold a joke in my head, because every time you turn on television or radio, it wipes the slate clean - at least in my case.

If I don't think about anything, and start with a clean slate, in terms of what I have to do, a lot of different ideas come up, and I can think about things more openly.

I like... piecing things together because it gives you a product that you would never have come up with just sitting down and writing on a blank slate.

I am a comic writer, which means I get to slay the dragons, and shoot the bull.

There can be no dragon slayer in the absence of dragons.

There was a movie called 'Hawk the Slayer' when I was a kid. I think only three people saw it, but me and my brother saw it. I remember when I was a kid thinking that's kind of cool. It was just this sort of action adventure-y sort of thing.

I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.

Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.

If you have rules, you let creativity sleep.

I spend a lot of time practicing active imagination before I go to sleep. What I'm feeling will manifest as images through active imagination. And then I go to sleep, and those play out even more in my dreams.

I can think. I can sleep. I can move. I can ride my bike. I can dream.

If I had a Salvador Dali painting, I would cuddle it to sleep.

Sometimes, I make music in my sleep. So I get up, put on my headphones, and compose it on the piano.