Quotes About Imagination

I bought my brother some gift-wrap for Christmas. I took it to the gift wrap department and told them to wrap it, but in a different print so he would know when to stop unwrapping.

I worked in a health food store once. A guy asked me, 'If I melt dry ice, can I take a bath without getting wet?

Imagine how weird phones would look if your mouth was nowhere near your ears.

Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish.

What would a chair look like if your knees bent the other way?

I had a dream that all the babies prevented by the pill showed up. They were mad.

Imagine Oshkosh straitjackets for little insane children.

I Xeroxed a mirror. Now I have an extra Xerox machine.

I saw a man with a wooden leg and a real foot.

I was trying to daydream but my mind kept wandering.

I'm writing a book. I'm almost finished. I numbered the pages. Now all I have to do is fill them in.

I'm actually writing a short story about a photographer who went completely insane trying to take a close up photo of the horizon.

I was reading the dictionary, I thought it was a poem about everything

Harold under his breath: "Ms. Yuka, I would love to kiss the backs of your legs while you were in line in a bank.

I'm donating my body to science...fiction.

Looking at the wingless angel Harold firmly believed her shadow should be in color.

Away with them, away; we should not believe fairy stories if we wish to be good. Think of them as persons from the fairy wood.

Until the rainbow burns the stars out in the sky Until the ocean covers every mountain high Until the dolphin flies and parrots live at sea Until we dream of life and life becomes a dream Always

A library doesn't need windows. A library is a window.

The sociologist Elise Boulding diagnosed the problem of our times as "temporal exhaustion": "If one is mentally out of breath all the time from dealing with the present, there is no energy left for imaging the future.

Starting anew with a clean slate has been one of the most harmful ideas in history. It treats previous knowledge as an impediment and imagines that only present knowledge deployed in theoretical purity can make real the wondrous new vision.

In the genre of science fiction it is more important to be fruitfully mistaken than dully accurate. That's why we are science fiction writers, not scientists.

Why should we all act so like children? Because we are? Yes, I suppose so." She made a humorous grimace. "But even then, why?" She pondered this for some time. "I suppose it was worth while-all those things I made-in a way," she mused, "and I suppose I wouldn't have made them, otherwise." She looked doubtful. "Is that it? So we will do the things that would not seem worth while-if we stopped to think?"...Yes, that was it!

He could no longer be that Ed Larsen, but, through a lack of imagination or just sheer exhaustion, he couldn't come up with a new one, and faked his way through the days like a bad actor...