Quotes About Imagination

Just close your eyes and keep your mind wide open.

We need a place," she said, "just for us. It would be so secret that we would never tell anyone in the whole world about it." ... She lowered her voice almost to a whisper. "It might be a whole secret country," she continued, "and you and I would be the rulers of it.

The wonderful thing about books is that they allow us to enter imaginatively into someone else's life. And when we do that, we learn to sympathize with other people. But the real surprise is that we also learn truths about ourselves, about our own lives, that somehow we hadn't been able to see before.

I love revision. Where else can spilled milk be turned into ice cream?

Sitting in cold wet britches for an hour was no fun even in a magic kingdom.

stories are better than fiction, so let's hope for some real-life sequels.

The future is not there waiting for us. We create it by the power of imagination. —Pir Vilayat Khan

Life is an ever-emerging creative process. Our thoughts, beliefs, assumptions, choices, actions, and words are the tools we use to invent our experiences and our circumstances.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. —Albert Einstein

Mom thinks I live in this dream world where everybody's Ivana Trump.

Dreams are just dreams until they change everything.

They Sailed Away In A Silver Cup Upon A Grassy Sea

I'm not an infant, Georgie." "I can see that." His bedclothes left little to the imagination.

The warmth that went through her could not be laid entirely to a hot blush. "You, sir, have a very evil imagination!" "Nay, madam," he denied. "Vivid, aye! But nothing about you is evil, and that's all I think about." -Erienne & Christopher

The fairies went from the world, dear, Because men's hearts grew cold: And only the eyes of children see What is hidden from the old...

Wild is a word like 'soul'. Such a thing may not exist, but we want it, and we know what we mean when we talk about it.

I don't own a computer. I'm waiting for the kind where I can look at the screen and say, "Hey, I need a pizza," and one comes out and hits me in the eyebrows.

Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting on at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of the long day makes that day happier.

Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier." —

From him I have learned that prayer is not asking for what you think you want but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine. To be more grateful, more able to see the good in what you have been given instead of always grieving for what might have been.

The lover of books is a miner, searching for gold.

the imagination works not so much through inspiration as through perseverance. One must slog through the false starts, spot the wrong words and hold out for the right ones, and above all, be vigilant about staying on the path of revision, no matter how uncomfortable or even painful the journey might become.

Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting for one at the end of a long day makes the day happier.