Quotes About Imagination

I could never have invented such a clan. Actually, I had no need to, with a family like mine you don't need imagination.

You explained to me that inspiration is born of stillness, and creativity comes from movement.

IN THE MIDDLE OF THAT YEAR I had a spectacular dream, and I wrote it down to tell my mother; we always did that, even though there's nothing as boring as listening to other people's dreams. That's

Escribo sobre lo que me importa, a mi propio ritmo. Y en esas horas ociosas, que mi abuelo llamaba horas malgastadas, los fantasmas de la imaginación se convierten en personajes definidos, únicos, con su propia voz y dispuestos a contarme sus vidas si les doy suficiente tiempo.

La biblioteca está habitada por espíritus que salen de las páginas en las noches.

Había inventado un amante perfecto y nutría esa quimera con invencible porfía. Su imaginación compensaba los ingratos abrazos con su amante, que la dejaban perdida en el limbo oscuro del deseo insatisfecho.

Aymaras—"children

Se protegió del sadismo y la estupidez de sus captores encerrándose en sus recuerdos, con la certeza de que Roser lo andaba buscando y un día lo encontraría, y en el silencio.

Ce face sa se aprinda pasiunea? Propria fantezie, presupun. Si ce o stinge? Rutina, daca o neglijezi, si saracia. (din "Viata si spirit")

Qué enciende la pasión? La propia fantasía, supongo, ¿Qué la paga? La rutina, si uno se descuida, la pobreza. (De biografía Vida y espíritus)

En eso consiste a menudo la escritura: encontrar tesoros ocultos, dar brillo a los hechos gastados y revitalizar el alma desesperada mediante el soplo de la imaginación.

Yo escribía cada día un nuevo episodio, inmersa por completo en el mundo que creaba con el poder omnímodo de las palabras, transformada en un ser disperso, reproducida hasta el infinito, viendo mi propio reflejo en múltiples espejos, viviendo innumerables vidas, hablando con muchas voces.

Tu piensas en palabras,para ti el lenguaje es un hilo inagotable que tejes como si la vida se hiciera al contarla. Yo pienso en imágenes congeladas en una fotografía.

On the whole, lying is a cheerful affair. Embellishments are intended to give pleasure. People long to tell you what they imagine you want to hear. They want to amuse you; they want to amuse themselves; they want to show you a good time. This is beyond hospitality. This is art.

through the loveliness and power of her dream world she was now, in her old frock and botched shoes, very likely the loveliest, mightiest and most dangerous person on earth

Children played guessing games, telling each other whether the gun fired was and AK-47, a G3, an RPG, or a machine gun.

I understand that through books one is able to journey. One is able to smell and taste and go into different worlds without actually leaving where you are, with your imagination. Imagination is more powerful than anything. For me, anywhere the imagination is fed, is sustained, is strengthened, then you are preparing that human being to deal with anything they face in life.

My very, very first moment on set on 'Lord of the Rings' in 2000 was me in a lycra suit, six and a half thousand feet up on a mountain in New Zealand, standing in front of 250 crew who were all wondering what I was doing - myself included.

I loved the idea of recording. The idea of sound-on-sound-recording captured me as a young kid, and once I realized what it was I had an epiphany. Before I was even playing the guitar, I would create these lists of how I would record things and overdub them, like Led Zeppelin song, 'I could put this guitar on this track...' and so on.

When I was little and I was introduced to Led Zeppelin, I didn't know what a zeppelin was or who Zeppelin was or what the machine was. The real meaning is whatever feelings and memories you attach to the music.

When I was a kid and listening to Zeppelin and Guns N' Roses, if someone had told me that there would come a time, and I would play some of those songs with those people, I would never have believed it.

Every day, I hear a song and I think, 'This would be great to cover on Glee.' I like Led Zeppelin, of course, and Pink Floyd, Alice in Chains.

I remember that poster of Led Zeppelin with the plane. I had it on my wall when I was a kid. I thought that was the coolest. It amazes me that it came true.

Jimi Hendrix, the Who, the Dead, Zeppelin, the Beatles - I paint to this music all of the time.