Quotes About Imagination

I wish everyone was a sci-fi geek because then there would be no violence in the world. There'd be no wars. There'd only be people e-mailing each other.

He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers.

The only war is the war against the imagination.

War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. That a war can be represented as helping a people to 'feel good' about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure.

The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers; a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer.

Generals are fascinating cases of arrested development - after all, at five all of us wanted to be generals.

Instead of going to war, we should put the money into arts and culture and let creative people define what Britain is.

Vermeer's woman reading a letter is as full of latent or subliminal kitsch as Tolstoy's War and Peace.

At home it's all Batman and Star Wars and they do gang up on me. Sometimes I don't want to dress up as Darth Vader or play train sets, so I'll go out for a drink with the girls.

Writing a picture book is like writing 'War and Peace' in Haiku.

War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon's proclamations.

Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.

Memory, like love, is an act of imagination, an abandonment and a possession.

I sort of wish they had invented hooky by now," said Brandon M.

It was one of the two questions people most frequently asked writers, and if he invited her to join him, it wouldn't take her long to get around to the other one. "I've always wanted to know, Colin. Where do you authors get your ideas?" We steal them. From extraterrestrials. There's a warehouse outside Tulsa…

For a moment he could have sworn he smelled violets, which was very peculiar, since he had no idea what violets smelled like, except somehow he knew they smelled just like Lady Emma.

A couple of nights ago I had an erotic dream about Edward Norton.

Si comienzas a imaginar cosas que no van a ocurrir, lo único que conseguirás es salir herida.

She pretended she understood him, but how could she? He lived in the stars, and she was good, solid earth. She

Eventually Theo would pick up their daughter, kiss the top of her head, and carry her to an old spruce stump. He'd crouch down, gather up the beach glass that was still scattered there, and whisper in her ear. "Let's build a fairy house.

Boredom comes simply from ignorance and lack of imagination.

Idle to pretend that we have lost paradise. We never had it; it is still to make.

I'm certain indeed, I think there's no doubt of it - that reading does young people much harm. It puts things into their heads that never would have been there but for books. I declare, I think reading's a very dangerous thing; I'm certain all Mary's bad health is entirely owing to reading. You know we always thought she read a great deal too much for her own good.

Imagine it. Use all your strength and imagine it exactly. And it will happen that way.