Quotes About Imagination

I think that ideas exist outside of ourselves. I think somewhere, we're all connected off in some very abstract land. But somewhere between there and here ideas exist.

Every time a child says I don't believe in fairies there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

The longer I look at something, the more my imagination churns and I can find somewhere to put it.

You've got to dream a little bit if you're going to get somewhere.

I was sure that somewhere a grandiose carnival was going on in the sky, and I was missing it.

I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.

It doesn't matter where I'm at - if I'm somewhere sitting still for more than an hour, rhymes start popping in my head... It's just kinda instilled in me.

I feel like I'm attracted to characters who have one foot firmly planted on the ground. And their heads up in the clouds somewhere. Practical dreamers. They try to impress you that they've got this whole thing figured out, but there's more going on inside their heads than you might imagine.

I am not somebody who meets a man or a woman somewhere and feels like that is an incredible character that I must write into a play.

You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.

I pick up inspiration from everywhere and it all manages to keep stored in my brain somewhere.

My idea of going to hell is going somewhere where there are no books.

My books come to me in images, and sometimes the image is at the beginning of the book, and sometimes it's simply a flash somewhere in the middle.

I wish there was something where you could blink an eye and be somewhere. I'm a very nervous flier. I wish we could get from point A to point B instantly.

I would write scripts and little plays and perform them in the living room for my family when I was little with my brother until my mom said, 'Alright, you need to go do it somewhere else other than the house.'

I was never so directly inspired by fashion. It always came from somewhere else.

I just loved the feeling of performing, of using my imagination to take me somewhere else.

I like to focus on making the music sound simple and true, and very lush and full. I think music should take you to somewhere else where you have the space to contemplate or exercise your imagination. All the while you should be feeling real good, like when you have a delicious and decadent meal, macaroni and cheese or foie gras.

The only logical thing I can think of is that I knew there were such things as artists, and I knew there were none where I lived. So I knew that to be an artist you had to be somewhere else. And I very much wanted to be somewhere else.

This is what I have discovered - and it has been a gift in itself - that books live over and over again in different people's minds. That I might mean one thing as I write, but a reader's experiences will take it somewhere else. That is like a conversation, I think. It is a true connecting up.

I simply don't understand authors that know everything before they write it; it seems so cold blooded. I think it's lovely when the story takes over and goes somewhere else.

I have a very strong imagination and have since I was a little kid. That is where a lot of my world comes from. It's like I'm off somewhere else. And I can have a problem in life because of that, because I'm always off in some other world thinking about something else. It's constant.

I'm always really interested in different environments and how they affect people's lives and what it would be like to live somewhere else.

I think obviously there is some kind of life form somewhere else. Whether it looks like the creature in 'Alien Autopsy,' I'm not sure.