Quotes About Imagination

The library was magical because every time I walked through the door, there were literally thousands of voices ready and willing to have a conversation with me. I walked through the door, stared at all those stacks and bindings, and whispered, Tell me a story.

F)iction is...what ought to have been, not what actually was. At least, not exactly.

Nobody ever imagined a bunch of Orcs would steal a database table…

Reasons for cancellation order: 1. Baby-eating aquatic faerie equines do not exist.

You want to know what it's like to emigrate to Saturn system? Imagine spending six years in a straitjacket tied to the outside of a skyscraper, with only a couple dozen similar lunatics for company.

Because it's a thing of beauty, the ability to spin the cloth of reality, and you're a sucker for it: Isn't story-telling what being human is all about?

Imp froze as he rounded the corner onto Regent Street, and saw four elven warriors shackling a Santa to a stainless-steel cross outside Hamleys Toy Shop.

making possible huge economies of scale in the application of force majeure. (Subjects whose mind-bogglingly vast numbers beggar Agent First's imagination: it makes no sense, who needs that many slaves?)

concentrate on my deep breathing and the whole mindfulness shtick and on trying not to casually squeeze the contents of a taxiing aluminum tube of intercontinental goodness into my imaginary mouth—it's a Boeing 777 or Airbus A330 and it's nearly two miles away, a distantly rational part of me realizes—

Brains mouses over one of the images.

The only question," Eve mused aloud, "is whether time travel via the dream roads is call by value or call by reference.

Or was it running the world's weirdest Turing-complete variant Dungeons & Dragons campaign using a rule set isomorphic with first-order transdimensional summoning algebra—

Creativity consists of coming up with many ideas, not just that one great idea.

O. A. Manning's poetry

Had Julius lived in a happier age for men of his complexion, the world might have had a black Aesop or Grimm

Os maiores riscos nunca são aqueles que você pode ver e mensurar, mas aqueles que você não pode ver e, portanto, jamais poderá mensurar. Aqueles que parecem tão distantes, fora das fronteiras da probabilidade normal, que você não consegue nem imaginar que possam acontecer na sua vida – mesmo que, é claro, aconteçam, com mais frequência do que você se dá conta.

As humans, we are really bad at envisioning the counterfactual—what might have happened if different choices had been made.

I used to think the power of words was inexhaustible, That how we said the world was how it was, and how it would be, I used to imagine that word-sway and word thunder Would silence the Silence and all that, That words were the Word, That language could lead us inexplicably to grace, As though it were geographical. I used to think these things when I was young. I still do.

The general air of insecurity and affection made it too easy for him to imagine these once-a-year fabulous creatures as the cubicle dwellers most of them were in everyday life.

picture her naked but with the clown makeup on, and instantly I realize a new fetish has been born. My synaptic train has a new stop: Clowntown.

There is truth and there are lies, and art always tells the truth, even when it's lying.

I wonder if your mother was frightened by Peter Pan before you were born?

Lo, which a greet thing is affeccioun! Men may die of imaginacioun, So depe may impressioun be take.

I cannot imagine that I will ever come home for a homecoming game after I leave here, but it was fun to pretend that I was.