Quotes About Imagination

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away….

His chief failing is a lack of curiosity." "I'd have said no imagination." "All beings possess imagination to varying degrees," Thrawn said. "It can be encouraged and nurtured, or can sometimes shine out in moments of stress. But curiosity is a choice. Some wish to have it. Others don't.

At the city, at the clouds . . . and, in his mind's eye

Truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense. And usually tries to leave a better aftertaste.

Oh, all of us dream That we are flying the skies With our eyes open

I heard about Tsukishima's ability from Urahara. To be able to repaint the past…it's terrifying just to imagine it. But…so what? No matter how much your past is changed…he cannot change your future! If a bond is lost…all you have to do is rebuild it!

Ichigo…there were so many things I wanted to do. Become a teacher…or an astronaut…or open a pastry shop…or go to Mr. Donuts and say "Give me one of each!" …or go to Baskin Robbins and say, "Give me one of each!" Sigh… if only there were five of me! Then I could be born in five different towns…and eat five different meals…and have five different jobs…and all five of me…could fall in love with the same guy.

If something is perfect, then there is nothing left. There is no room for imagination. No place left for a person to gain additional knowledge or abilities.

Sheesh…we speak badly about those who have only imagination and can't do anything. But once you see somebody who can do anything with just their imagination…it shows you how much easier it is not to have that power.

It takes a childish or corrupt imagination to make symbols of other people.

Storytelling is an escape from the jail of the self, leading to the ultimate adventure--seeing life through the eyes of another.

Memory is a dream to begin with.

Just don't lose the magic.

We're never too old for dreams.

Self-control is tightly linked with imagining the future. If you can't imagine the future, there's no reason to exhibit any discipline or self-control.

To create anything… is to believe, if only momentarily, you are capable of magic.

An artist can respect the backfield of fact before which every human being stands and choose not to address those facts.

To create anything — whether a short story or a magazine profile or a film or a sitcom — is to believe, if only momentarily, you are capable of magic. These essays are about that magic — which is sometimes perilous, sometimes infectious, sometimes fragile, sometimes failed, sometimes infuriating, sometimes triumphant, and sometimes tragic. I went up there. I wrote. I tried to see.

Had Dr. Seuss been a slightly insane pornographer, he might have written a book like this.--reviewing Nicholson Baker's House of Holes

There are not many mediums whose Dantes and Homers one can ring up and talk to. With games, one can.

Virtual worlds are places of imagination that encompass practices of play, performance, creativity and ritual.

There is no wall between a tactical and a strategic nuclear exchange, just a fuzzy line in the imagination of the amateurs and academics who advise their political leaders.

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense

Being safe is fiction.