Quotes About Imagination

Great conversations or presentations take you to ideas you'd never considered.

Studying brands outside of your industry can spark creative brainstorms.

One technique to jump-start your creativity is to embrace new experiences.

What TED celebrates is the gift of the human imagination." —Sir Ken Robinson, TED 2006

Vision begins with you.

Vision must be present for creativity to flourish.

The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience - anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form.

I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it.

I grew up in a bookless house - my parents didn't read poetry, so if I hadn't had the chance to experience it at school I'd never have experienced it. But I loved English, and I was very lucky in that I had inspirational English teachers, Miss Scriven and Mr. Walker, and they liked us to learn poems by heart, which I found I loved doing.

No jewel hold a candle to the cuckoo spit hung from the blade of grass at your ear. No chandelier see you better lit than here.

Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning.

If you want to know the feeling, just take your bottom lip and pull it over your head.

Carol, if you could be a member of the opposite sex for twenty-four hours, and then pop back and be yourself again, who would you be and what would you do?" My mind started racing like mad. Opposite sex? For twenty-four hours? Who would I be? What would I do? I said a quick little prayer. Please, let me just open my mouth and have whatever comes out make sense. I took a deep breath and what came out was this: "I'd be Osama bin Laden, and I'd kill myself.

within himself, so is he" (Proverbs 23:7).

The young lady reminds Belinda of a watercolour painting done by someone who had not much colour but a lot of water, giving off the impression of not only being colourless, but rather damp.

All that we see or seem, is but a Dream within a dream." Edgar Allan Poe

Carol J. Perry

I want to kiss the bottom of the ocean before I burst through its surface into the sunlight. Otherwise I'll always be wondering about what was left unseen at the bottom.

Sempre que sonhava, morria no sonho.

There is something very cool about writing your worst memories through someone else's eyes. You start to see what happened to you... almost as if it happened to somebody else. Especially if that made-up person is nice, it's a great exercise because there are many mean people in this world.

What a lot of fun you could have... if you made unimportant things seem important and went about them with enthusiasm!

What a lot of fun you could have, Minty discovered, if you made unimportant things seem important and went about them with enthusiasm!

Casting wistful glances at the Woodlawns' house Now

A childhood is what anyone wants to remember of it. It leaves behind no fossils, except perhaps in fiction.