Quotes About Imagination

Indeed, what more could you want? A little garden to amble about in, and infinite space to dream in. At his feet, whatever could be grown and gathered; over his head, whatever could be studied and meditated upon; a few flowers on the ground and all the stars in the sky.

My fellow, you strike me at present as being situated in the moon, kingdom of dream, province of illusion, capital: Soap-Bubble.

Make thought a whirlwind.

Every skull-cap may dream of the tiara.

The soul of a young girl should not be left in the dark; later on, mirages that are too abrupt and too lively are formed there, as in a dark chamber.

Does not this comprehend all, in fact? and what is there left to desire beyond it? A little garden in which to walk, and immensity in which to dream. At one's feet that which can be cultivated and plucked; over head that which one can study and meditate upon: some flowers on earth, and all the stars in the sky.

With Cosette's garter, Homer would make the Iliad. He would put into his poem an old babbler like me, and he would call him Nestor.

To see nothing of a person makes it possible to credit him with all the perfection.

Le mot tantôt comme un passant mystérieux de l'âme, tantot comme un polype noir de l'océan pensê.

The gravedigger's work is charming when done by a child.

Cuando le ocurría alguna vez, porque, ¿a quién no le ocurre? Decir: -¡Oh. si fuese rico!- no lo decía nunca echando el lente a una joven bonita, como el señor Guillenormand, sino contemplando un libro.

No ver a las personas es una cosa que permite suponer en ellas todas las perfecciones.

Se encontraba totalmente absorto en esa especie de contemplación estática en la que una autor ve surgir, una a una, todas sus ideas, por boca de los autores, entre el silencio de todo el auditorio

Phantoms do not wear round hats.

she imagined that her mother's soul had passed into this good man and had come to live close by her.

Um pequeno jardim para passear e a imensidão para sonhar. A seus pés, o que se pode cultivar e colher; sobre sua cabeça, o que se pode meditar e estudar; algumas flores na terra e todas as estrelas no céu.

Every time that the wind blows it bears with it more of the dreams of men than of the clouds of heaven.

What is admirable in the clash of young minds is that no one can foresee the spark that sets off an explosion or predict what kind of explosion it will be.

The doll is one of the most imperious needs and, at the same time, one of the most charming instincts of feminine childhood. To care for, to clothe, to deck, to dress, to undress, to redress, to teach, scold a little, to rock, to dandle, to lull to sleep, to imagine that something is some one,-therein lies the whole woman's future.

Venerate the man, whoever he may be, who has this sign—the starry eye.

our judgement of a man would be much sounder were it based on what he dreams rather than on what he thinks.

I am thirsty. Mortals, I am dreaming: that the turn of Heidelberg has an attack of apoplecy, and that I am one of the dozen leeches which will be applied to it. I want a drink.

Remplacer la pensée par la rêverie, c'est confondre un poison avec une nourriture.

pensée est le labeur de l'intelligence, la rêverie en est la volupté. Remplacer la pensée par la rêverie, c'est confondre un poison avec une nourriture.