Quotes About Imagination

I want to know what she's like over a candlelight dinner. I want to see her on the beach. I want to know what it would feel like to walk beside her talking about the thoughts you never let her share.

this epidemic of fear was not born out of some genuine, daily increasing certainty of disaster but of an infection of the imagination whose susceptibility to its own terrors might eventually lead to an actual catastrophe, in other words the false premonition that a man who had lost his bearings might succumb to once the inner structure of his life

I close my eyes, hoping to slip into the same dream again, but then that never happens, does it?

Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities.

The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization.

Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.

I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.

A graveyard of buried hopes is about as romantic a thing as one can imagine.

ART is a word which summarizes THE QUALITY OF COMMUNICATION.

had never realized the headlines of this world were the product of overheated imaginations, staged events and tons of nothing! It took my breath away.

A culture is only as great as its dreams, and its dreams are dreamed by artists.

A civilization is as great as its dreams, and its dreams are dreamt by artists.

The greatest poem is not that which is most skillfully constructed, but that in which there is the most poetry.

Miniver loved the days of old When swords were bright and steeds were prancing; The vision of a warrior bold. Would set him dancing. Miniver sighed for what was not, And dreamed, and rested from his labors; He dreamed of Thebes and Camelot, And Priam's neighbors. EDWIN A. ROBINSON

Struck dumb by love among the walruses And whales, the off-white polar bear with stuffing Missing, the mastodons like muddy buses, I sniff the mothproof air and lack for nothing.

Life is so painful that even when we won happiness, we suffered by imagining miss it.

She wanted to follow. Nothing was real. Didn't he understand? She could not imagine a universe, no matter how many dimensions there were, without a Damon in it. There was no world for her, if there was no Damon.

You showed me what it was like to love. What the world could be like, if

The image isn't reality. Even though we're used to thinking that way alot of the time. We show a kid a picture of a dog and say 'This is a doggie' - but it's not. It's just an image.

Mouse sandwiches and open graves?" Meredith arched an elegant eyebrow. "I think you're getting Stephen King mixed up with Lewis Carroll.

No, I'll dream another dream," he said. "I've made up so many things, now I'll just go into one. I'll be part of it.

You can't just go out- No, I'll dream another dream.

There is a Shadow World, like our own but different, existing alongside ours but never touching. Some people call it the world of dreams, but it is as real as anything else.

Okay," Caroline said. She didn't sound as frightened as everybody else. That was the advantage to having no imagination, Bonnie thought. You couldn't picture the terrible things that were going to happen to you.