Quotes About Imagination

There were dreams once upon a time, dreams now all but forgotten. On sad days I dust them off and fondle them nostalgically, with a patronizing wonder at the naivete of the youth who dreamed them.

To write is to educate and to entertain. Never to exclude.

Imagination was condemned to make something of things.

Creation sprawls like a dewed and willing maiden outside your window awaiting only the lechery of your senses...

Our imagination just needs space. It's all it needs, that moment where you just sort of stare into the distance where your brain gets to sort of somehow rise up.

You know, when I was a kid waiting on the bus, I remember that was when I imagined my life. I imagined everything that I was gonna be when I grew up and I imagined all of these amazing journeys and amazing people I'd meet. Of course, all of it has kind of come to fruition.

So much of reading and writing to me is about being elsewhere, no matter how much I love where I am.

and I realized I couldn't imagine going through life not being in her presence. That her mere presence enveloped me in a kind of warmth. And it hit me that that's pretty much the essence of love.

The full imagination transforms the offering of first fruits into one of the archetypes of the human mind: the identification of the created thing with the God who made it. The Bible teaches us to read like this: it is the primer of a cultured and civilized man.

By the way, I'm not just one man with a chalkboard. I'm one man with four chalkboards.

My heart broke a little at her unblemished view of life: She still believed in innocent secrets, the heady rush of a good mystery, and happily ever after... (I wasn't about to disabuse her of those sweet notions.)...Little girls should be allowed to dream.

Every child could be an artist. Every child is an artist until a grown-up tells them they're not.

Supón que a más niños se les introduzca en el gran almacén del conocimiento acumulado por el hombre cuatro o cinco años antes de lo que se hace ahora. Imagina el resultado si Einstein pudiera haber tenido cinco años más de vida creativa. Imagina lo que podría ocurrir si los niños pudieran empezar a asimilar la sabiduría y el conocimiento del mundo años antes de lo que se les permite ahora.

Since such assumptions are limited only by one's imagination and are encouraged daily by revelations of government and institutional invasion of privacy," they wrote, "the boundaries between paranoid delusions and justified cautions indeed become tenuous.

Technology has now enabled a type of ubiquitous surveillance that had previously been the province of only the most imaginative science fiction writers.

The rest, but a small part, is fiction, part of the mosaic of storytelling that a writer must employ to bring life to his tale. But as to which part is truth and which small part is fiction, I will leave that for you to decide.

Regardless of how you come up with the good land and good sky images, you'll need Photoshop to combine them. I'll explain how to merge the two images in a way that our visual system finds believable in chapter 6

I+V=R (Imagination mixed with Vividness becomes Reality.) The speaker pointed out that the mind thinks in pictures, not in words. And as we vividly picture in our mind what we desire, it will become a reality.

The boy thought, How powerful a story is, and how by a kind of magic it compels the imagination; there was nothing in the world, it seemed to him, so mysteriously strong; and he began to wonder if he would ever have anything as beautiful to tell.

There's a certain magic about writing even when the characters refuse to act the way I want them to.

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilites. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal.

When the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on.

Men embody adventure, women embody hearth and home, and that has been pretty much it. Even as a child, I noticed that Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz spent her entire time trying to get back home to Kansas, and Alice in Wonderland dreamed her long adventure, then woke up just in time for tea.