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Quotes About Imagination

Perchance, like myself, you may cloud-gazing be; Perchance, my sweet friend, you are thinking of me...
~ Margaret Miller Davidson, 1838
It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are, if indeed you cannot get it above them, than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.
~ Henry David Thoreau, 1853
Come up here, you dream people. You're cloud-gazing. Have a look at something else than vapor.
~ Frank Hatfield, "Hum," 1909
Computers have lots of memory but no imagination.
~ Author Unknown
You can dance anywhere, even if only in your heart.
~ Author Unknown
Don't quit your day dream.
~ Internet meme
One man's daydreaming is another man's day.
~ Terri Guillemets
If not interrupted, an INFJ can stay in a fantasy-trance for hours.
~ Terri Guillemets
Why can't we move the clocks ahead to Friday afternoon around 4:00?
~ Interne meme
Desserts are the fairy tales of dining — a happily-ever-after to supper.
~ Terri Guillemets
Oh! dear to memory are those hours When every pathway led to flowers; When sticks of peppermint possessed A sceptre's power o'er the breast, And heaven was round us while we fed On rich ambrosial gingerbread.
~ Eliza Cook
Dreams are only thoughts you didn't have time to think about during the day.
~ Author Unknown
I began to talk about dreaming as a kind of nighttime psychosis, saying at one point "Dreaming permits each of us to become quietly and safely insane every night of our lives," which was really an elaboration of Freud's ideas about dreaming as a safety valve.
~ William C. Dement, M.D.
Dreams are foreign lands within the bounds of our own minds.
~ Terri Guillemets
Dreams are nocturnal flowers, blooming when the sun has strayed far enough that we can see clearly.
~ Terri Guillemets
...all dreams are a piece of vivid painting to the mind's eye...
~ C. C. Colton
Some colors exist in dreams that are not present in the waking spectrum.
~ Terri Guillemets
A nightmare is only a dream that hits turbulence.
~ Terri Guillemets
My dreams leap — dancers of the night, reaching heights unknown to the day.
~ Terri Guillemets
Dreams are free therapy, but you can only get appointments at night.
~ Terri Guillemets
He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie.
~ Anais Nin
Let the dragon in your soul be the keeper of your dreams — and breathe fire on all those who dare to tread, including your own demons and laziness.
~ Terri Guillemets
Exaggeration is to paint a snake and add legs.
~ Proverb
Spread your wings and let the fairy in you fly!
~ Author Unknown