Quotes About Imagination

Nothing we ever imagined is beyond our powers, only beyond our present self-knowledge.

In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities.

Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.

Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas.

Let me tell you something: you can not write good fiction about ideas. You can only write good fiction about people.

television wears away the capacity to be astonished'.

Özgürlük, yaln?zca bir hak deÄŸildir; kazan?lmas? gereken bir beceridir ayn? zamanda; insan?n dünyay? kendi göz mercekleri d???nda farkl? mercekler alt?nda görebilme ve daha önce kimsenin hayal etmediÄŸi bir ÅŸeyi hayal etme becerisidir, güzellik, anlam ve ilham bulmakt?r. Her hayat, özgürlük hakk?nda yaz?lm?? bir hikayedir.

We control the content of our dreams.

A literary influence is never just a literary influence. It's also an influence in the way you see everything - in the way you feel your life.

Beginners cringe at the thought of perspective, but you have to admit it's very cool once you see that car sitting on your paper like it was a real three-dimensional object! You don't want to be drawing side views all your life,

I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.

And if the world does turn, and if London burns, I'll be standing on the beach with my guitar. I want to be in a band, when I get to Heaven. Anyone can play guitar, and they won't be a nothing anymore...

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

You can't realize your dreams unless you have one to begin with.

All I really need to know I learned in kindergarten. —Robert Fulgham

Indeed, the commotion of the spirits and humors may be so great that such appearances may even occur to those who are awake, as is seen in mad people, and the like. So, as this happens by a natural disturbance of the humors, and sometimes also by the will of man who voluntarily imagines what he previously experienced, so also the same may be done by the power of a good or a bad angel, sometimes with alienation from the bodily senses, sometimes without such alienation.

Reply to Objection 3: As man is more perfect than other animals, he has more intrinsic operations than other animals, because his perfection is something composite. Hence the angels, who are more perfect and more simple, have fewer intrinsic operations than man, for they have no imagination, or feeling, or the like. In God there exists only one real operation---that is, His essence

Reply to Objection 2: The senses are suspended in the sleeper through certain evaporations and the escape of certain exhalations, as we read in De Somn. et Vigil. iii. And, therefore, according to the amount of such evaporation, the senses are more or less suspended. For when the amount is considerable, not only are the senses suspended, but also the imagination, so that there are no phantasms; thus does it happen, especially when a man falls asleep after eating and drinking copiously.

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

Books are becoming everything to me. If I had at this moment any choice in life, I would bury myself in one of those immense libraries...and never pass a waking hour without a book before me.

What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!

If anybody would make me the greatest king that ever lived, with palaces and gardens, and fine dinners, and wine and coaches, and beautiful clothes, and hundreds of servants, on condition that I would not read books, I would not be a king. I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of books than a king who did not love reading.

I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings. The partly draped statue has a charm which the nude lacks. Who would have those marble folds slip from the raised knee of the Venus of Melos?

...And great cloud-continents of sunset-seas.