Quotes About Imagination

Hayal edilen asla yitirilmez.

but as his years advanced Lewis had seen less and less purpose in distinguishing between fact and fiction.

En el mundo hay algo peor que el Terror... Hay sueños que se vuelven realidad.

If I've learned anything from two decades of fantastique writing it's that the more extraordinary the subject matter the more specific the details need to be.

Unfortunately we have to remember we're scientists, not writers of popular semifictional archaeological claptrap.

them had been from Mars. But

You should see the latest computer-generated movies featuring the long-gone old stars with the new. I've watched the video of Arizona Sunset at least a dozen times. Who plays the leads? Humphrey Bogart, Lionel Barrymore, Marilyn Monroe, Julia Roberts, and Tom Cruise. It's so real, you'd swear they all acted together on the set.

Pitt has always looked in the future and found it full of excitement and adventure. In the 1970s he was a man of the '80s. Now he is a man of the '90s. Like a scout out for a wagon train, Pitt looks over the next hill and tells us what's there. He sees what we'd all like to see in our imaginations.

There's a little of Dirk Pitt in all of us.

Having a ten-year-old daughter can be like living with a fairy. Something magical.

He believed that our life-stories are ours to construct as we wish,within or even against the constraints posed by the real world...

Alison was snoring gently, and I was thinking about what would happen if I pinched her nose. And covered her mouth. The head is so full of holes, and the ear, nose and throat are supposedly connected; you would wonder why it isn't possible to breathe through your ears.

As late as 1701, a Bordeaux ship's captain was able to persuade his employers that he had lost his cargo off Newfoundland to a fire-breathing dragon looming out of the deep.

I had a heady dream of loving her, as if she were an actress on a stage of my own making; and as the night wore on, my imaginings wandered into make-believe, and died beyond the tent of the mosquito net, where Vincent was snoring, and the African stars were shining in through our lone window, and nothing was quite real.

Isn't it great when you're a kid and the world is full of anonymous things? Everything is bright and mysterious until you know what it is called and then all the light goes out of it...Once we knew the name of it, how could we ever come to love it?...For things had true natures, and they hid behind false names, beneath the skin we gave them.

What does the perfect elevator look like, the one that will deliver us from the cities we suffer now, these stunted shacks? We don't know because we can't see inside it, it's something we cannot imagine, like the shape of angels' teeth. It's a black box.

His legs remembered the correct position for squatting down with toys. He played. He fit the round male studs into the round female grooves. He got some thinking done as he hunkered down on his fallen-sleep legs.

The farm's carpenters were true artisans - they had to be to keep all those book from jumping off the shelves, so many wonders did they contain.

Estas fantasias la consolaban cuando el peso que soportaba amenazaba con romperla en mil pedazos.

If that happened to the harmless places, what do you think the haunted places looked like?

memory has a palette and broad brush.

The french-fry smell was almost another person in our room, stumbling around in the dark

Where the goblin world and its assaults were banished and there was nothing but possibility

I lit fires because I didn't know back then it was enough to see it in my head," Zippo said. "I didn't have to do it. That's why people dig my boudoir photographs. Seeing it can be the same thing as doing it.