Quotes About Imagination

If asked to make a drawing, little girls almost always create scenes with at least one person, while males nearly always draw things—cars, rockets, or trucks.

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.

When wombats do inspire/I strike my disused lyre

I WISH I WERE A LITTLE BIRD I wish I were a little bird That out of sight doth soar, I wish I were a song once heard But often pondered o'er, Or shadow of a lily stirred By wind upon the floor, Or echo of a loving word Worth all that went before, Or memory of a hope deferred That springs again no more.

She knows that soon she will have escaped into the world of the people better than us, the great objective world better than Shakespeare and Beethoven and Donatello put together—didn't they all come out of it?

Sam,' said Saul fervently, 'when you talk, you know you create a world.

walls in my office, bedroom,

Christmas time means dreams

As a little girl I used to daydream about my real father coming on a white horse to rescue me.

The same linguistic structures that allow us to soar through time and space and model entire universes in our heads also enable us to foresee our own mortality. Language also permits us to imagine a self that isn't earthbound and a world beyond death. So far it hasn't offered a way to avoid it.

It's small wonder that humans dream in myth and in art about other worlds, because we all have the experience of inhabiting one world and, as we are taught language, of walking through a door into another. Even physicists are obsessed with the idea of a multiverse. But we already live in one.

Human nature...is more powerfully acted on through imagination and sentiments than through intellect and reason.

But … even if I did – which I didn't – how could I have found them myself, found them old and faded? If I only wrote them down myself – later? How can Sebastian have found them a hundred years ago – if I hadn't even written them yet? And where did the information come from?

Everything exists, real or unreal. The truth is only a matter of perspective.

We tell them that we believe it will be beautiful because that is our specialty, we only create joy and beauty. We have never done a sad work. Through the drawings, we hope a majority will be able to visualize it.

Habíamos perdido nuestras capacidades físicas y morales de imaginar la libertad.

That's what love hotels are for." "I know," says Ai, "but this man comes alone. He says he comes to this room and thinks about the lovers who have been here before him, imagines himself as one of them, imagines himself having someone to hold. He tells whoever is reading this that he's grateful for the love we share without knowing.

I really do feel like I was born to write and tell stories.

A writer who can't use his firsthand experience must turn to secondhand experience, which can lead to thirdhand clichés.

Imaginative writers often project their own monsters and meanings on basic facts.

An obsessed reader figured that 'Armistead Maupin' was an anagram for 'is a man I dreamt up'.

Truth was, if you were going to believe something, it was best to believe in stuff that made the world seem a more interesting place.

when they hear hooves they look for zebras instead of horses

When they drove past it on the motorway, he used to fantasise that his parents were about to turn their vehicle towards the car park and surprise him, say the boot was full of secretly packed luggage and they were heading off for a fortnight. When he had kids of his own, he'd told himself, he'd surprise them that way for real.