Quotes About Imagination

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.

fifty years later, part of the film's continued appeal lies in the fact that the mere mention of the title conjures up audience members' memories of watching the film for the first time. It's not just the film itself that is remembered, but the remembrance of watching it as a child.

Saddle your dreams before you ride them.

But only in their dreams can men be truly free. It was always thus and always thus will be.

Only in their dreams can men be truly free. 'Twas always thus, and always thus will be.

I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way.

Show me the heart unfettered by foolish dreams, and I'll show you a happy man." Keating: "But only in their dreams can men be truly free. 'Twas always thus, and always thus will be.

While he lived a violent life in his imagination, Eva, lacking any imagination at all, lived violently in fact.

Dragons, for instance, have the right of safe conduct anywhere in Faërie. A reader may not like to read stories about dragons, she may be morally offended or aesthetically uninterested or simply sick of the subject; but at any rate she will not complain that the author has cheated by bringing in a dragon, because dragons belong in fantasy.

God made man because he loves to hear stories, Alessandro said. That's a good story, huh?

Time Dreams. They are memories of the soul. They encompass all Time. They exist in the space of a dream.

I wanted to read a book with a good ending so I wrote one.

It would have been nice to have had unicorns.

More attractive metaphors create more popular buildings.

Walking through a town can be like flicking through a picture book.

Children, in a very real sense, have beginners' minds, open to wider possibilities. They see the world with fresher eyes, are less burdened with preconception and past experience, and are less guided by what they know to be true. They are more likely to pick up details that adults might discard as irrelevant. Because they're less concerned with being wrong or looking foolish, children often ask questions that adults won't ask.

Most songs have meager beginnings. You wake up in the morning, you throw on your suspenders, and you subvocalize and just think. They seem to form like calcium. I can't think of a story right off the bat that was that interesting. I write things on the back of my hand, usually, and sing into a tape recorder.

Q: What's hard for you? A: Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane. Math is hard. Reading a map. Following orders. Carpentry. Electronics. Plumbing. Remembering things correctly. Straight lines. Sheet rock. Finding a safety pin. Patience with others. Ordering in Chinese. Stereo instructions in German.

Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.

Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don't care if they lose it; they'll just make another one.

My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.

Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.

When you are writing, you're conjuring. It's a ritual, and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the way of whatever it is that you're inviting into the room.

Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.