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Quotes About Imagination

It says: 'Scenery is here. Wish you were beautiful.
~ David Foster Wallace
I was looking at my sneakers and making my feet alternately pigeon-toed and then penguin-toed on the bedroom's blue carpet.
~ David Foster Wallace
Fictionally speaking, desire is the sugar in human food.
~ David Foster Wallace
The best way to describe the sonic environment at the '98 CES is: Imagine that the apocalypse took the form of a cocktail party.
~ David Foster Wallace
Derivatives're just trig with some imagination.
~ David Foster Wallace
masturbated to thoughts of having moist slapping intercourse with Darlene
~ David Foster Wallace
Children and adolescents play a nearly incomprehensible nuclear strategy game with tennis equipment against the real or holographic(?) backdrop of sabotaged ATHSCME 1900 atmospheric displacement towers exploding and toppling during the New New England Chemical Emergency of Y.W. CELLULOID (UNRELEASED)
~ David Foster Wallace
Fai ciao ciao al burocrate rimane il film favorito di Mario tra tutti quelli di loro padre, forse per la sua serietà così poco di moda. Anche se a Mario ha sempre detto che è troppo mieloso, piace anche a Hal, la cartuccia, e gli piace proiettarsi con l'immaginazione nel personaggio dell'ex burocrate mentre guida piacevolmente verso casa e verso la cancellazione deontologica.
~ David Foster Wallace
This is what happens: you imagine the things I will say and then say them for me and then become angry with them. Without my mouth; it never opens. You speak to yourself, inventing sides. This itself is the habit of children: lazy, lonely, self. I
~ David Foster Wallace
with a big color Xerox of M. Hamilton as Oz's West Witch on the door and custom fiber-wiring for a tri-modem TP console.
~ David Foster Wallace
She was the kind of fatally pretty and nubile wraithlike figure who glides through the sweaty junior-high corridors of every nocturnal emitter's dreamscape
~ David Foster Wallace
Television," after all, literally means "seeing far";
~ David Foster Wallace
The two most engaging powers of a good author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new.
~ William M. Thackeray
There's a great power of imagination about these little creatures, and a creative fancy and belief that is very curious to watch . . . I am sure that horrid matter-of-fact child-rearers . . . do away with the child's most beautiful privilege. I am determined that Anny shall have a very extensive and instructive store of learning in Tom Thumbs, Jack-the-Giant-Killers, etc.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
To those great geniuses now in petticoats, who shall write novels for the beloved reader's children, these men and things will be as much legend and history as Nineveh, or Coeur de Lion, or Jack Sheppard.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
For novelists have the privilege of knowing everything.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
Vi è stato un tempo nel quale il mistero e la meraviglia dell'artigianato avevano un giusto riconoscimento nel mondo, un tempo nel quale l'immaginazione e la fantasia si mescolavano a tutti gli oggetti prodotti dall'uomo; e in questi giorni ogni artigiano era quel che oggi definiremmo un artista.
~ William Morris
And now we turn to another blank page. A future standing before us like freshly fallen snow. Awaiting that first mark, that first step forward. A new journey to be started. A new promise to be fulfilled. A new page to be written. Go forth unto this waiting world with pen in hand, all you young scribes, the open book awaits. Be creative. Be adventurous. Be original. And above all else, be young. For youth is your greatest weapon, your greatest tool. Use it wisely.
~ William Moulton Marston
It's too bad for us 'literary' enthusiast, but it's the truth nevertheless — pictures tell any story more effectively than words.
~ William Moulton Marston
He loved a shadow I'd created in his mind.
~ Unknown
Genius is play, and man's capacity for achieving genius is infinite, and many may achieve genius only through play.
~ William Saroyan
All great art has madness, and quite a lot of bad art has it, too.
~ William Saroyan
The child race is fresh, eager, interested, innocent, imaginative, healthy and full of faith, where the adult race, more often than not, is stale, spiritually debauched, unimaginative, unhealthy, and without faith.
~ William Saroyan