Quotes About Imagination

car écrire ne conduit qu'à écrire.

No one has ever talked to me as he did of the color blue or of golden hair curling like shavings around a reddened ear ...

The word "pure" has never revealed an intelligible meaning to me. I can only use the word to quench an optical thirst for purity in the transparencies that evoke it – in bubbles, in a volume of water, and in the imaginary latitudes entrenched, beyond reach, at the very center of a dense crystal.

the problem here is that in the 20th century we have lost the relationship between imagination and fact.

Quite hypnotising a somewhat popeyed circle, he declared that there was no such thing as fantasy. There was a scale of illusions, declared he, which could be more or less solid according to the way they were sold.

Don't you ever imagine?" "What's the imagination got to do with anything?" "It's better than your ever increasing accuracies. They're as phoney as silicon boobs. Like proper tits, inaccuracies are much more entertaining.

Your kiss at night is the sweetest for sure It allows me to dream of a thousand more.

Siri's dream world had always been bizarre. In his childhood, the images that lurked there constantly interrupted his sleep. The same woman who raised him would come to his bed and remind him that these were his dreams inside his head, and nobody had more right to be in there than he. He learned how to walk tall through his nightmares and not be afraid of what happened there.

I always drink at lunchtime. It helps my imagination.

It is difficult to imagine love without generosity, without a desire to make some sacrifices. To-day

Sometimes I have thought that human misery goes far beyond human imagination,—imagination has its limits, and misery, like the vast seas, appears to be without end.

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

You know, Willie Wonka said it best: we are the makers of dreams, the dreamers of dreams.

We should be dreaming. We grew up as kids having dreams, but now we're too sophisticated as adults, as a nation. We stopped dreaming. We should always have dreams.

Perhaps history is a thing that would stop happening if God held His breath, or could be imagined as turning away to think of something else.

The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise.

Si puedes pensarlo, puedes hacerlo, si puedes visualizarlo, puedes convertirte en ello

Engineering is a great profession. There is the fascination of watching a figment of the imagination emerge through the aid of science to a plan on paper. Then it moves to realisation in stone or metal or energy. Then it brings homes to men or women. Then it elevates the standard of living and adds to the comforts of life. This is the engineer's high privilege.

Only things the dreamers make live on. They are the eternal conquerors.

Imagination succumbs to the general degradation of phantasy. To free it for the construction of a more beautiful and happier world remains the prerogative of children and fools.

Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design.

primitive man has never existed; he is nothing but a poetical creation of monistic imagination

Life often mocks every system; it is richer and fuller than the deepest thinker in all his wisdom can imagine.

Veertien Dertien had men net zo goed kunnen overslaan, omdat er alleen maar onzin in staat. Ik heb helemaal geen zoon, laat staan dat hij een rondleiding over mij zou presenteren in zaal Concordia. Eigenlijk had men één tot en met twaalf net zo goed kunnen overslaan omdat immers alles onzin is. Ik kan het weten, ik schrijf al die bullshit.