Quotes About Imagination

Ah! Comme une existence peut devenir orageuse entre les quatre murs d'une mansarde! L'ame umaine est une fée, elle métamorphose une paille en diamants; sous sa bageutte les palais anchantés éclosent comme les fleurs des champs sous les chauds inspirations du soleil.

Reading brings us unknown friends.

La ilusión es una memoria convertida en deseo.

Félicité knew neither father nor mother, and was her own mistress from childhood. . . . Chance thrust her into the fields of science and the imagination and the world of literature, instead of loaving her in the small, tight circle of frivolous education traced for women - a mother's instruction in how to dress, in the hypocritical proprieties of society, in the arts of hunting a man.

I think it would be a good stunt to get along without any art at all for a generation, and see what we miss.

When Alice says she cannot believe in impossible things, the Queen replies: 'I dare say you haven't had much practice. When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

For the first rate poet, nothing short of a Queen or a Chimera is adequate for the powers of his praise.

Happiness is the chief material also in the construction of Utopias.

The teacher does not have to be, although he has to know: he is the mind imagining, not the executant.

I quite enjoy science fiction.

Vision is perhaps our greatest strength... it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown.

There is another world, other than/ this one we choose to live in.

Future Perfect Where you were before you were born, and where you are when you're not anymore might be very close. Might be the same place, though neither is as slippery as being here but imagining where you will have been- that point where things land, are finished, over, and gone but not yet.

Every town, every book, is a way to say, look, there's a new way, a different way. Every book in a bookstore is a fresh beginning. Every book is the next iteration of a very old story. Every bookstore, therefore, is like a safe? deposit box for civilization.

Gary Ross is amazing. He's just - he always has a billion ideas of what he wants, but has a very clear perspective also he just makes it work. He really does. He's trying different things and making everything look amazing.

The painter had achieved what we would all like to do: capture time and make it stand still

I miss the days when I was alone with my characters and no one else knew them except me.

It was great fun to think of myself as a doll I could bring to life.

Sometimes a girl has to stop waiting around and come up with her own fairytale ending.

She had too much imagination. Too much empathy [...] there was real pain in the world, right this very moment people were suffering unimaginable atrocities and you couldn't close your heart completely, but you couldn't leave it wide open either, because otherwise how could you possibly live your life, when through pure, random luck you got to live in paradise?

Wherever she went, whatever she did, part of her mind was always imagining a hypothetical life running parallel to her actual one,

Please release your expectations and open yourself to all possibilities.

She'd looked at the stubble along his jawline, and the thought had crossed her mind: He looks like Clark Kent, but maybe he's really Superman.

Sometimes she abrogated responsibility by fantasizing about kidnappers bursting into the house, bundling her into the back of their van, and taking her away for a long rest in a nice, cool, quiet dungeon.