Quotes About Imagination

The only way we know it's true is that we both dreamed it. That's what reality is. It's a dream everyone has together.

All this led up to the day Desdemona dangled a utensil over my mother's belly. The sonogram didn't exist at the time; the spoon was the next best thing.

Basically, what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly.

Sure. Martinis. We can pretend we're Salinger characters.

What's the first thing a kid says when he learns how to talk? 'Tell me a story.' That's how we understand who we are, where we come from. Stories are everything. [179]

Actual physical practice produced changes in each volunteer's motor cortex, as expected. But so did mere mental rehearsal, and to the same degree as that brought about by physical practice. Motor circuits become active during pure mental imagery. Like actual, physical movements, imagined movements trigger synaptic change at the cortical level. Merely thinking about moving produced brain changes comparable to those triggered by actually moving.

I know loving me isn't easy – the all-night helicopter parties, the glow-in-the-dark haircuts, but when I look at you it's like praying with my eyes. I know it's stupid to not own a gun yet have so many triggers, but in some other world gigantic seashells hold humans to their ears and listen to the echo of machines.

Being six is the closest most of us will ever come to understanding what it's like to have a butler.

Necesita acercarse a los diferentes aspectos de su vida con una cualidad de niño - con la maravilla de un infante que cree que todo es posible.

they'll evoke fond memories, and they may bring you some comfort." Henry could not imagine such a day, but he thanked her. "The girls will cherish

learn, to make sense of the world around us. As long as we need stories, we will need books, and as long as there are books, there will be libraries.

We use stories to teach, to learn, to make sense of the world around us. As long as we need stories, we will need books, and as long as there are books, there will be libraries.

Dreaming is cheap. It doesn't cost a thing. In dreams you don't have to pay the bills or pay the rent. In dreams you can buy a house and be loved back.

Charlotte was lost for words. What did one say to a man in a fake marsupial head, wearing a grass loin-pouch and trying to debate ethnobotany in the middle of a lost world that was supposed to be inaccessible by foot?

Mas, para mim, a leitura é muito mais que isso. Os livros ensinam a você como outras pessoas pensam o que estão sentindo e como se transformam de seres comuns em seres extraordinários. Muitas vezes eles são tão atraentes e inteligentes que você prefere passar o tempo lendo sobre elas a fazer qualquer outra coisa.

I don't want to feed my dreams.

I wonder if life is still something I can make up.

His apartment is small and filled with books from the toilet tank to the top of the fridge. I think he has to keep reading these stories because he so rarely has any stories of his own. I

I do not think that hour there told me anything I could not have imagined myself, but being there, in that silence, gave me hope that at least there are no wars after death. I

thinking that the world was like an orange, that I could split it open with my thumbnail and find a whole different world, the grown-up world, the secrets beneath the skin.

Tell the story that's been growing in your heart, the characters you can't keep out of your head, the tale that speaks to you, that pops into your head during your daily commute, that wakes you up in the morning.

drawing of a boy with brown hair and

But if, in the end, she never lived the glittering, rich-lady life of her youthful imaginings, she'd have a life that made her happy.

She'd lost her taste for fiction. Sometimes she thought it was because spending even a few hours in an imaginary world would make it too tempting for her to consider other versions of her own story, other ways it could have unfolded. A different ending, a true happily-ever-after.