Quotes About Imagination

There is hardly anything at all. His life is suddenly a large, empty house, with each vacant room waiting to be furnished. His made-up wife. His invented father. His pretend childhood. He wonders if it is possible to unlie yourself.

I think that someone should do a version of Die Hard in heroic couplets.

There are more ways to think about experience than there are experience to think about.

swarmed by bats, abducted by aliens, sprayed with poison gas, had stuff dropped on our heads . . . ," said Coke. "And all of these things actually happened?" asked Dr. McDonald. "You didn't make any of it up?" "Yes, it all happened!" Pep shouted at him. "And a lot of other stuff, too. You could fill a—" "Book!" Dr. McDonald said, his eyes suddenly wide.

But that's crazy!" Pep said. "Who would attack the largest ball of twine in the world?" "The largest cat in the world?" suggested Coke.

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The Most Genius Idea!

Billy said that if you try to multiply numbers higher than ten, the earth will fall off its axis. And if you get all the way up to eleven times eleven, you get sucked into a parallel universe, and you travel back in time until you get to the Big Bang, when your head explodes.

Fiction is what you get when you rub two things together," I said. Everybody laughed even though I didn't say anything funny.

do you think MM stands for?" I asked. "March Madness?" replied Michael, who never ties his shoes. "Marilyn Monroe?" said Ryan, who will eat anything, even stuff that isn't food. "Mickey Mouse?" said Neil, who we call the nude kid even though he wears clothes. "My Mom?" said Alexia, this girl who rides a skateboard all the time. Everybody was buzzing, which was weird because we're not bees.

My story was about these giant man-eating monsters fighting on trick bikes in outer space until they were all dead. I drew cool pictures to go with it. Emily, this girl with red hair, said my story was scary. But Emily thinks everything is scary. Miss Daisy said I had a good imagination, but she asked me if next time

period. "Do you still think books are boring, A.J.?" she asked me.

That was Mrs. Roopy wearing a powdered wig and an army uniform." She may have been right, but I didn't want to admit it, because I hate her.

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school? When we got to the all-porpoise

My friend Alexia and I were the knights. We got on

Yeah, if Mickey Mouse was a mass murderer.

Let's say each one of these glue sticks is a wheel

I'm going to finger paint a picture of a tree falling in a forest and crushing a family of happy butterflies until they are dead

Nicholas was yanking our chain. Everybody knows there were no schools in dinosaur times. Besides, it would be hard to ride a dinosaur. They don't even make saddles for them. Dr. Nicholas would have had to ride the dinosaur bareback.

Neil the nude kid even though he wears clothes. "Maybe he rented it," said Michael. "You can rent anything. There's probably a place called Rent-a-Turkey.

story I ever heard!" Emily said. Then she started

I love butterflies," Andrea said. "I'm going to finger paint a picture of a happy family of butterflies." "I'm going to finger paint a picture of a tree in a forest where your butterflies can live," said Emily. "I'm going to finger paint a picture of a tree falling in a forest and crushing a family of happy butterflies until they are dead," I said.

library is the tallest building in the world, because it has the most stories. Mr. Klutz totally doesn't