Quotes About Imagination

She was a master cake baker and her creations were not just oohed and ahhed over by other kids at my birthday parties, but requested by those kid's mothers for their own celebrations... She not only accepted any request I made, but far exceeded my own ideas as to how it might look. She was an artist who sculpted in cake and painted in frosting.

Sometimes having the dream makes you more content than having the reality.

Was a sadness so profound that the mind sought escape into fantasy?

With a book, she could at least visit with people, even if it was vicariously, even if they didn't exist beyond someone's imagination.

The books. So many books. She adored reading. It introduced her to characters, took her to places where she was never lonely.

And while she pretended he was someone else, he would pretend she had no reason to imagine he was anyone other than who he was.

She indicated that she fantasized about men. Now I'm left to wonder if women would pay to have their fantasies realized. Perhaps we should expand our business to include offerings for ladies.

What the devil is that?" Jack asked. Frannie eased around to see what Jack was staring at. Greystone's back bore a painting of an unusual creature with fire coming out of its mouth and wings spread wide.

Still she felt like a mermaid following a unicorn into the woods, all the while knowing that at some point, she would have to return to the sea.

Under every full moon, a woolgathering world idles.

I believe in the truth of fairy-tales more than I believe in the truth in the newspaper.

Poetry is something in-between the dream and its interpretation.

When I was a kid, I used to imagine animals running under my bed. I told my dad, and he solved the problem quickly. He cut the legs off the bed.

I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they'd be, what position they'd play and so on.

Si tienes el coraje suficiente para recuperar la inocencia y dejar volar la imaginación, también tú tendrás al dragón como amigo

Lewis was unique in the academia of his day for championing (along with his good friend, J. R. R. Tolkien) children's literature and fantasy novels as serious genres deserving serious consideration.

Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.

To poetry they prefer paradise. Matter of taste.

les maux atroces que les hommes ont imaginés pour oublier l'immense ennui qui les ronge ne sont que des jeux d'enfants.

Your imagination, my dear fellow, is worth more than you imagine.

Yes, I read. I have that absurd habit. I like beautiful poems, moving poetry, and all the beyond of that poetry. I am extraordinarily sensitive to those poor, marvelous words left in our dark night by a few men I never knew.

La tête ailleurs et le cÅ"ur dans un autre siècle déjà...

Consider, children ... the pain of touching the tip of your finger to your mother's stove, even for a fraction of a second. That is an experience which most of you have suffered. Now try to imagine that pain, not simply on a fingertip but spread over the whole surface of your body, and not for a mere second, but everlastingly. That, children, is hellfire.

It's very rare that a character comes to mind complete in himself. He needs additional traits that I often pick from actual people. One way you can cover your tracks is to change the sex.