Quotes About Imagination

We started making movies in the third grade.

What drew me into making movies is trying to make characters that step off the screen.

I was the kind of kid who was always making up stories and adventures.

I was never interested in 'making up' games when I was little. I wanted to create something real.

When I was little, I used to spend a lot of time making up stories when I was put to bed.

I remember making up songs in my head.

I have been addicted to crime since I was born. I was making up crime stories when I was a 4- or 5-year-old kid.

The whole idea of spellbinding, of being an entertainer, being the center of the stage, making up words - that let me know that writing is nice.

I was always really creative and making up stuff.

Lots of people can manage. That's not the question. It's this: Can we reimagine? Knowing how government works is not the same as getting it to work transformationally.

Literature is a house with many mansions.

Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.

I want us to be a country of free ideas, free markets, and a freedom to dream.

I would love to write more about my hardboiled gumshoe on Mars, Alex Lomax.

It is important to realize that as theism and theological thought developed in India, each "individual" god was seen as complex. Each was seen as the thousand-headed One, Purusha, who includes the others. Each expresses the full range of God's multiplicity. Further, each is not seen as penultimate, limited to the one quarter of Reality that we know; each is seen to stretch the theological imagination beyond the world-unworld

Tolkien imagined The Lord of the Rings as a book very much like The Hobbit: aimed at a young audience, built around humor and pranks, and modeled on the structure of a folktale or fairy story. He even called it "the Hobbit sequel" or "the new Hobbit." He

As Tolkien points out, the name is "a pleasantly ingenious pun," referring to those who "dabble in ink." It also suggests people "with vague or half-formed intimations and ideas.

Of course I loved book more than people.

Only thin, weak thinkers despise fairy stories. Each one has a true, strange fact hidden in it, you know, which you can find if you look.

Nothing is safe from you. If I were to court a girl who lived on an iceberg in the middle of the ocean, sooner or later— probably sooner— I'd look up to see you swooping overhead on a broomstick. In fact, by now I'd be disappointed in you if I didn't see you." "Are you off to the iceberg today?" Sophie retorted.

If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that although the actual image is clear enough, the interpretation is infinitely blurred, a sort of enormous rainbow of every possible colour you could imagine.

Sophie did not care to think how Howl might react if Fanny woke him by stabbing him with her parasol.

I could cut a star out of paper and drop it.

In addition, Master Twinkle seems convinced that someone is denying him a pair of stripey trousers.