Quotes About Imagination

Sophie lut: « Va prendre l'étoile tombée Et fais enfanter la mandragore, cette racine pure. Dis-moi où sont donc les années écoulées Ou qui du diable le sabot fend. Apprends-moi à entendre des sirènes le chant Ou à retenir de l'envie les morsures Et trouve céans Quel bon vent Permet à l'esprit honnête d'aller de l'avant. Décide de ce qu'il en est Et le second couplet toi-mémé écriras. »

I asked you for Hobbits on a grail quest, and not one Hobbit have I seen!

TONINO READ HALF THE NIGHT. With all the grown-ups hard at work in the Scriptorium, there was no one to tell him to go to bed.

seen without clothes on. Their skins were greenish

There's an enormous library, which boasts a copy of every book in the world — and many more from other worlds as well.

Much of life becomes background, but it is the province of art to throw buckets of light into the shadows and make life a new again.

We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative. Imaginative people fidget with ideas, including the idea of a relationship. If they're wordsmiths like us, they fidget a lot in words.

Each photograph is a magic lamp rubbed by the mind.

Only by fumbling with countless bits of knowledge, and then ignoring most of it, does a creative mind craft something original.

For if I won't leap up and ride, who will? And, if no one will ride, when at last the spangly caravan is over, silence rules, and we are left staring across an empty street into the blank of each other's eyes, who will tell about the drums and the cartwheels of light? Who will say what marvel it was swept by?

Play is our brain's favorite way of learning

would escape to his own private planet, Ro, where an imaginary astronomer friend, Zi, had finally succeeded in building a machine to convert radiant sunlight into moral strength. Using it to waft peace throughout the universe, Zi

Consider the inner garden, that secret glade filled with day dreams, feelings, and memories. Sometimes they can be made physical, a goal of metaphysical gardening. Otherwise they remain mere reflections in a gazing ball.

One thing that struck me early is that you don't put into a photograph what's going to come out. Or, vice versa, what comes out is not what you put in.

If you scrutinize reality closely enough, if in some way you really, really get to it, it becomes fantastic.

A legend can just as well be founded in the future as in the past. It's called a 'prophecy,' Urruah said. You may have heard of the concept.

So You Want To Be A Wizard?

When friends couldn't be found, the books were always waiting with something new to tell. Life that was getting too much the same could be shaken up in a few minutes by the pictures in a book of some ancient temple newly discovered deep in a rain-forest, a fuzzy photo of Uranus with it's up-and-down rings, or a prismed picture taken through the faceted eye of a bee. -Nita Callahan- -So You Want To Be A Wizard-

When friends couldn't be found, the books were always waiting with something new to tell. Life that was getting too much the same could be shaken up in a few minutes by the pictures in a book of some ancient temple newly discovered deep in a rain-forest, a fuzzy photo of Uranus with it's up-and-down rings, or a prismed picture taken through the faceted eye of a bee.

She thought she would do something with them someday, although she could not have said what and in fact she never did.

Did she really remember that day so clearly or was she making it up as she went along?

When one is nothing, one invents. It fills a void.

when people are expecting to see nothing that is usually what they see.

There must be more to stories than you think.