Quotes About Imagination

Phillip Tomasso III

It was there. In my mind. After the call I'd just taken, after talking with LaForce. But I wouldn't say it out loud. Wouldn't even let myself form the complete thought in my head. Wasn't believing it. No fucking way zombies were real. Day of the Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Night of the Living Dead, The Walking Dead – Fuck no. Fuck Milla Jovovich and all of that shit.

Wow, there's lumps in the cosmic gravy. No seriously, there's lumps in the cosmic gravy!" -Phish, July 30th, 2017

Moon balloon, Moon balloon, Tickle the tree. Four balloons, More balloons, Blossom for me.

Actually everybody has a story, a fairy tale in their heart that they adhere to.

I would never advise shooing away a good idea.

What's in front of you is a whole world of experiences beyond your imagination. Put yourself, and your growth and development, first.

Let me just say that to imagine racism does not exist is imagination. And to imagine that it does not create its own set of problems is true imagination. So let's not imagine that racism is gone, extinguished, because it's not. We are seeing this in the top levels of the political arena, and we are seeing it very, very plainly.

The banal advice of writ in teachers is "write what you know," but the truth is, you don't know a place until you write it. "Write what you want to know" is more like it.

Reading is almost always subversive. From the time you read the next night's fairy tale under the covers by flashlight when you have already had your bedtime story from Daddy and are supposed to be asleep to the time you are an adult reading junk, hoping no one catches you at it, reading is private; that's the most seductive thing about it. It's you and the book.

Children are born with imaginations in mint condition, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. Then life corrects for grandiosity.

Reading" had always been my lifeline-- an escape to that imaginary world where hurts were fictional and endings happy...

American dreams are strongest in the hearts of those who have seen America only in their dreams.

What if?" points in both directions.

So much of our lives takes place in our heads - in memory or imagination, in speculation or interpretation - that sometimes I feel that I can change my life by changing the way I look at it.

And it's only by going nowhere- by sitting still or letting my mind relax- that I find that the thoughts that come to me unbidden are far fresher and more imaginative than the ones I consciously seek out.

Going nowhere was the grand adventure that made sense of everywhere else.

Reality seemed so paltry next to castles—dungeons—in the air.

Nothing sets you (or at least me) free creatively," says the untamed film director and Monty Pythonite, Terry Gilliam, "like having a set of limitations to explore.

L'homme ne s'avise de la réalité que quand il l'a représentée. Et rien, jamais, n'a pu mieux la représenter que le théâtre.

Aveva vent'anni e aveva bisogno di storie.

Memory is a child walking along a seashore. You never can tell what small pebble it will pick up and store away among its treasured things.

The title of the work, its place in the collective library, the nature of the person who tells us about it, the atmosphere established in the written or spoken exhange, among many other instances, offer alternatives to the book itself that allow us to talk about ourselves without dwelling upon the work too closely.

there exists around the written world opened by the work a multitude of other possible worlds, which we can complete by means of our images and our words. Denying oneself this work of completion in the name of some hypothetical fidelity to the work is bound to fail: we can indeed reject filling these gaps in a conscious way, but we cannot prevent our unconscious from finishing the work, according to its priorities and those of the era in which it was written.