Quotes About Imagination

I look out through the eyeholes and feel exactly the way Michael Jackson's son Blanket must have felt

How could you think of such awful things? liberal critics always ask. How else could I possibly amuse myself? I always wonder.

she spoke as if the future were a hypothetical problem to be solved.

talent is evenly distributed. You never know how many talented people are out there until you invite and inspire them to be creative.

I often say if men were meant to fly we would have been born with either feathers and wings or at the very least parachutes that pop out of our butts.

Growing old is unavoidable, but never growing up is possible. I believe you can retain certain things from your childhood if you protect them - certain traits, certain places where you don't let the world go.

expect in many growed-up men you'd call sensible there's a little boy sleepin'—the little kid they onced was—that still keeps his fear of the dark.

She'd never known a book lover to grow up to cause trouble.

Her past seems a span of innocuous days. And her nights? Her most dramatic recurring dream in recent nights was one in which she had difficulty opening a jar of peanut butter.

Their silhouettes lingered in her mind. So did the sound of their kisses. She rose and went to the window and looked out over the busy playground. Children running, pulling, sliding, calling, spinning. If you traced all these children back to their beginnings, you came to kisses.

known. If you are completely preoccupied with what is already known, you can't make the leap into that other dimension of creativity or imagination or poetry, or whatever it is that allows for seeing a hidden order in things which, until it is seen and realized, it isn't seen at all.

Ultimately, I see mindfulness as a love affair — with life, with reality and imagination, with the beauty of your own being, with your heart and body and mind, and with the world.

I want to have the eyes of an adult to see the world as it is, but I more desperately want to have the heart of a child to make certain that I never forget what it could be.

Faith is the womb in which all worthwhile and spectacular things have ever been born.

One dream, will suffice a thousand nightmares.

You shall discuss dreams, not deny!

You can't grasp the wonderful and keep your feet on the ground.

Ideas are God pulling up the frame of the curtain to show us what can be.

It is by faith that poetry as well as devotion soars above this dull earth that imagination breaks through its clouds breathes a purer air and lives in a softer light.

I cannot say who, precisely, came up with the idea of a Stone Age family.

When I read the books, I imagined that the family of Ron Weasley was my family.

My family could only afford to get me the box of eight Crayola crayons, but I craved the one with all 24 colours. I wanted magenta and turquoise and silver and gold.

I really can't say what inspires me the most, because I'm inspired by just about everything. My feelings and relationships, my family, Scooby-Doo. Opinion of my work. Everything. Not just one thing.

I look for things that no one I know, even myself, would ever come up with. If your solution is something that your friends or family might come up with, throw it away.