Quotes About Imagination

Anyway, I'm sure the guy lives a million miles away." "Or he could live right in your backyard. You never know." I nodded, keeping a poker face, even though the idea of Sir Leo living in my backyard was extremely appealing.

Curiouser and curiouser, as Alice in Wonderland would say…

That is, when ordinary reality is perceived as a construction rather than as an objective fact, fantasy can no longer be thought of as what contaminates reality, but should instead be regarded as a process of bringing the world alive for us in a particularly vibrant fashion. According to this vision, "reality" is a fantasy that we elaborate on an increasingly intricate level during our entire lifetimes.

When it comes to fantasy formations, it is therefore essential to distinguish between (1) unconscious fantasies that curb our existential options and (2) imaginative and creative fantasies that allow us to observe the world from novel angles. Lacan's assault on narcissistic fantasies is directed at the former, whereas his commentary on the poetic potentialities of language could be argued to relate to the latter.

An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.

I read stuff. Books are not my only friends, but we're friendly. So there.

I know everyone has dreams of flying, but this isn't a dream of flying. It's a dream of floating, and the ocean is not water but wind. I call it a dream, but it feels realer than my life.

Did he just say stormsharks? My inner nerd is elated. Can anything I will ever hear from now until the end of time sound cooler than stormsharks?

Some people think it's comforting to imagine being flung over a rainbow when you die, grabbed by your ankles by a bluebird, and swung into the void.

A wonderful thing one learns when one writes about imaginary kingdoms for a living is that, in fact, anyone can imagine anything, and if the writer is good, they can do it persuasively.

Once upon a time, he was the child of some other mother, and his beloved was a wonder of the world.

Children are better at feeding monsters than adults are. They don't have the burden of suspicion.

Here is something I learned in the hundreds of years I spent in the center of the Earth and later in the libraries and bedchambers, pressed between your pages, carving my way out of your stories with one of the knives you gave me to show your readers that I was a spitfire, a flame-breathing beauty with black hair and barbed bits. Imaginary countries and imaginary cunts are in the same category. They are the same story.

I thumb. There's a flying alien witch. Awesome.

Stelele sunt asezate astfel incat sa formeze litere. Alfabete celeste. Scrieri care se schimba pe masura ce se mischa pamantul. Daca te uiti asa la cer, ai senzatia ca e un imens poem schimbator , sau poate o schrisoare , care initial a avut un autor, apoi, dupa ce pamantul s-a mischat, un alt autor a completat-o . Asa ca stau si ma uit la cer, pana cand , intr-o zi , voi putea s-o citesc.

It has been somewhere said by Johnson, that merely to invent a story is no small effort of the human understanding.

Ladybugs all dressed in red Strolling through the flowerbed. If I were tiny just like you I'd creep among the flowers too!

La noche, la duda y el miedo son poderosos hechiceros que han poblado el mundo de la ficción más que la mitad de los novelistas que han existido.

Annika no quería llegar tan lejos. Opinaba que el hombre era el único ser dotado de fantasía y sentimientos, y que por eso mismo tenía una grave responsabilidad sobre la naturaleza y sobre todo lo que vivía.

Ja, her står vi nå andektige foran en slitt blå dør og vi vet ikke hvor den fører. Døren bærer spor etter menneskehender. Låsen er treg. Vi hører hvordan den knirker. Den vil ikke gi etter, den er gammel og rusten. Døren vil ikke opp. Og her, foran denne forseglede blå døren, slås vi unektelig av tanken: Hvem var det som sist gikk gjennom denne døren? Hvem låste den sist? Hva skjuler seg bak den?

We especially need imagination in science.

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

The true basis of the imagination is reality

It behooves us to think of what may happen to the spirit of the child who is condemned to grow in conditions so artificial that his very bones may become deformed.