Quotes About Imagination

Most black folk get the moral intent of black prophecy and believe that they and their divine mouthpieces have a God-given right to express their gripes in the privacy of sacred space. They do not mistake anger at America's imperial excesses for hatred of the nation or a denial of the wonderful changes that can unfold in the country when courage weds imagination.

His dreams were the natural reflex of hope and redeemed curiosity.

The writer's gift can make us see ourselves and our morals differently than our reality suggests.

Nothing is too wonderful to be true.

I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.

Two of life's greatest pleasures, by my reckoning, are camping and reading—most gloriously, both at once.

The life inside a book always felt welcoming to Knight. It pressed no demands on him, while the world of actual human interactions was so complex.

The painting seems to have a bubbly effect on both of them, aesthetic champagne.

The talent for self-justification is surely the finest flower of human evolution, the greatest achievement of the human brain. When it comes to justifying actions, every human being acquires the intelligence of an Einstein, the imagination of a Shakespeare, and the subtlety of a Jesuit.

She has no imagination and that means no compassion.

The brain is like a massive LEGO set, where each of the individual pieces is quite simple (like a single LEGO piece), and all the power comes from the nearly infinite ways that these simple pieces can be recombined to do different things.

If you spend long enough realizing a character in your book, congratulations, you've made a friend for life.

Flying Motorcycle

Travel Wizard Chess

Expecto Patronum

On the collector card that came with chocolate frogs

Of course, he could shoot lasers out of his eyes and his butt, just like Little Bunny Boom-Boom.

Nine And Three-quarters

He eats gillyweed

Alfonso Cuaron

174) Intimidating Snape Harry was so scared of Alan Rickman because "he was so fantastic at what he did I was freaked" that he had to keep telling himself "it's only a film, it's only a film ... nothing's real".

Weasleys' wizard wheezes

Newt Scamander

I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.