Quotes About Imagination

Nothing is impossible. With so many people saying it couldn't be done, all it takes is an imagination.

You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.

A writer is very much like the captain on a star ship facing the unknown. When you face the blank page and you have no idea where you're going. It can be terrifying, but it can also be the adventure of a lifetime.

In the foyer of their building they displayed a large globe, one of the few in Philadelphia. On his way home from school each day, Hugh stopped in the office, spinning the globe on its axis, his fingers exploring the oceans and mountains of the world.

Albert Einstein was never clear if he believed in time travel, but had he raised a toddler, he certainly would have.

What's real and what's not? People we meet in books--Holden Caulfield, Captain Ahab, Huckleberry Finn, Harry Potter, Bilbo and Gandalf and Frodo-- can become more memorable, and more important to us than people with birth certificates and drivers' licenses. Characters spawned in an author's imagination find a home inside us. They make our lives richer. They become our best friends. They never disappoint. And they never die.

one of the fun things about being a scientist is being able to make up new words)

I-Five had both hands up, the index fingers extended, like a child pretending to point a pair of blasters.

Do you know that if you close your eyes really tightly, so you can see stars, when you open them again it's a brand new world.

I once had a patient who was convinced that his head was full of sea water and a crab lived inside. When I asked him what happened to his brain he told me that aliens had sucked it out with a drinking straw. "It is better this way," he insisted. "Now there's more room for the crab.

Her eyes brown in places that brown could only dream of reaching.

Audie could stare into the distance like he was looking across an ocean, or watching sparks floating above a campfire. He could make a cell seem like it had no walls.

Every childhood has a mythology that materialises around it. We add our own desires and dreams until the stories become like parables that are more emblematic than edifying.

Before we move forward, your first step should be to summon up your inner sadist. You don't have an inner sadist? Bullshit… Everyone wants to witness a train wreck, even if they peek at it through their fingers. Actually, you will need to imagine that the train is full of children and baby pandas as it smashes into a bus teeming with elderly churchgoers on a sunny Sunday afternoon.

The need to tell and hear stories is essential to the species Homo sapiens—second in necessity apparently after nourishment and before love and shelter.

My mind takes flight like a butterfly. There is so much to do. You can wander off in space or in time, set out for Tierra del Fuego or for King Midas's court. You can visit the woman you love, slide down beside her and stroke her still-sleeping face. You can build castles in Spain, steal the Golden Fleece, discover Atlantis, realize your childhood dreams and adult ambitions.

Autobiography is hopelessly inventive.

With our habit of sensible literalism we have a difficult time believing that the ancient mythopoeic imagination could have been a valid tool for serious knowledge.

So you should be able to see them clearly in your imagination. We always find it easier to visualize what we fear; it's what keeps us afraid of the dark." -Virginia Dare.

What you call magic is nothing more than an act of the imagination fired by the senses, then given shape by the power of your aura.

You're saying we lost the powers of magic because we grew lazy.

And in their rush to create wonders, they have ignored the wonders all around them, ignored the mysteries, the beauty. Myths and legends walk unseen amongst them, ignored, unrecognized. It was not always so.

The sliding glass door opened and Isis and Osiris appeared. They were dressed in plain white ceramic armor and were each carrying two swords, one in each hand. "They look like they just stepped out of Star Wars ," Josh muttered. He began to hum the Imperial March under his breath.

Entonces sabrás que Albert Einstein aseguraba que la imaginación era más importante que el conocimiento, puesto que este último está limitado a lo que sabemos mientras que la imaginación abarca un mundo aún por descubrir y comprender.