Quotes About Imagination

synaesthesia—the condition where two or more senses are connected, for example when numbers are seen in colour and every series of numbers forms an image in the mind.

Sometimes the best ideas occur to you while your mind is occupied with something completely different. Pieces of the puzzle can suddenly fall into place.

IS SCIENCE FICTION ABOUT TO GO BLIND?" asks _Popular Science_ associate editor Gregory Mone, apparently worried that this may be a symptom of too much fondling of one's Singularity.

like the 20th, perched high above Paris. The Parc de Belleville has an unparalleled view of Paris (second only to the view I had from my rooftop apartment), and I could have easily imagined living there amid its rough brick streets and the human scale of the architecture.

There is no off position on the genius

But unlike Sir Sith's other childhood dreams--dating Dame May Whitty, driving two race cars at once, being voted King of the Gypsies--this one has come true.

This is what love does: It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters, build the scenery, guide the plot. The person you love sits across from you, and you want to do everything in your power to make it possible, endlessly possible. And when it's just the two of you, alone in a room, you can pretend that this is how it is, this is how it will be.

I dream with open eyes,' he answered, looking around at the door, 'and others see my dreams. That is all.

It isn't a bad thing to hear voices... but you mustn't for a minute imagine that all is wise that comes to you out of the night world.

Just as blue is delicate and mysterious, yellow clear and unsubtle, and red sanguine and passionate, so he felt ulfire to be wild and painful, and jale dreamlike, feverish, and voluptuous.

Meggie Folchart: Having writer's block? Maybe I can help. Fenoglio: Oh yes, that's right. You want to be a writer, don't you? Meggie Folchart: You say that as if it's a bad thing. Fenoglio: Oh no, it's just a lonely thing. Sometimes the world you create on the page seems more friendly and alive than the world you actually live in.

We find human faces in the moon, armies in the clouds; and by a natural propensity, if not corrected by experience and reflection, ascribe malice or good-will to every thing, that hurts or pleases us. Hence … in poetry … trees, mountains, and streams are personified, and the inanimate parts of nature acquire sentiment and passion.

The universe is made of stories, not atoms.

Low ceilings cramp your thoughts, whereas vaulted ceilings, especially if they are circular and open to natural light, tend to release your thoughts, to let them rise.

We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.

Black has depth.. you can go into it.. And you start seeing what you're afraid of. You start seeing what you love, and it becomes like a dream.

Float with me in the world of ether.

Online pornography allows individuals to explore creative sexual possibilities they never knew existed but also creates entirely unrealistic expectations for real life sexual interactions.

The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.

Words are powerful. They too can be the agents of what is new, of what is conceivable and can be thought and let loose upon the world.

We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dream life.

It's not a lie. It's a gift for fiction.

I'm not God but if I were God, ¾ of you would be girls, and the rest would be pizza and beer.

Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever-fresh and radiant possibility.