Quotes About Imagination

If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb - or Dome of Worm - or Porch of Gnome - or some Elf's Catacomb?

When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and stuffed animals, pretend like they're real dogs.

Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art. It requires instinct and taste rather than exact measurements.

When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.

Apelles used to paint a good housewife on a snail, to import that she home-keeping.

I'm still a kid. I'm like six years old. But it's just a matter of wanting to get up, it's just a big journey. I felt like when I left home that I was on a journey, and I still am.

You've heard of people living in a fool's paradise? Well, Leonora has a duplex there.

Novel writing wrecks homes.

I remember being shocked when I discovered some of my school pals didn't have books in their homes. I thought it was like not having oxygen, or hot water.

You use metaphor to make yourself feel at home in the world. You use metaphor to extinguish the unknown. The problem is the unknown is where I want to be.

The act of reading is a partnership. The author builds a house, but the reader makes it a home.

We carry our homes within us which enables us to fly.

Poems aren't postcards to send home.

Reading dreams. That's what started her walking down the road. Every day she'd walk a little further: a mile, and come home. Two miles, and come home. One day she just kept on.

My first memories are from when I was very little, maybe three or four years old playing in my neighbourhood at home. I can picture myself with the ball at my feet from a very young age.

If you got a good imagination, a lot of confidence and you kind of know what you are saying, then you might be able to do it. I know a lot of colorful characters at home that would make great actors.

In the book, I tell the story of seeing old movies when I was young and acting out scenes at home. Now I get scripts, and I act them out.

I don't know how to sit outside myself and test against a hypothetical self who stayed home.

For me, the sketching of dresses was about fantasy and dreams. In my little room at home, I felt that I was somewhere else. In Paris, for instance.

It's the worst feeling when you come home alone late at night and think the stranger sitting on your couch is a pile of clothes.

Those of us with ravaged faces, lacking in the social graces, desperately remained at home, inventing lovers on the phone.

I had only two girlfriends. I didn't have many friends because I was staying at home and dreaming - drawing and dreaming.

I escaped the torture of my childhood home by reading. To this day it is still one of my greatest pleasures.