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Quotes About Imagination

The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational.
~ Sydney J. Harris
Didn't have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.
~ Al Yankovic
Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction
~ David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
Some books make us dream, others bring us face to face with reality, but what matters most to the author is the honesty with which a book is written.
~ Paulo Coelho
... pure honesty is a doubtful quality; it means often lack of imagination.
~ Virginia Woolf
The most important thing about creativity is that you honor your creativity and you don't ever ignore it or go against what that creative image is telling you.
~ Lady Gaga
Reading with children is an enormous gift to them. It's a great honor to invite children to read with adults.
~ Henri Nouwen
Snow White has always been one of my favorite fairy tales growing up. To be able to say, "I'm going to be Snow White" - it's crazy. It's an honor.
~ Lily Collins
Tread softly for you tread on my dreams. -Honor,from the Summer King.
~ O.R. Melling
Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.
~ Judy Garland
Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.
~ Stevie Wonder
Through the sunset of hope, Like the shapes of a dream, What paradise islands of glory gleam!
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.
~ John Keats
I hope children will be happy with the books I've written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.
~ Beverly Cleary
The ideal you seek and hope to attain will not manifest itself, will not be realized by you, until you have imagined that you are already that ideal.
~ Neville Goddard
I feel my characters are valid, my characters are people, my characters have hope. Hope is the thing that'll take us through.
~ Jack Kirby
There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.
~ Jonas Salk
Art is the highest form of hope.
~ Gerhard Richter
I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a decent wine. How that process happens, I'm sorry to tell you I can't describe.
~ John Hurt
If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.
~ Albert Einstein
Dystopian novels help people process their fears about what the future might look like; further, they usually show that there is always hope, even in the bleakest future.
~ Lauren Oliver
I learned what every dreaming child needs to know, that no horizon is so far you cannot get above it or beyond it.
~ Beryl Markham
I hope I'll die on stage at the age at 105, playing Peter Pan.
~ Joan Fontaine
I hope to go into a poem sober and come out a little drunk. And if I do then that's a real poem.
~ Dannie Abse