Quotes About Imagination

Why do all your brilliant ideas involve felonies?

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

since each child reads only about six hundred books in the course of childhood, each book should nourish them in some way - with new ideas, insight, humor, or vocabulary.

If you had a million Shakespeares, could they write like a monkey?

I like to go to art museums and name the untitled paintings... Boy With Pail... Kitten On Fire.

If I ever had twins, I'd use one for parts.

I was in the first submarine. Instead of a periscope, they had a kaleidoscope. "We're surrounded."

Sometimes I go into my own little world. It's okay, they know me there.

Thank heaven I don't inherit God from anybody! I am free to make mine up as I wish Him. He's kind and sympathetic and imaginative and forgiving and understanding - and He has a sense of humor.

If my kid couldn't draw I'd make sure that my kitchen magnets didn't work.

Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.

You make all the fashion statements just by dressing up your mind.

If Disney still wants to make Epcot Center futuristic, they could do so by blowing the place up with an atom bomb.

Visiting Future World is like opening a Chinese fortune cookie to read, "Soon you'll be finished with dinner."

A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample.

It's not the tales of Stephen King that I've read, I need protection from the things in my head . . .

I'm a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make them.

I should never make anything of a fisherman. I had not got sufficient imagination

I want to make a vending machine that sells vending machines. It'd have to be real big.

That would be cool if the earth's crust was made out of graham cracker. It would disappear just like the ozone layer, but for completely different reasons.

I invented the cordless extension cord.

I would like to go fishing and catch a fish stick. That would be convenient. I could easily get a job at Mrs. Paul's.

If you want a lot of visual humor, the way to do it is have visual people do it.

Sorry... my mind was wandering... one time it went all the way to Venus and ordered a meal I couldn't pay for.