Quotes About Imagination

Write the book you want to read

A cliche is everything you've ever heard of.

There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.

Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.

Poultry is for the cook what canvas is for a painter, or the cap of Fortunatus for a conjurer.

Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better.

Among creatures born into chaos, a majority will imagine an order, a minority will question the order, and the rest will be pronounced insane.

In the realist, you have the sorry sight of the five senses deprived of their imagination.

If you are a dreamer come in

We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort.

I admit to having an imagination feverish enough to melt good judgment.

Kid, you'll move mountains.

Many live in the ivory tower called reality; they never venture on the open sea of thought.

We are all of us imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire.

The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.

Play is the exultation of the possible.

I dream of eagles and bring forth sparrows.

Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.

A daydreamer is prepared for most things.

What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?

If you treat your characters like people, they'll reward you by being fully developed individuals.

Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head?

I've always dreamed of growing up to be Amy Poehler.

We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.