Quotes About Imagination

Voordat ze in mijn boekenkasten verdwijnen leef ik tussen stapels boeken als tussen bloeiende struiken.

De steeds weer terugkerende dagdroom in mijn jeugd was, vooral op wasdag, om rijk te worden en dan voor mijn moeder een lieflijk landelijk paradijs aan te schaffen waar onder het loverzwaar geboomte op het mollige gras tientallen jonge vrouwen in luchtige zomerjurkjes met kittige schortjes om de was voor haar deden in blinkend gegalvaniseerde wasteiltjes en op bijna schertsachtige wasbordjes die de allure hadden van rococo-harpjes.

De muze moet je bed niet genaken, maar ze moet een hersenschim blijven waar je achteraan jaagt, een onbereikbare Dulcinea.

Now she sorta resembled the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man dressed in Pepto-Bismol.

The problem with society is that most people are too comfortable in their own lives to even try to imagine the difficulty of someone

Marshmallow Man dressed in Pepto-Bismol.

Much of the insensibility and hardness of the world is due to the lack of imagination which prevents a realization of the experiences of other people.

I dreamed night after night that everyone in the world was dead excepting myself, and that upon me rested the responsibility of making a wagon wheel.

Of all writers, [Jane Austen] is the most adept at creating both characters who seem to possess an independent existence and a narrator to whom readers feel able to turn, as if to an intimate friend.

Everything Jane Austen read came alive, but, at the same time, her natural empathy with those she encountered through her reading was kept in check by a keen sense of the ridiculous and of the potential absurdity of emotional display.

"Only a novel"… in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humor are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.

One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

You see, in the morning I always practice imagination for an hour or two. It does me lots of good.

With 'Bright Star' and with 'The Piano ' too, I felt a kind of sadness about it being in such a different era, because of my lack of experience with the era. And one of the ways I'd get over it is to remind myself that every film, even if it's contemporary, creates its own world.

There's no artist in this world that doesn't enjoy the dream that if they have bad reviews now, the story of Keats can redeem them, in their fantasy or imagination, in the future. I think Keats' poem 'Endymion' is a really difficult poem, and I'm not surprised that a lot of people pulled it apart in a way.

I can get very philosophical and ask the questions Keats was asking as a young guy. What are we here for? What's a soul? What's it all about? What is thinking about, imagination?

But I think it's quite clear in my work that my orientation isn't political or doesn't come out of modern politics.

I feel that directors at times are like the janitors on the set. I am the secretary, I am the organizer, I am the maid, and I ask if they have eaten or rested. The best things are always out of your control. It's those moments that surpass the imagination that are thrilling.

And, I mean, I think poetry does need to be met to some extent, especially, I guess, 19th century poetry, and for me, it's just been so worth the effort. It's like I'm planting a garden in my head.

We have seen (p. 71) that, out of the puppet or the May Queen, actually perceived year after year there arose a remembrance, a mental image, an imagined Tree Spirit, or "Summer," or Death, a thing never actually seen but conceived.

If we can't write diversity into sci-fi, then what's the point? You don't create new worlds to give them all the same limits of the old ones.

But castles in the air were founded on such hopes.

Present us with a silver cup for something when you're a filthy rich lawyer, I dare say? Yes. You'll be a lawyer. Magnificent memory. Sense of logic, no imagination and no brains.