Quotes About Imagination

In America everything is fantastical.

Un día, los hombres descubrirán un alfabeto en los ojos de las calcedonias, en los pardos terciopelos de la falena, y entonces se sabrá con asombro que cada caracol manchado era, desde siempre, un poema.

A day will come when men will discover an alphabet in the eyes of chalcedonies, in the markings of the moth, and will learn in astonishment that every spotted snail has always been a poem.

El mito es reflejo de la realidad".

Listening to Ella furiously and endlessly unfurl the yarns of the Mingus tales, I understood that the need to tell stories is deeply embedded in our minds, and inseparably entangled with the mechanisms that generate and absorb language. Narrative imagination--and therefore fiction--is a basic evolutionary tool of survival. We process the world by telling stories and produce human knowledge through our engagement with imagined selves.

Don't you wonder sometimes," sang Bowie all the way to Kinshasa, "about sound and vision?

You have to create a form from the life that exists, not the other way around. If it comes out in these little pieces, that's what it is.

Citeam toat? noaptea, toat? ziua, în loc s?-mi fac temele; la È™coal? citeam pe sub banc?[...]. M? simÈ›eam confortabil È™i sigur doar in spaÈ›iul imaginar al literarurii: f?r? un tat? absent, f?r? o mama deprimat?, f?r? b?t?uÈ™ii care m? puneau s? ling paginile c?rÈ›ii pân? când limba mi se înnegrea de la cerneal?.

Eso de estar siempre conjeturando cómo será el futuro es una deficiencia humana, y de esa deficiencia surgió el cine.

When the mind imagines its own lack of power, it is saddened by it.

Men confide, lust rhetorically, copulate hypothetically with women of unacknowledged fantasy.

Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.

I would really like, in fact, to be born again in another two hundred years' time.

Quante volte avrebbe desiderato di vederla dinanzi viva e reale, piuttosto che averla sempre fissa nel pensiero, piuttosto che dover trovarsi, giorno e notte, in compagnia di quella gorma vana, terribile, impassibile!

Ora sapete come è l'aspettativa: immaginosa, credula, sicura.

Addio, casa ancora straniera, nella quale la mente si figurava un soggiorno tranquillo e perpetuo di sposa.

Tra il primo pensiero d'una impresa terribile, e l'esecuzione di essa, (ha detto un barbaro che non era privo d'ingegno) 277 l'intervallo è un sogno, pieno di fantasmi e di paure.

Forse voi vorreste un Bortolo più ideale: non so che dire: fabbricatevelo. Quello era così.

I love costumes. I love getting dressed up because it really helps my imagination make the leap to believe that I am who I say I am.

If you did not indulge in fantasies, how else would you know if you were living an interesting life?

Quit dwelling on other people's stories and make up some of your own.

Everything in the world was about creativity: belief and creation. Storytelling was the essence of both.

Mama says I spend too much time in little fantasy worlds and not enough in this one.

some things were just meant to be good stories