Quotes About Imagination

Call them from their houses, and teach them to dream.

Her mind is a pink mesh-bag filled with baby toes.

I don't believe that dreams tell what is to come, I think they are the things that are going on in our subconscious swimming to the surface while we are asleep.)

You could never be sure, at any given moment, whether she was inhabiting her own private fantasy land—which she seemed to do most of the time—or whether she was on one of her flying visits to what passed for reality.

Don't you ever read any of the books about women who enjoyed it?' he said. 'Enjoyed being raped?' 'Enjoyed the company of men.' 'Oh! Well, some of them say they did.' 'So why would they say it if it wasn't true?' For a moment that stumped her. 'I just can't imagine it,' she said, 'that's all.

Jerusha leaned forward watching with curiosity - and a touch of wistfulness - the stream of carriages and automobiles that rolled out of the asylum gates. In imagination she followed first one equipage, then another, to the big houses dotted along the hillside. She pictured herself in a fur coat and a velvet hat trimmed with feathers leaning back in the seat and nonchalantly murmuring "Home" to the driver. But on the door-sill of her home the picture grew blurred.

I think that the most necessary quality for any person to have is imagination.

Kualitas paling penting yang perlu dimiliki oleh seseorang adalah imajinasi. Imajinasi membuat orang mampu menempatkan diri mereka di tempat orang lain. Imajinasi membuat mereka menjadi orang yang baik dan bisa bersimpati serta penuh pengertian.

You know, Daddy, I think that the most necessary quality for any person to have imagination. It makes people able to put themselves in other people's places. It make them kind and sympathetic and understanding. It ought to be cultivated in children.

the most necessary quality for any person to have is imagination. It makes people able to put themselves in other people's places. It makes them kind and sympathetic and understanding.

Me gustaría ver el mundo entero, y algún día lo conseguiré... cuando sea una gran autora, pintora, actriz o cualquier otra cosa grande que llegue a ser. La vida errante me atrae mucho.

It's much more entertaining to live books than to write them.

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.

plus cher et le plus inaccessible reste celui d'écrire ce qu'on appelle avec dédain un roman de gare, celui qu'on ouvre à Austerlitz et qu'on laisse sur la banquette à Angoulême, en ayant juste sauté quelques pages de description (ça

me voici dans l'île – pour ressentir le besoin d'une écriture plus vagabonde qui, à l'extrême, n'a d'autre objet qu'elle-même : ce qu'on nomme littérature.

Nous sommes humains parce que nous avons accès à ce qui n'existe pas. Cette richesse n'est pas donnée à tous, mais ceux qui cheminent jusqu'à ce continent invisible en reviennent chargés de trésors qu'ils font partager à tous les autres.

They were working hard at their own myth.

Se le vie marittime non si lasciano circoscrivere facilmente forse è perché sono intrecciate di racconti e le leggende: le carte su cui sono state segnate sono forse immaginarie, gli scritti che le accompagnano inventati

comme beaucoup de Marseillais, les récits de voyages me comblaient plus que les voyages eaux-mêmes / come molti marsigliesi, i racconti di viaggi mi incantavano più dei viaggi stessi.

Cada noche se decía: "Debe ser menos hermosa de lo que creo, es mi imaginación que se desboca", y cada noche se desmentía y la encontraba más bonita que el día anterior.

My diving bell becomes less oppressive, and my mind takes flight like a butterfly. There is so much to do. You can wander off in space or in time, set out for Tierra del Fuego or for King Midas's court. You can visit the woman you love, slide down beside her and stroke her still-sleeping face.

My diving bell becomes less oppressive, and my mind takes flight like a butterfly. There is so much to do. You can wander off in space or in time, set out for Tierra del Fuego or for King Midas's court.

I could spend whole days at Cinecittà. There, I am the greatest director of all time. On the town side, I reshoot the close-ups for Touch of Evil. Down at the beach, I rework the dolly shots for Stagecoach, and offshore I re-create the storm rocking the smugglers of Moonfleet.

Ever since then, whenever I go through the main hall, I detect a hint of amusement in the empress's smile.