Quotes About Imagination

I would have sworn fairies were too big to fit into a frog's mouth.

The zeal of the stupid in her, Chris began turning pages as if it were the winter solstice gift catalog, earmarking pages and cooing in delight at the new possibilities.

The energy tasted like books, and I imagined we were still in the semipublic areas.

Ideology, n. An imaginary relationship to a real situation.

No one cares about books, that's why you can write anything you want in them.

All the great moments of history have taken place inside people's heads.

The one who tells the stories rules the world.

We have to start doing this in ignorance of the details of how to do it. We have to learn how to do it in the attempt itself. It is something we are going to have to imagine.

Beauty was the promise of happiness, not happiness itself; and the anticipated world was often more rich than anything real.

It was so hard to imagine that a mind could be gone. All those thoughts that you never tell anyone, all those dreams, all that entire pocket universe: gone. A character unlike any other character, a consciousness. It didn't seem possible.

Oceans of clouds in my chest.

Strange how one remembered faces until you tried to look at them in your mind, when they turned away from you.

Kim Stanley Robinson

He came to realize that no one was watching him, no one was listening. The tiny imaginary audience inside his head did not exist; no one watches our life movies.

Now he stood in the farthest end of the cave, in front of the great lion chase he had watched Thorn paint so long ago. He saw again: it was by far the greatest painting in the the cave, maybe the world. Maybe it would always be the greatest painting.

It's too bad we only had the courage to live our lives fully in dreams.

There is a real situation, that can't be denied, but it is too big for any individual to know in full, and so we must create our understanding by way of an act of the imagination.

Why have a word for something they'd never seen?

Kim Stanley Robinson

Sure, we could have big trucks too. We could have a monster truck pull right on the White House lawn." "Monster truck." Joe smiled at the phrase.

A map is the representation of a landscape, after all, and many landscapes, like Orange County's, are principally psychic.

Very little of the high Sierra makes it into its images. If you see a pretty photo from the Sierras, you always have to remember, it was a zillion times more beautiful than that!

A blank red slate. Anything was possible, anything could happen

Well," Amelia said, "basically my polar bears have taken over my airship.