Quotes About Imagination

You do not come to the thee-ator and it will wither your soul. (Madam Leadora Seamstress for the Royal Magnificent Theater)

I'm convinced that each human being more or less builds his own reality. You are what you believe you are. We make images in our minds of what will be---based on what we believe or want, what we're afraid of---

You are what you believe you are.We make images in our minds of what will be based on what we believe or want, what we're afraid of. Dr. Woodhouse to Caulder and Ginny

The brain could go just about anywhere with anything.

Books are the mile markers of my life. Some people have family photos or home movies to record their past. I've got books. Characters. For as long as I can remember, books have been my safe place.

I often imagine myself engaged in a slew of activities to transform their destiny; a genie fighting against evil. Wishful thinking perhaps, but the tedium and tension involved in the very process pushes aside such cogitations and I return to a self-centred life of good meals and an air-conditioned room.

Et maleri er et dikt uten ord

È molto bello qui" commenta infine togliendosi la pipa di bocca; e poi, indicando i costoni calcarei dell'Untersberg, "Lo vedi quel bosco?" Una pausa. "Da noi sono più grandi, molto più grandi, non finiscono mai. Quando riuscirai a immaginarli, vuol dire che sei già là , in Canada, nelle Rocky Mountains.

Each novel is a message in a bottle cast into the great ocean of literature from somewhere else.

If everyone else is thinking right and left, you fucking well better be thinking up and down.

I can touch you with a thought.

J'ai médité la mort. Je me suis imaginé n'existant pas, gardant le regret de n'exister pas, emportant dans mon cercueil le souvenir de la vie, comme une bague reste au doigt d'un cadavre.

Stunt dwarf or destroy the imagination of a child and you have taken away its chances of success in life. Imagination transforms the commonplace into the great and creates the new out of the old.

In the civilized countries I believe there are no witches left, nor wizards, nor sorceresses, nor magicians ~ The Witch of the North

No, indeed. I don't know anything. You see, I am stuffed, so I have no brains at all," he answered sadly.

Then, to their surprise, they found before them a high wall which seemed to be made of white china. It was smooth, like the surface of a dish, and higher than their heads.

Tarts and tadpoles!...The boy is still alive!

Having this thought in mind, the story of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was written solely to please children of today. It aspires to being a modernized fairy tale, in which the wonderment and joy are retained and the heartaches and nightmares are left out. L. Frank Baum

All the magic isn't in fairyland, he said gravely. There's lots of magic in all Nature, and you may see it as well in the United States, where you and I once lived, as you can here.

Where is the Emerald City? he inquired. And who is Oz? Why, don't you know? she returned, in surprise. No, indeed. I don't know anything. You see, I am stuffed, so I have no brains at all, he answered sadly.

you do not I will make an end of you, as I did of the Tin Woodman and the Scarecrow. Dorothy followed her through many of the beautiful rooms in her castle

Are you so very hungry? asked Dorothy, in wonder. You can hardly imagine the size of my appetite, replied the Tiger, sadly. It seems to fill my whole body, from the end of my throat to the tip of my tail. I am very sure the appetite doesn't fit me, and is too large for the size of my body. Some day, when I meet a dentist with a pair of forceps, I'm going to have it pulled. What, your tooth? asked Dorothy. No, my appetite, said the Hungry Tiger.

fairies of Grimm and Andersen have brought more happiness to childish hearts than all other human creations. Yet

he painted my right eye, and as soon as it was finished I found myself looking at him and at everything around me with a great deal of curiosity, for this was my first glimpse of the world.