Quotes About Imagination

Small boys often produce their own plays; but usually the parts are not written out. They hardly need to be, for the main line of each character is always "Stick 'em up!" In these plays the curtain is always rung down on a set of corpses, for small boys are by nature through and uncompromising.

I set an essay . . . 'Give a snail's description from the front door to the school gate.

Her soul belongs ?to words and? books. Every time she ?reads she ?is home

Do they really help? It's just a few pictures in an album in your head, after all. In between those scenes you do remember there are hundreds, thousands, of scenes you've forgotten. So are you remembering the truth?

Don't they say that all the people in your dreams are really yourself?

When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.

C'est toujours l'imagination qui l'emporte sur la volonté, sans aucune exception. - It is always the imagination that wins over the will, without exception.

Si vous vous persuadez à vous-même que vous pouvez faire une chose quelconque, pourvu qu'elle soit possible, vous la ferez, si difficile qu'elle puisse être. Si, au contraire, vous vous imaginez ne pas pouvoir faire la chose la plus simple du monde, il vous est impossible de la faire et les taupinières deviennent pour vous des montagnes infranchissables.

Influence de l'imagination sur l'être moral et l'être physique de l'homme.

Quand la volonté et l'imagination sont en lutte, c'est toujours l'imagination qui l'emporte, sans aucune exception

Ainsi entendue, l'autosuggestion n'est autre chose que l'hypnotisme tel que je le comprends et que je définis par ces simples mots : Influence de l'imagination sur l'être moral et l'être physique de l'homme. - Understood thus, autosuggestion is nothing other than hypnotism as I understand it and which I define by these simple words: Influence of the imagination on the moral being and the physical being of man.

From top to bottom of the ladder, greed is aroused without knowing where to find ultimate foothold. Nothing can calm it, since its goal is far beyond all it can attain. Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.

A work of art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.

Quello che mi interessa sapere è se scrive delle cose vere o delle cose inventate. Le rispondo che cerco di scrivere delle storie vere, ma, a un certo punto, la storia diventa insopportabile proprio per la sua verità e allora sono costretto a cambiarla. Le dico che cerco di raccontare la mia storia, ma che non ci riesco, non ne ho il coraggio, mi fa troppo male. Allora abbellisco tutto e descrivo le cose non come sono accadute, ma come avrei voluto che accadessero.

Pero yo creo que puedo escribir lo que me dé la gana, aunque sea imposible, aunque no sea verdad.

So they went off together. But wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the Forest a little boy and his Bear will always be playing.

The chief difference between horror fans and science fiction fans lies in why they won't walk backwards. A horror fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll be knifed by a madman. A science fiction fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll step on the cat.

Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness—I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.

If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.

About what you'd expect, was Gideon's grumpy and uncharitable thought, if you crossed John Gielgud with W. C. Fields.

Put aside a few minutes today to imagine and play. -Aaron Jhinkoo

Unleash Your Creativity. -Aaron Jhinkoo

God knows what happens in anime club

The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.