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Quotes About Imagination

Anything can be real. Every imaginable thing is happening somewhere along the dimensional axis. These things happen a billion times over with exactly the same outcome and no one learns anything. Whatever a person can think, imagine, wish for, or believe has already come to pass. Dreams come true all the time, just not for the dreamers.
~ Eoin Colfer
Victor Vigny: A monkey glances up and sees a banana, and that's as far as he looks. A visionary looks up and sees the moon. Conor Broekhart: Which resembles a giant banana.
~ Eoin Colfer
I waved my hand in front of my face, obi-wan style. I am not here. Niall's mucas glands kicked into overdrive. Eoin's dead! And his ghost is standing right there on the grass! Donal let out a long suffering sigh. Eoin is being a writer. Niall calmed down, becuase everyone knows writers are weird and are always doing stupid thingss.
~ Eoin Colfer
The ripple effects of young Opal's murder in the corner of a field were more widespread than even Artemis could have imagined, though in truth imagine is the wrong verb, as Artemis Fowl was not in the habit of imagining anything. Even as a small boy, he had never nurtured daydreams of himself on horseback fighting dragons. What Artemis preferred to do was visualize an achievable objective and then work toward that goal.
~ Eoin Colfer
Artemis remembered a few lines from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: "But I don't want to go among mad people," said Alice. "Oh, you can't help that," said the cat. "We're all mad here.
~ Eoin Colfer
I am exactly the right age for this project," said Minerva. "I'm young enough to believe in magic and old enough to understand how it works.
~ Eoin Colfer
which was a bit like a mouse chasing a cat, a giant mutant cat with laser eyes and a bellyful of smaller spiteful cats.
~ Eoin Colfer
Foaly is singing," said Holly. "Surely that's illegal?
~ Eoin Colfer
Someone old enough to grasp the principles of commerce, yet young enough to believe in magic
~ Eoin Colfer
world was dripping down his eyeballs like wet oil paint down a canvas.
~ Eoin Colfer
Ik was vroeger altijd zo dol op Pip en Kip. - Foaly
~ Eoin Colfer
Other men look up and down, left and right," he said. "But men like us are different. We are visionaries.
~ Eoin Colfer
More to follow.
~ Eoin Colfer
ISBN 978-1-4231-3219-6
~ Eoin Colfer
He had also written a computer
~ Eoin Colfer
knit a sweater of ants
~ Eoin Colfer
Beckett placed the spectacles on his face. "Look at me," he said. "I'm Myles Fowl. The vortex of the quadrangle is deteriorating my underpants." And he was gone, back-flipping to earth and scampering across the garden like a boy who had been raised by beasts.
~ Eoin Colfer
The old-fashioned way," repeated Mulch. "With a futuristic pressure suit and a fairy phone.
~ Eoin Colfer
Wowbagger could not hold her eyes. "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
~ Eoin Colfer
What are you? Who are you? I thought you shared Artemis's memories. How can you be so stupid? Orion was unperturbed. I share everything. Memories and movies are as real as each other to me. You, Peter Pan, the Loch Ness Monster, me. It's all real, maybe.
~ Eoin Colfer
I have created a brand-new conundrum, he thought and the idea pleased him greatly.
~ Eoin Colfer
It is like the old fairy tale. The boy saves the princess; they fall in love. He invents a flying machine—along with his dashing teacher, of course. They get married and name their firstborn after the aforementioned dashing teacher." Conor frowned. "I don't recall that fairy tale from the nursery." "Trust me, it's a classic.
~ Eoin Colfer
It tickled Vern some to imagine the worldwide shit storm that would follow an event like that. The humans would straight-up crap themselves. Washington would be terrified of an impending dragon takeover. No stone would be left unturned, that was for sure.
~ Eoin Colfer
Mulch on the other hand couldn't have found his childhood with an encyclopedia.
~ Eoin Colfer