Quotes About Imagination

Writing is hard work, and if anything's true about the process, it's that fact that a good story is hard to find and even trickier to get on paper. What's less romantic than staring alone at a blank screen? And edgy? I've changed the cat little because I didn't know what my characters were going to say next.

Books are truer than movies.

In our dreams we can have our eggs cooked exactly how we want them, but we can't eat them.

Unkindness involves a failure of the imagination so acute that it threatens not just our happiness but our sanity. Caring

Ä°nsanlar bizi hüsrana uÄŸratarak gerçeklik duygusu kazan?r; hüsran duygusu yaratmad?klar? müddetçe fantezi figürleri olarak kal?rlar.

We have the magic of art that we may not perish of the truth.

Nothing I know matters more Than what never happened. John Burnside, 'Hearsay

I've been punched by a vampire, an Indian girl, and a panda... I should be a video game.

A realist writer might break his protagonist's leg, or kill his fiancee; but a science fiction writer will immolate whole planets, and whilst doing so he will be more concerned with the placement of commas than the screams of the dying.

Let us say that science fiction is a kind of conceptual disorientation of the familiar.

A realist writer might break his protagonist's leg, or kill his fianc'e; but a science fiction writer will immolate whole planets, and whilst doing so he will be more concerned with the placement of commas than with the screams of the dying.

But why did such an imaginative group of people declare independence from one of the greatest empires on earth and establish a truly novel polity but not get rid of an institution that most of them thought was immoral and dangerous?

Imagine if we could access 100 percent" is a surfeit-of-gravitas line spoken by a typically august Morgan Freeman in the 2014 film. Scarlett Johansson is the titular protagonist who pharmacologically gains access to the other 90 percent, and acquires telepathy, telekinesis, the ability to somehow encounter her Australopithecine namesake, and even witness the Big Bang. It's dumb-as-bricks scientifically illiterate hooey, and highly recommended for that precise reason.

By 40,000 years ago, there are clear, unequivocal depictions of figurative art in multiple forms, and clear evidence for imagination, abstract thought, music and profound fine motor skills. Something had changed.

It's sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity. It's about mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and creative way.

When I finally got up to Industrial Light And Magic to work on the 'Star Wars' movies as a model-maker, it felt like dying and going to heaven.

The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination.

Though our brother is upon the rack, as long as we ourselves are at ease, our senses will never inform us of what he suffers. They never did and never can carry us beyond our own persons, and it is by the imagination only that we form any conception of what are his sensations...His agonies, when they are thus brought home to ourselves, when we have this adopted and made them our own, begin at last to affect us, and we then tremble and shudder at the thought of what he feels.

Reality is a lovely place, but I wouldn't want to live there.

When I was a small boy, old people used to squat down to my eye level and ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up, to which my answer was invariably, "a pirate." Their stunned silence was always very reassuring.

Reality is a lovely place, but I wouldn't wanna live there.

Sailboats with they were stars, floating softly through the sky, among our dreams that pay goodbye.

You can't measure dreams when you're a dreamer, because most often the caliber is unattainable.

In Wirklichkeit war ich schon wach, aber ich hielt noch die Augen zu, um die Traaumgestalten noch länger vor meiner Seele zu behalten.