Quotes About Imagination

'American Horror' is the debasement of the suburban family, the way a lonely kid would have imagined it in the Seventies.

In my headphones, I led a life of romance and incident and intrigue, none of which had anything to do with the world outside my Walkman.

He sang about girls in space-why not? That's where all the cool girls were. (They weren't where I could find them, that was for sure.)

She would wake up in the middle of the night and say things like "What if Bad Bad Leroy Brown was a girl?" or "Why don't they have commercials for salt like they do for milk?

When you stick a song on a tape, you set it free.

Most kids don't believe in fairy tales very long. Once they hit six or seven they put away "Cinderella" and her shoe fetish, "The Three Little Pigs" with their violation of building codes, "Miss Muffet" and her well?shaped tuffet—all forgotten or discounted.And maybe that's the way it has to be. To survive in the world, you have to give up the fantasies, the make?believe.

I could kill you with the ink pen by the cash register, a dirty glass, or a used napkin folded in the shape of a motherfucking swan. And don't think I wouldn't have enough time to do some origami, shove it down your goddamn throat and watch you choke on it before you could move.

I mean, the most important thing to me is imagination.

the landscape retains its grip on the collective imagination, offering the promise of tranquillity, open space, freedom from responsibility; a rustic souvenir of permanence and stability. Britons treasure their shrinking countryside like a family heirloom wrapped in silk, locked away in the secret compartment of a writing table, protected from foreign invasion for most of a millennium.

Everything funnels into your book. It's as if you've gone mad. It's a strange absorption about this alternate world and the way it mixes with your real life… When I'm writing it's as if everything's in more vivid colors. Things are just more fraught… [Y]ou want to get back to the place where everything is significant.

Let's go over to Salvador Dali's suite at the St. Regis Hotel for a nightcap." This sounded like a surreal idea to me.

Albert said he wanted to invent a delicious sandwich glue so nothing would ever slip out.

Sometimes I feel like I'm sailing on a sunken dream

More than ever, the creation of the ridiculous is almost impossible because of the competition it receives from reality.

A "critic" is a man who creates nothing ...

I am billionaire bold bright omnipotent lively determined to go within to win opening my omnific eyes to realize wisdom innovation naturalizes… My cascading flow of financial love lavishly streams gold bars as I realize gold is intrinsic wealth as my intuitive imagination is my intrinsic innovations…

There is no need for you to formally promote certain doctrines: your very presence becomes a teaching example to others, a liberating art that opens their imagination to the potential freedom they also can experience. (p. 79)

Our minds perform magic all the time. (p. 212)

when i wake up mornings alone it is more disturbing, when i imagine it could be the living things, that are going out of my life.

Life, as we know it, could hardly continue if men did not soon slay the dreamer inside them

Thus reinforced, they spent the noonday hours spinning dreams like cobwebs, and dodging demands like nets.

Dreams, Mrs. Sawyer, are misleading, because they make life seem real. When it loses the support of dreams, life dissolves.

The logic of the language of poetry brings Amos to glimpse for a moment a new order of reality. Strictly speaking, this is not yet eschatology as it would be developed seven or eight centuries after Amos, but the imagination in prophetic poetry of restored national existence without want or pain or danger is an important way station to explicit doctrines of a radically new era that will replace earthly life as we know it.

For much of art lies in the shifting aperture between the shadowy fore-image in the anticipating mind of the observer and the realized revelatory image in the work itself, and that is what we must learn to perceive more finely in the Bible.