Quotes About Imagination

Why is it that whenever I hear music I think I'm a bride?

Guido had lived as all Jews do, who, cut off from their people by accident or choice, find that they must inhabit a world whose constituents, being alien, force the mind to succumb to an imaginary populace.

The world and its history were to Nora like a ship in a bottle; she herself was outside and unidentified, endlessly embroiled in a preoccupation without a problem.

One's life is peculiarly one's own when one has invented it.

God, children know something they can't tell; they like Red Riding Hood and the wolf in bed!

A fresh approach to a work of music (...) usually comes to those who have a fresh approach to aspects of life, to life in general.

I do write quickly, that's true, but I think about my music for a comparatively long time, and until it's complete in my head I don't begin setting it down.

Our family discussed the Revolution of 1905 constantly. I was born after that, but the stories deeply affected my imagination. When I was older, I read much about how it all had happened. It think that it was a turning point -- the people stopped believing in the tsar. The Russian people are always like that -- they believe and they believe and then suddenly it comes to an end. And the ones the people no longer believe in come to a bad end.

Veruj, istraj. Užasno je ako je ovaj svet ve?an, nikakav je naš život ako ga gledaš kakav jeste, ako pristaneš na njegovu realnost, ako ne veruješ u nemogu?e! Sanjaj, sine! Ne budi se!

When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book as well as reading it - or rather, it is like living it. It makes reading so much more exciting, but I don't suppose many people try to do it.

I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.

I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life, so I am curbing myself.

It is rather exciting to write by moonlight.

I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.

Be whatever your dreams and your luck will let you be.

Because books, my friends, are true magic bound between two covers.

help us give books to kids who need them. Who crave them. And whose lives will be forever changed by them.

wondering what sort of person would live in a place like this,

There are no limitations, unless you create them yourselves. Anything is possible. You are only limited by your own imagination.

come in a dream or a flash of insight. Frequently you have read of inventors telling that when they waked, the answer to whatever it was, was there in their brains. This

When we are dreaming alone it is only a dream. When we are dreaming with others, it is the beginning of reality.

Can you create a vacuum out of a human life? A state where everything's possible but nothing very likely? Does something new emerge when there's no more empty space?

So much of Valetto is negative space, I thought as I walked along, the conjuring of imaginary forms, but then you turn a corner and see the curled Cs of a dozen sleeping cats in the piazza, the clay-potted geraniums on the edges of stone stairs, the winter rooftop gardens, or the old man in a leather apron walking to the church every hour to ring the bronze bells, and you feel certain that this town of ten will be here forever.

If the machines can take the drudgery out of it and just leave us with the joy of drawing, then that's the best of both worlds - and I'll use those computers!