Quotes About Imagination

28 It is as if he had begun to suspect—to feel, to sense, to imagine—that there was a realm beyond nature, a living reality that nature only symbolized.

I can't compete with the woman in your head, Cam. I don't even know if she's real.

You can cover a great deal of country in books.

One gift the fairies gave me ... the love of books, the magic key that opens the enchanted door.

Again, if there are really no fairies, why do people believe in them, all over the world? The ancient Greeks believed, so did the old Egyptians, and the Hindoos, and the Red Indians, and is it likely, if there are no fairies, that so many different peoples would have seen and heard them?

So labour at your Alphabet, For by that learning shall you get To lands where Fairies may be met.

If there are frightful monsters in fairy tales, they do not frighten you now, because that kind of monster is no longer going about the world, whatever he may have done long, long ago. He has been turned into stone, and you may see his remains in museums.

But the three hundred and sixty-five authors who try to write new fairy tales are very tiresome. They always begin with a little boy or girl who goes out and meets the fairies of polyanthuses and gardenias and apple blossoms: 'Flowers and fruits, and other winged things.' These fairies try to be funny, and fail; or they try to preach, and succeed.

Open up your mind, let your fantasies unwind.

The method of science is logical and rational; the method of the humanities is one of imagination, sympathetic understanding, 'indwelling.

Emily Dickinson, the poet, said a beautiful thing. "I dwell in possibility".

Richard Hawley's 'Tonight The Streets Are Ours'. He dusted and polished to The KLF; hoovered to Robyn and Bat For Lashes.

A man washing up secretly imagines himself to be the head surgeon in an operating theater. He is entitled to bark out peremptory orders: 'Right! I'm ready for the pudding things now!

the dreamy endlessness of the afternoons spent deep in her own mind.

He hangs in shades the orange bright,Like golden lamps in a green night.

I'm not a spy. I'm not a cop. All I know is from watching movies and I'm pretty sure if my life depends on doing parkour across rooftops,

We did those things when we were acting of fear from the cold war. After 9/11 we learned a new kind of fear. A whole generation of brilliant minds started imagining all of the scary things that bad people could do to using genetic engineering, computer viruses, nanotechnology and a thousand other technologies.' 'Once you start thinking

Andrew Mayne

A creative mind is always on (unless it's not).

if there were no stupidity in the world, we'd all be riding around in flying cars and colonizing Proxima Centauri

I look up to the sky as if I'm expecting Morgan Freeman to look down at me and wink, giving me his approval.

the only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible. arthur c. clark

asked us to imagine a toolbox and inside it pairs of glasses that affect what you see and what you think. With each one comes a certain knowledge set.

What I mean is that if I'm making up something in my head using places and situations I already know, then it goes smoothly.