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Quotes About Imagination

There will be nonsense in it!
~ Lewis Carroll
I wonder if I shall fall right through the earth! How funny it'll seem to come out among the people that walk with their heads downwards! The antipathies, I think— (she was rather glad there was no one listening, this time, as it didn't sound at all the right word) —but I shall have to ask them what the name of the country is, you know. Please, Ma'am, is this New Zealand? Or Australia?
~ Lewis Carroll
had plenty of time as she went down to look about her and to wonder what was going to happen next. First, she tried to look down and make out what she was coming to, but it was too dark to see anything; then she looked at the sides of the well, and noticed that they were filled with cupboards and book-shelves; here and there she saw maps and pictures hung upon pegs. She
~ Lewis Carroll
WITH ALICE'S LOVE).
~ Lewis Carroll
It's all his fancy, that: he hasn't got no sorrow, you know. Come on!
~ Lewis Carroll
lo mejor caigo a través de toda la tierra! ¡Qué divertido sería salir donde vive esta gente que anda cabeza abajo! Los antipáticos, creo...
~ Lewis Carroll
was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, "and what is the use of a book
~ Lewis Carroll
So I wasn't dreaming, after all," she said to herself, "unless—unless we're all part of the same dream. Only I do hope it's my dream, and not the Red King's! I don't like belonging to another person's dream," she went on in a rather complaining tone: "I've a great mind to go and wake him, and see what happens!
~ Lewis Carroll
What a curious feeling!" said Alice; "I must be shutting up like a telescope.
~ Lewis Carroll
If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't.
~ Lewis Carroll
Is it mad to pray for better hallucinations?
~ Lewis Carroll
bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, 'and what is the use of a book,' thought Alice 'without pictures or conversation?' So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her
~ Lewis Carroll
Sê o que aparentas», ou, de uma maneira mais simples: «Nunca te imagines diferente do que aparentas aos outros, porque se foste diferente, também eles te imaginariam diferente.
~ Lewis Carroll
Ever drifting down the stream ? Lingering in the golden gleam ? Life, what is it but a dream?
~ Lewis Carroll
on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, 'and what is the use of a book,' thought Alice 'without pictures or conversation?
~ Lewis Carroll
There seemed to be no use in waiting by the little door, so she went back to the table, half hoping that she might find another key on it, or at any rate a book of rules of shutting people on telescopes: this time she found a little bottle on it (which certainly was not there before, said Alice), and tied round the neck round the bottle was a paper label, with the words DRINK ME beautifully printed on it with large letters.
~ Lewis Carroll
Oh, how I wish I could shut up like a telescope! I think I could, if I only know how to begin.' For
~ Lewis Carroll
This style of literature was called Nonsense and Carroll was universally acknowledged to be its undisputed master.
~ Lewis Carroll
about her and to wonder what was going to happen next. First, she tried to look down and make out what she was coming to, but it was too dark to
~ Lewis Carroll
get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank
~ Lewis Carroll
Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.' I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
~ Lewis Carroll
As she said this, she came suddenly upon an open place, with a little house in it about four feet high. 'Whoever lives there,' thought Alice, 'it'll never do to come upon them this size: why, I should frighten them out of their wits!' So she began nibbling at the righthand bit again, did not venture to go near the house till she had brought herself down to nine inches high.
~ Lewis Carroll
Si así fue, así pudo ser; si así fuera, así podría ser; pero como no es, no es.
~ Lewis Carroll
pues a esta curiosa criatura le gustaba mucho pretender que era dos personas a la vez.
~ Lewis Carroll