Quotes About Imagination

Douglas E. Richards

Douglas E. Richards

Because monsters under the bed did exist, after all. Psychopaths like Sena.

Either your couch just gave birth to a litter of throw pillows, or you have a woman living here." "You

mind is pretty miraculous. Who knows, perhaps

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality and then there are those who turn one into the other.

Nothing can be truer than fairy wisdom. It is as true as sunbeams.

Some of the secret joys of living are not found by rushing from point A to point B, but by inventing some imaginary letters along the way.

I'm a pushover for blondes. And brunettes. And redheads. I've even fantasised about that bald woman in the first Star Trek movie. 'I

Read the kind of stuff you wish you could write.

You do not create ex nihilo. You rearrange and recombine. You are the same old flour and eggs in search of a new recipe.

Imagination, as Napoleon once remarked, rules the world. One of our great problems is that we have relegated imagination to various artsy ghettos, there to let it play. But imagination, including—especially including—artistic imagination, has to be understood as a practical science. It must govern everything, and if it is detached from the praxis of life and then uprooted, it goes off to the art museums to die. For

In our world,' said Eustace, 'a star is a huge ball of flaming gas.' 'Even in your world, my son, that is not what a star is but only what a star is made of.'"1 Think for a moment about what a bizarre place the universe actually is, and how we moderns have tried to use our powers of imagination to tame it, instead of using our imaginations for the purpose that God gave them to us—to enable us to see it.

The trick is to state what we know in a recognizable fashion but in a way that is slightly off, in a way that arrests us.

This is why stories like this, with great evils in them, are necessary for children to read. Kids just got here—they are still figuring things out, and stories are one of the central realities that can help them. Chesterton says somewhere that stories about dragons and knights do not teach children to fear dragons. They had dragons under the bed already. They had the fear already. The stories actually teach children that dragons can be killed. And

What happens when we grow up? (We may try to put away childish things, but we can't, or shouldn't. The best thing that can happen is that we turn those things into something bigger and more beautiful.)

You'd have to have one hell of an imagination to completely make up a story, but historians are very anal about what they think should be portrayed on screen. Thankfully they don't make movies we do.

The more you read, the more you know, the more you know, the more places you will go.

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells.

Within the heart of every boy is an adventurer.

Study the situation thoroughly, go over in your imagination the various courses of action possible to you and the consequences which can and may follow from each course. Pick out the course which gives the most promise and go ahead.

There is no such thing as a money problem. There is only a vision problem, an imagination problem, a passion problem, a plan problem, and/or a combination thereof.

When a child's mind begins to wander because of something you (the teacher) have said, wander with it. When it begins to wander because of nothing you said, kick yourself in the posterior and say something worth wandering about!

You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.