Imagination Quotes
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"When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable."
"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination."
"You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write."
"Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one."
"If you are a dreamer come inIf you are a dreamer a wisher a liarA hoper a pray-er a magic-bean-buyerIf youre a pretender com sit by my fireFor we have some flax golden tales to spinCome in! Come in!"
"My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people."
"The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it."
"A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way."
"Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got."
"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions."
"She is free in her wildness, she is a wanderess, a drop of free water. She knows nothing of borders and cares nothing for rules or customs. 'Time' for her isn’t something to fight against. Her life flows clean, with passion, like fresh water."
"Because fear kills everything,"Mo had once told her. "Your mind, your heart, your imagination."
"The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies."
"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination."
"A fit, healthy body—that is the best fashion statement"
"V-Day…if you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for “your loved one” I think it’s quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It’s all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love."
"You must give everything to make your life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in your imagination."
"A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God."
"Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out."
"The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself."
"It’s strange how dreams get under your skin and give your heart a test for what’s real and what’s imaginary."
"The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse."
"My head’ll explode if I continue with this escapism."
"Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon."
"We lay there and looked up at the night sky and she told me about stars called blue squares and red swirls and I told her I'd never heard of them. Of course not, she said, the really important stuff they never tell you. You have to imagine it on your own."
"Poetry = Anger x Imagination"
"Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we’ll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay."
"Your fantasies define you, so dream carefully. A man with no imagination is a man with no future in today’s world—and no past in tomorrow’s."
"If you had started doing anything two weeks ago, by today you would have been two weeks better at it."
"I wear gloves, because I don’t want to tease people with my naked body. I’ve got to leave something to the imagination."
"I suppose it’s not a social norm, and not a manly thing to do — to feel, discuss feelings. So that’s what I’m giving the finger to. Social norms and stuff…what good are social norms, really? I think all they do is project a limited and harmful image of people. It thus impedes a broader social acceptance of what someone, or a group of people, might actually be like."
"I was an adventurer, but she was not an adventuress. She was a 'wanderess.' Thus, she didn’t care about money, only experiences - whether they came from wealth or from poverty, it was all the same to her."
"Who needs a large vocabulary when you can just make up any word at any time? It makes life a whole lot more emeaglibop."
"People don't read any more. It's a sad state of affairs. Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination. When you watch films it's someone else's vision, isn't it?"[Interview in The Independent, 15 October 2005]"
"A book is a device to ignite the imagination."
"Please, touch me, I pray."
"Sometimes loneliness makes the loudest noise."
"I think sometimes when we find love we pretend it away, or ignore it, or tell ourselves we’re imagining it. Because it is the most painful kind of hope there is."
"Truth is a matter of the imagination."
"The canvas isn’t empty. It’s full of whatever you imagine it to be full of. My art is so conceptual that not only do I not tell, but I don’t even show. All I do is sign the canvas and try to sell it."
"Adventure is not outside man; it is within."
"And people who don’t dream, who don’t have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must go nuts. I can’t imagine that."
"if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones."
"If we are to love our neighbors, before doing anything else we must see our neighbors. With our imagination as well as our eyes, that is to say like artists, we must see not just their faces but the life behind and within their faces. Here it is love that is the frame we see them in."
"Those who make us believe that anything’s possible and fire our imagination over the long haul, are often the ones who have survived the bleakest of circumstances. The men and women who have every reason to despair, but don’t, may have the most to teach us, not only about how to hold true to our beliefs, but about how such a life can bring about seemingly impossible social change."
"As cities grow and technology takes over the world belief and imagination fade away and so do we."
"I don’t know what’s in the box, but I love it. Unopened gifts contain hope."
"The only problem with dreaming is it's a solo activity. Imagine how glorious life would be if we could share dreams and create in unison."
"A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination."
"Those who fear the imagination condemn it: something childish, they say, something monsterish, misbegotten. Not all of us dream awake. But those of us who do have no choice."
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