Imagination Quotes - Page 11

The old author knew all too well that the imagination was a top cause for missing good meals.

But, you must remember, whatever you eat, make sure you have at least one bowl of salad with it.

A woman can never be late when she is meeting with a man. But a man can most certainly be late when he is meeting with a woman.

Her intention was to make the crowd aware, if they weren't already, that John was the giant whose shoulders Emily stood on.

Thoughts. Your imagination. The voices inside your head. They're all the same thing and spirit is what fuels it.

This is a strange situation, sir. Perhaps imagination is what we need.

With my sometimes blunt indecent vocabulary & very vivid imagination, I wonder if I should be writing "other" kinds of content.

April Mae Monterrosa

When you juice books from a library you are taking the history and imagination that has accumulated over so many years there.

It's in my head now. It's a memory. No camera could have captured what I saw and felt.

If someone knew equally as much about the ins and outs of your home, it would not be your home.

If you work hard all day and all night, something may come of it. You never know, it just might.

He could tell her that dogs used to look like cats and vice versa without a lick of proof and it would change the way she regarded the animals.

You've got to have high expectations to achieve top results.

It is that kind of thinking that is the problem; that movies, video games and the Internet, devices that simply amuse the imagination are more interesting than what a library stocks.

Isn't it true that a well-read book seems more alive to you, Ms Rainn?

I don't say Valancy deliberately murdered these lovers as she outgrew them. One simply faded away as another came. Things are very convenient in this respect in Blue Castles.

L.M. Montgomery

Dreams are the flowers of imagination which bloom on the fertile grounds of the mind.

Debasish Mridha

Close your eyes and open your mind. You will now see the beauty with your imagination.

Debasish Mridha

The magic of reading happens when an author’s written work strings you along until your imagination, aware of your wants, molds the tale into an extraordinary world to be visited frequently—perhaps dwelt in for years.

Richelle E. Goodrich

If you don't dream, then you don't really sleep.

Joshua Suya Pelicano

You need two things to write a great book: imagination and inclination. Without one, your book will be boring; without the other, your book won't get finished at all.

Ellie Firestone

And I thought Ereaders could not become any more dreadful.

Never ask about the details of someone's personal life, only the quality. Because if they want you to know, they'll let you know. If they don't want you to know, there is no need to know.

All writers read, Ms Rainn. With dwindling amounts of books circulating imagination, the less writers of all mediums will be able to exercise their own imaginations.

You can't lose sleep over should-of's and could-of's.

…Marco’s answers and objections took their place in a discourse already proceeding on its own, in the Great Khan’s head. That is to say, between the two of them it did not matter whether questions and solutions were uttered aloud or whether each of the two went on pondering in silence. In fact, they were silent, their eyes half-closed, reclining on cushions, swaying in hammocks, smoking long amber pipes.Marco Polo imagined answering (or Kublai Khan imagined his answer) that the more one was lost in unfamiliar quarters of distant cities, the more one understood the other cities he had crossed to arrive there…

You must learn not to rely so heavily on others. Only then will help come when you truly need it.

This didn't sound good. It sounded like the optimism was escaping from him.

No one is better than anyone else. Some just simply don't fulfil their potential of being the best they possibly can.

A cup of tea at the ready and a jug of water will suffice just fine.

They're a group called The Spirit-crushers and their leader is known as The Almighty Spirit-crusher.

Ms Rainn, you might say, is a writing prodigy and I'm her mentor.

The memory will most likely come to me when I least expect it. When I'm in the middle of something else.

We each have a little imagination in all of us, and a book is the best absorbent there is.

The purpose of the Sisterhood of Librarians is to keep the secret of creative juice and keep the idea of libraries alive.

The world is small. Books make it bigger.

Jerry J.C. Veit

I have often told you that I am that little fish who swims about under a shark and, I believe, lives indelicately on its offal. Anyway, that is the way I am. Life moves over me in a vast black shadow and I swallow whatever it drops with relish, having learned in a very hard school that one cannot be both a parasite and enjoy self-nourishment without moving in worlds too fantastic for even my disordered imagination to people with meaning.

Zelda Fitzgerald

What is dollar value but something to amuse people who have no imagination? People who have money and no imagination follow fashion. People who have imagination and no money fashion styles.

Elizabeth Lowell

Isn't the smell of coffee the best alarm clock?

The power of fiction is a great thing. But, after all, reality is just a little more important.

Men cannot be nice and kind to a woman and have no affection for them.

I do not steal imagination. I use it and replace it by making people read.

We must stop this unimaginable atrocity before it becomes a reality.

There is so much we do not know about the imagination. That is why we must study it.

I believe the uncertain times are almost upon us, and they are much more uncertain than I imagined.

Manufactured spirit is much more reliable than organic spirit.

The imagination gland doesn't die. It just becomes reliant on manufactured spirit.

My pragmatic nature, my impatience, will most likely have me drunk on aged spirit by noon.

It's okay, Ms Rainn, you were simply lost in your imagination.

There were tough thoughts battling one another inside his head for the right to become reality.

Between giant spiders and meeting Edmund Ellis did I have a chance, Ms Rainn?

Through her eyes the day was new and anything was possible.

Do you know what the best and worst thing about a book is? The author can't answer all your questions, only your imagination can.

Crying will achieve nothing. Only action will.

There was a moment of silence as they imagined a future in which there existed an organisation that stole imagination for, undoubtedly, a sinister plan.

Too much thought can find fault in anything, even if there is no fault to be found.

It is important to take the seriousness out of things that do not deserve it. Take the seriousness out of it, and the thing loses its power.

How do you crush spirit? You take out all the good.

We write to embrace the sacred thoughts.

Lailah Gifty Akita

I always strive to create a setting that leaves the readers' imagination room to roam. That way, every reader sees the story through their own eyes.

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