Imagination Quotes - Page 12

We talk a lot about the five senses: vision, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. I would add one more…imagination.

I like the fact that kids are willing to be imaginative and go along with me when I'm telling strange tales.

Margaret Peterson Haddix

The thousand stars that shine in the light of day

I don't claim to know everything, Wally. I only claim that everything can eventually be known.

Too many questions can cripple imagination, for how can you apply logical questions to something that is not real?

What if I were seeking a hardcopy? A book I can bury my nose in metaphorically and literally if I'm a self-confessed book-sniffer and proud to say so.

Could crushed spirit be destroyed if it encountered too much spirit?

Perhaps this new kind of reading will appeal to us after we give it a try.

The sisterhood of librarians is a non-profit organisation and our goal is to keep imagination alive, not make money.

Band together with the brothers and sisters of misery and never stray. You are the integral part of the deeply depressed. We found you. Hooray.

Tales of triumph are my favourite.

One shot is all anyone needs if they back themselves and do it right.

Emily wondered whether Artie would be so carefree if he knew The Book Club was performing grand theft imagination.

Someone who was just nice didn't remain on your mind an hour after they'd left.

Writers are magicians. They write down words, and, if they're good, you believe that what they write is real, just as you believe a good magician has pulled the coins out of your ear, or made his assistant disappear.

It means they engineered the spirit to have a negative effect on the imagination.

If you ever expect to write fairytales, you've got to get your head in the clouds.

Richelle E. Goodrich

I KNEW I MUST do all as I was told, yet something burned inside me, a seed of defiance that must have derived from a long-ago ancestor. Perhaps my mind was inflamed from the books I had read and the worlds I had imagined.

You may not have finished today but the work you did got you closer than if you would have done nothing.

Don't dare try to be heroes.

Then an argument would ensue because they were men with different ideas.

New exit, new entry!

Lailah Gifty Akita

I wonder if life is a fairy tale!

Lailah Gifty Akita

Imagination is the first step of creation

Farid F. Ibrahim

Without imagination, things were only as they appeared - and that was blindness. Things were more than they appeared, so much more. When he considered an oak tree, it was not just a tree. To someone small, like an ant, it was a whole landscape of rugged barky cliffs and big green leaf-plains that quaked when the sky was restless, a place of many strange creatures where fearsome winged beasts could pluck and devour someone in a blink.

Jonathan Renshaw

Imagination is a pleasant phenomenon.

Lailah Gifty Akita

If you do not write the thoughts of the moments, it is lost forever.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Dwell on the beautiful miracles of life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

But Charlie could imagine, because he was a Beta Male, and imagination was his curse....

Christopher Moore

It was nice meeting you three, and I'm sure under different circumstances it would have been a pleasure.

You've got to try and not let it keep you down. Sure, let it hurt but don't let it harm you.

Blessed with the Beta Male imagination, he spent much of his life squinting into the future so he might spot ways in which the world was conspiring to kill him...

Christopher Moore

If there weren’t so many interesting conversations taking place inside my head, I might venture to speak out loud.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Sometimes imaginary troubles are harder to bear than actual ones.

Michelle Cuevas

Words are life. We are our words. Choose your words carefully.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The power of writing is phenomenal.

Lailah Gifty Akita

You can't fly by staring at the sky. You have to take a risk to grow wings of imagination and fly.

Debasish Mridha

Having a large world of his own in his own head and heart, he tolerated confinement to a small, still corner of the real world very patiently.

Charlotte Brontë

Sometimes we don't want to be tethered to yesterday. It's nicer to forget. Maybe the gaps in our memory are there for a reason, evolutionary perhaps, to give us the space to grow, to get away from childishness or childish things. Or maybe it's so we have the chance to invent, or at least include, some magic in our yesterdays, surely the consolation of getting older, of moving away from youth, is that we can shape our past to our fantasies. So, even if the present isn't going the way we want it, we can stand and remember our earlier selves as exciting and funny and daring

They worried that fantasies were somehow inoculating me against more practical realities.

Even then, I was dreaming of Raistlin's black robes one moment, and Dorsett's spin move the next. This was what my father deeded--that our Knowledge of Self be more than America, that we understand the brain death that sprawled from the projects to the subdivisions. Consciousness was a beginning, but the imagination could turn straight 18s into paladins in plate, could make warrens in tunnels from graph paper, could pull armies of gnolls from miniatures--that was the Knowledge that ultimately would find a way out.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Imagination is tapping into the subconscious in a form of open play. That is why art or music therapy, which encourages a person to take up brushes and paint or an instrument, and just express themselves, is so powerful.

Phil 'Philosofree' Cheney

But they never again passed up the opportunity to read a good book, together.

Some days I spent up to three hours in the arcade after school, dimly aware that we were the first people, ever, to be doing these things. We were feeling something they never had - a physical link into the world of the fictional - through the skeletal muscles of the arm to the joystick to the tiny person on the screen, a person in an imagined world. It was crude but real. We'd fashioned an outpost in the hostile, inaccessible world of the imagination, like dangling a bathysphere into the crushing dark of the deep ocean, a realm hitherto inaccessible to humankind. This is what games had become. Computers had their origin in military cryptography - in a sense, every computer game represents the commandeering of a military code-breaking apparatus for purposes of human expression. We'd done that, taken that idea and turned it into a thing its creators never imagined, our own incandescent mythology.

Austin Grossman

I existed in a cocoon, wrapped in daydreams. It's dangerous to be too much alone with an imagination.

He imagines the water running in thick curving lines, like the drawings of the tree’s roots, cutting through stone and spilling over the earth. And then he reverses the flow of water, letting his imagination take over, and he sees the water racing north, uphill, towards the Catskills, weaving around towns, beneath bridges, rushing over stones and cutting through the trees, until it lands at the feet of Alice Pearson, who stands on the shore, looking out at the place where the water meets the sky.

Beth Hahn

Imagination may be the most essential, uniquely human capacity - creating both the dead-end crises of our time and the doorway through them.

We go round and round trying to convince one another that our opinion makes more sense. And the only winner is time for making us look like fools by wasting it.

If that's the example you want set, you be the example.

I tried to kill myself when I was thirteen but failed. That was the greatest failure of my life.

As much as I respect him, he is somewhat of an ignorant fool.

Young lovers. If you get it right, it's amazing what you can share. The challenging part is maintaining it.

What the future held for spirit, Emily could only imagine.

No one knows if something works until it actually works. That's why you must always try.

Fear doesn't gain respect. It just makes people do what you want to shut you up and get you away from them.

Maybe I am just an old fool with foolish thoughts, but those foolish thoughts allow this old fool to sleep quite comfortably at night.

What could a person like Emily do? Could she possibly satisfy both sides? Or would that only end badly?

Embrace what works and discard what doesn't.

All the birds who were never born, all the songs that were never sung and so can only exist in the imagination.And this one is Teddy's.

She has no memories of her mother but imagines her as white, a soundless brilliance. Her father radiates a thousand colors, opal, strawberry red, deep russet, wild green; a smell like oil and metal, the feel of a lock tumbler sliding home, the sound of his key rings chiming as he walks.

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