Imagination Quotes

If I were flying, I would travel to a perfect place. A place with frosted cakes and beautiful flowers and excellent trees to climb and absolutely no doldrums.

~ Kyo Maclear

I'll bet every great thinker and leader we've gotCould see all kinds of things other people could not!So then why get upset if somebody like meTries to look at the world just a bit differently?

~ Al Yankovic

Where do starfish come from?” asked Sam.“From the sky,” answered Stella. “Starfish are shooting stars that fell in love with the sea.”“Weren’t the stars afraid of drowning?” asked Sam.“No,” said Stella. “They all learned how to swim.

~ Marie-Louise Gay

What would your shoes say about the things you do everyday?

~ Sherley Mondesir-Prescott

Children are born with imaginations in mint condition, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. Then life corrects for grandiosity.

~ Phyllis Theroux

Once evil is individualized, becoming part of everyday life, the way of resisting it also becomes individual. How does the soul survive? is the essential question. And the response is: through love and imagination.

~ Azar Nafisi

It is not often that you see life and fiction take each other by the hand and dance.

~ Lawrence Thornton

I have inflammation of the imagination.

~ Lera Auerbach

When the imagination takes over, the second hand could be the hour hand to a creator of stories.

~ S.a. Tawks

The heart also knows things, and so does the imagination. Thank God. If not for heart and imagination, the world of fiction would be a pretty seedy place. It might not even exist at all.

~ Stephen King

The only thing better than a well-read book is a well-read book only read by yourself.

~ S.a. Tawks

The imagination is a wild and dangerous forest that is impossible to know the full might of.

~ S.a. Tawks

The only thing more interesting than the truth is fiction dressed up as the truth.

~ S.a. Tawks

Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you've never been. Once you've visited other worlds, like those who ate fairy fruit, you can never be entirely content with the world that you grew up in. Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different.

~ Neil Gaiman

The magic and the danger of fiction is this: it allows us to see through other eyes. It takes us to places we have never been, allows us to care about, worry about, laugh with, and cry for people who do not, outside of the story, exist. There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong.

~ Neil Gaiman

An exceptional woman with all the desired qualities exists only in a man's imagination.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Edmund doesn’t solve any of his grievances or personality disorders by going through the wardrobe. If anything, they're exacerbated and brought to a crisis by his experiences in Narnia. When you go to Narnia, your worries come with you. Narnia just becomes the place where you work them out and try to resolve them.

~ Levi Grossman

Books have a vital place in our culture. They are the source of ideas, of stories that engage and stretch the imagination and most importantly, inspire.

~ Sara Sheridan

I have a really vivid imagination and I find it difficult to read scenes of complete graphic violence. That's not to say that graphic violence does not exist. It's just that I find it quite harrowing and I much prefer if it isn't completely outlined for me because my imagination can do that.

~ Sara Sheridan

The best historical stories capture the modern imagination because they are, in many senses, still current - part of a continuum.

~ Sara Sheridan

Forcing the muse to let thoughts flow; equals to pushing a child, into labor.

~ Aniruddha Sastikar

The human condition is such that we can only stomach so much imagination. We need for things to be labeled either fiction or nonfiction. There is no section in between.

~ J.w. Lord

..home INSIDE is home shining brightly above all homes in physical world.

~ Christina Westover

Energy manipulation took place completely in mind,same way believing in telepathy caused telepathic abilities to grow STRONGER.

~ Christina Westover

Motionless we traverse countries we fancy we see, and your thought, blending with the fiction, playing with the details, follows the outline of the adventures. It mingles with the characters, and it seems as if it were yourself palpitating beneath their costumes.

~ Gustave Flaubert

Fantasy leaves imaginations larger than it finds them.

~ Brandon Mull

Reality is such a pain. Those of us who were fed up with that kind of reality decided to remake it. We’d set up a partition, separate what’s important to us from what was trash, put only the things we loved on our side, and got rid of the rest.

~ Ryohgo Narita

If reality is as equally valuable as fiction, then you should just chalk up the parts of the past you don’t need to your imagination

~ Ryohgo Narita

But to be perfectly frank, this childish idea that the author of a novel has some special insight into the characters in the novel...it's ridiculous. That novel was composed of scratches on a page, dear. The characters inhabiting it have no life outside of those scratches. What happened to them? They all ceased to exist the moment the novel ended.

~ John Green

I don’t like psychiatrists,” Alecto told her. “Not because they don’t think I’m real, but because they have no idea what they’re doing.

~ Rebecca Mcnutt

To swear day and night by media slander will make one a bigger victim than the slandered. It doesn't take much to begin to fear a mere illusion of human badness.

~ Criss Jami

The self-centered man will always expect nothing but praise. He will hope and expect all incoming criticism to be mere self-projection from the critic because when you're self-centered, self-projection is all you can imagine one can do.

~ Criss Jami

There was no need for a term like ‘magical thinking’ in the Golden Age of Man...there was only genuine everyday magic and mysticism. Children were not mocked or scolded in those days for singing to the rain or talking to the wind.

~ Anthon St. Maarten

We are powerful beyond imagination.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Your strength is beyond your own imagination.

~ Bryant Mcgill

I am an explorer,' she whispered, 'setting courageously off into the wild unknown.' It was not a daydream she'd ever had before, but she felt the familiar comfort of her imagination wrapping around her. She was an archeologist, a scientist, a treasure hunter. She was a master of land and sea. 'My life is an adventure.' she said, growing confident as she opened her eyes again. 'I will not be shackled to this satellite anymore.'Thorne tilted his head to one side. He waited for three heartbeats before sliding one hand down into hers. 'I have no idea what you're talking about,' he said. 'But we'll go with it.

~ Marissa Meyer

It was not my strength that wanted nursing, it was my imagination that wanted soothing.

~ Joseph Conrad

To live is to wonder.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Don't limit your imagination,the best part of your life,is living your desires.

~ Ebelsain Villegas

Astray from a deep sleep chronic as I write by phonics, like insomnia I will always live the onyx night for revealing, and, upon it, still I'll steal the bright light of day right away just to keep building at speeds hypersonic.

~ Criss Jami