691 quotes found
“Who misses what they have never, ever even imagined?”
“I liked that sentence then and I like that sentence now but then I had no way of making any sense of it, I could only keep it in my mind's eye, where it rested and grew in the embryo that would bec...”
“The trouble with him was that he was without imagination.”
“How can you read this? There’s no pictures!” “Well, some people use their imagination.” – Gaston & Belle”
“They worried that fantasies were somehow inoculating me against more practical realities.”
“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 i...”
“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.”
“How could children have spotted what everyone else couldn’t?” “Because we haven’t killed off our imaginations,” Aedan mumbled behind a wrapping of arms and knees.”
“When it comes to terror, reality’s got nothing on the power of the imagination[.]”
“But it would have been a surprise, not only to katherine herself, if some magic watch could have taken count of the moments spent in an entirely different occupation from her ostensible one.Sitting...”
“I want something new. I want something I’ve never seen or heard or imagined. I want a spark. I want to be ignited. I want my flesh scorched and imagination set ablaze.”
“My imagination is as rich as my bank account is empty.”
“…the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.”
“Because “we human beings are imaginative by nature, we cannot choose to live by the routine of the ant-heap. If deprived of the imagery of virtue” — imaginative depictions of the truly good life — ...”
“I would suggest that our imagination is a tiny shard of God’s infinite genius that we have within us simply because we were created in God’s image.”
“The greatest imagination in all of existence is one that would be able to take ‘nothing’ and imagine ‘something’ from ‘nothing.’ And that is God.”
“I went up on the hill and walked about until twilight had deepened into an autumn night with a benediction of starry quietude over it. I was alone but not lonely. I was a queen in halls of fancy.”
“If I have been given any gift in this life, it’s my ability to live simultaneously in the rational world and the world of imagination.”
“I cover the floor with a thin layer of imagination so that i’ll always land softly.”
“To dream of afar, to chase a star, to believe in Captain Hook. To dance with bears and have no cares, this is the magic of a book.”
