Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

To Vik Lovell who told me dragons did not exist, then led me to their lairs …

A lie near to truth is always difficult to catch.

The biggest enemy of truth is known as facts in our society.

The eternal gulf between being and idea can only be bridged by the rainbow of imagination.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

It is the imagination of better results that causes us to desire them. And it is the desire for better results that causes us to strive for them. Bold action, then, always begins with a...

A hallucination is a species of reality, as capable of teaching you as a videotape about Kilimanjaro or anything else that falls through your life.

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

And when we describe it as I shall do, it becomes plain that imagination is a specifically human gift. To imagine is the characteristic act, not of the poet’s mind, or the painter’s, or the...

I like the sounds of words. Words are very enjoyable. I like words because they are… seductive. And I like words because they can contain… fantasies.

…the imagination is unleashed by constraints. You break out of the box by stepping into shackles.

The artist’s duty is to defend the exceptional: the imagination.

When people wish for harmony, I wish for chaos. I’d rather see imaginative means of self-destruction, than to see laziness and wasted potential.

My imagination is a monastery, and I am its monk

You are…beyond my imagination. It’s a wonder you can be touched at all.

transformed” her into a cheerleader by the end of the show. I was just wondering: what if she liked field hockey better?

The inertia of the mind urges it to slide down the easy slope of imagination, rather than to climb the steep slope of introspection.

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...

The Romans were a strong power before Virgil, but the Greeks had captured their imaginations. While Rome conquered physical Greece, Greek mythology had enveloped Rome. The Empire coul be confident in itself until a Roman...

…Because a book is a little empathy machine. It puts you inside somebody else’s head. You see out of the world through somebody else’s eyes. It’s very hard to hate people of a certain kind...

There are certain children who are told they are too sensitive, and there are certain adults who believe sensitivity is a problem that can be fixed in the way that crooked teeth can be fixed...

For a scientist must indeed be freely imaginative and yet skeptical, creative and yet a critic. There is a sense in which he must be free, but another in which his thought must be very...

My dear boy, the people who only love once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack...

Stab me if you can enjoy it – but not if it feels like a duty. Stab me vertically if I’m lying down and horizontally if I’m running

We cross from memory into imagination with only a vague awareness of change.

Am I crazy?” she asked. “I feel like I am sometimes.” “Maybe,” he said, rubbing her forehead. “But don’t worry about it. You need to be a little bit crazy. Crazy is the price you...

You will get little or nothing from the printed page if you bring it nothing but your eye.

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,...

Vzduch venku byl kapalného skupenství. Černá, antracitová voda, vybízející k tomu, aby jí člověk položil ruku na hřbet a pohladil ji.

Dreamer in Exile.

Whether divine or human, it is precisely the imagination that fashions and recognizes the universe as meaningful, abiding, and valuable, that is to say, as real.

How promising today’s generation is. They can whip out their cellular phones like sheep, instantly take a million digital photos of their cat and then just delete them. But I’d like to see these kids...

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for...

Truth and facts are woven together. However, sometimes facts can blind you from seeing what is actually going on in someone’s life.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

To be successful in life, plan, implement, revise, update, and build on change.

The only unreachable dream is the one you don’t reach for.

In that way imagination and intelligence enter into our existence in the part of servants of the primary instincts.

On a whitely cloudy day I get sad, almost afraid,And I begin to meditate about problems I make up.

The crisis besetting America is not just an economic or political crisis; something deeper is wreaking havoc across the land, a mercenary and utilitarian attitude that demonstrates little empathy for people’s actual well-being, that dismisses...

Fantasy leaves imaginations larger than it finds them.

There is a brilliant novel in all of us. Some imagine it…others live it. Authors dwell in an auspicious life by having the ability to fuse the two.

Imagination is the gatekeeper of the human soul.

We can breathe in the sweet scent of a tepid summer’s meadow after the kiss of a warm rain, and in the very same moment we can stand utterly breathless underneath the expanse of untold...

Maybe she would have done more good as a playwright than as a doctor, after all — clichés were like plaque in the arteries of the imagination, they clogged the sense of what was possible....

Anything you imagine (inner world)will materialize into your life (outer world). It’s speed of materializing is determined by how much feeling and trust you give it, and how well you are able to recognize when...

Wisdom is nothing more than confirmed imagination: just because one did not study for his exam does not mean that he should leave it blank.

People don’t care about being duped as long as they’re happy, which is the shortest form of happiness; hence ‘self-duprication’ becomes a habit.

It is our imagination that transforms itself into reality, through our physical strength and endeavours.