Through an experience that simultaneously involved my sensibility and intelligence, I realized early on that the imaginative life, however morbid it might seem, is the one that suits temperaments like mine. The fictions of my...

Imagination just wasn’t up to the task of understanding unique and foreign sensations. It knew only how to dampen or augment what it already knew. – Juliette, Pg. 139

I spin worlds where we could be together. I dream you. For me, imagination and desire are very close.

Imagination is divinity.

Never regret losing time on reading good books

Reciprocation was a pretty powerful stimulant to the imagination.

He imagines Owens’ body dotted with saltwater reservoirs just below the skin. An entire wetland, populated with tiny fish and birds, thriving in his agitation. A species of dwarf crocodile lazing beside an artery.

Whatever thing the mind can imagine, the eyes can see, the hands will soon handle.

mašte mi, nažalost, nikad nije manjkalo, ponekad poželim da je nemam, mašta je teret, kamen oko naših nogu koji nas vuče na dno reke.

He made a story for all of them, a story to give them strength. The words of the story poured out of his mouth as if they had substance, pebbles and stone extending to hold...

Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

Take care-there is no force more powerful than that of an unbridled imagination.

The path you are on is the fabric of imagination, but it is kindled with the fires of hopes and dreams…

Dos divinidades hay en el universo: Dios y la imaginación. Ambos pueden diseñar y plasmar infinitas creaciones.

To masturbate is to imagine: physically.

Liberty of imagination should be the most precious possession of a novelist. To try voluntarily to discover the fettering dogmas of its own inspiration, is a trick worthy of humna perverseness which, after inventing an...

Remember when we didn’t know that colours can mix and form other colours. When we were not introduced to strokes that brushes can form, when light and dark were not necessary for the picture to...

Unfortunately, it has come to my attention that the modern world is sorely lacking in imagination. And grown-ups are the biggest culprits of all.

Stand at the top of a cliff and jump off and build your wings on the way down.

Imagination though it cannot wipe out the sting of remorse can instruct the mind in its proper uses.

Imagination is the politics of dreams; imagination turns every word into a bottle rocket. . . . Imagine every day is Independence Day and save us from traveling the river changed; save us from hitchhiking...

The purpose of music as an art form, is to engage the audience.

His so-fucking-vivid imagination rarely gave him the horrors, but when it did, God help him. God help him once it was warmed up. It was not only warmed up now, it was hot and running...

To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention.

Mandy would much rather have imaginary friends who were real than real friends who were imaginary.

She was always daydreaming. She never wanted to live in the real world; she always seemed to be separated from other children her age. They couldn’t understand her or her imagination. She was always thinking...

For, what is order without common sense, but Bedlam’s front parlor? What is imagination without common sense, but the aspiration to out-dandy Beau Brummell with nothing but a bit of faded muslin and a limp...

How do we remain faithful to our own spiritual imagination and not betray what we know in our own bodies? The world is holy. We are holy. All life is holy.

He thought he was walking along a dusty road that showed white in the gathering darkness of a summer night. Whence and whither it led, and why he traveled it, he did not know, though...

Live a life that leaves a memory, nobody can steal.

Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement. … The conventional big-bosomed blonde is not mysterious. And what could be more obvious than the old black velvet and...

I cover the floor with a thin layer of imagination so that i’ll always land softly.

correlation between the growing lack of respect for ideas and the imagination and the increasing gap between rich and poor in America, reflected not just in the gulf between the salaries of CEOs and their...

We make a home for ourselves, every time we work on something: actors, writers, singers, building these little nests in our gypsy souls, in place of the ones we so seldom seem to make in...

Once you realize that the imagination is non-fiction, the world is yours

The root of all fear is imagination.

If left to my own simplistic devices and the sorely scant limits of my abilities, would I not die a death of the blandest sort imaginable? And should I not thank God that He graciously...

Feel, now let your heart be your light; imagination is your way and bliss is your destination.

We are to turn our backs for a space upon the insistent examination of the thing that is, and face towards the freer air, the ampler spaces of the thing that perhaps might be.

Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child’s relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don’t know as much as we think we know.

I can’t even tell you what else I imagined. I can only humiliate myself to such a degree; at a certain point it becomes humorous, and this story is not meant to be humorous. This...

If we have received a precious gift from God, it is our imagination. When we tap into our powers of imagination, we are bombs of possibilities.

The daring leader helps the people see a future state, greater than their own imagination, and worthy of pursuit.

the battle for our culture must be waged at the level of the imagination.

I am a daydreamer.. I daydream a lot, and thus is when my wicked imagination emerges to bleed upon my paper…

from CHAOS?Trust the imagination – lines and shapes revealed – space and light instead of blackness. Silence being tentative, tender life of universe.

Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything godlike about God, it is that. He dared to imagine everything

The waking have one world in common; sleepers have each a private world of his own.

The danger of abusing the discovery of the truth value of imagination for retrogressive tendencies is exemplified by the work of Carl Jung. More empathically than Freud, he has insisted on the cognitive force of...

I find in most novels no imagination at all. They seem to think the highest form of the novel is to write about marriage, because that’s the most important thing there is for middle-class people.