Only worry about what you absolutely know about,’ Mr. Worthington said to me, putting my mind back where it belonged. ‘That’s the key. Worrying about anything else is just a waste of time and emotion....

Imagination is the golden-eyed monster that never sleeps. It must be fed; it cannot be ignored.

George Banks and all he stands for will be saved. Maybe not in life, but in imagination. Because that’s what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and...

All human accomplishment has this same origin, identically. Imagination is a force of nature. Is this not enough to make a person full of ecstasy? Imagination, imagination, imagination! It converts to actual. It sustains, it...

There, Master Niketas,’ Baudolino said, ‘when I was not prey to the temptations of this world, I devoted my nights to imagining other worlds. A bit with the help of wine, and a bit with...

When an imaginative person gets into mental trouble, the line between seeming and being has a way of disappearing-

Many people would have to hang by their teeth from a frayed cord suspended by a paper clip from a leaking hot air balloon over the Grand Canyon in order to feel what I feel...

I didn’t create them, humans created the Pollution. Cheryl Nobel, Alecto Steele, Albert Sanders, Olivia Campbell, all my pretty little Representations, there aren’t many of them left these days but they’re still very dangerous! They’re...

Keats mourned that the rainbow, which as a boy had been for him a magic thing, had lost its glory because the physicists had found it resulted merely from the refraction of the sunlight by...

In order to survive, a plurality of true communities would require not egalitarianism and tolerance but knowledge, an understanding of the necessity of local differences, and respect. Respect, I think, always implies imagination – the...

I always believe it’s better to have 30 imaginations working on a project, rather than one imagination telling the other 29 what to do.

Love is the reflection of a broken heart in a shattered mirror…

If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.

Art serves a purpose. It expands our horizons, frees our minds, and opens us up to new experiences. It opens the imagination. All these great discoveries of our time — without the desire to reach...

The world is only as small as we see it, my lady. Imagination knows no limits.

Had I been able to formulate my first impressions of the United States, I might have said that there was a place in America called Kansas, where people could find a magic land at the...

An idea weighs nothing, except on the mind.

The magic in writing is not so much using your imagination as it is allowing the reader to uses theirs. When I write a novel I’m not going to hand walk you through each scene....

When imagination changes from hoping to knowing, it makes things real.

I can ruthlessly press my imagination out beyond its very edges, and even in such a remote place I have not begun to touch the barest periphery of God’s imagination.

You do not marry a woman, but you marry your imagination of her.

He knew clearly enough that his imagination was growing traitor to him, and yet at times it seemed the ship he sailed in, his fellow-passengers, the sailors, the wide sea, were all part of a...

Imagination allows us to conceive of delightful future possibilities, pick the most amazing one, and pull the present forward to meet it.

The sea in all its vastness is its own, real world. Man is nature’s sci-fi.

Novel writing is World Building & Word Weaving (Neil Postman’s terms).

It is because of this sea between us. The earth has never, up to now, separated us. But, ever since yesterday, there has been something in this nonetheless real, perfectly Atlantic, salty, slightly rough sea...

You invoke a new futurewhen you envision your pastin the light of your present.

They say that none of us exists, except in the imagination of his fellows, other than as an intangible, invisible mentality.

Olenna: Margaery, you’re clever, be a dear and tell your poor old half-daft grandmother the name of that queer fish from the Summer Isles that puffs up to ten times its own size when you...

Who but the artist has the power to open man up, to set free the imagination? The others – priest, teacher, saint, statesman, warrior – hold us to the path of history. They keep us...

An idea is salvation by imagination

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

It was all beginning to run together in the back of Eleanor’s mind, and the things that had probably really happened were confused with the things that probably hadn’t. And every day everything in her...

What is your vision of ideal world?

It doesn’t matter if people are playing jazz or writing poetry — if they want to be successful, they need to learn how to persist and persevere, how to keep on working until the work...

Imaginary diseases are the hardest to cure.

Intellectuals that approach me, only serve to feeding my intellectualism. Imaginists that approach me, only serve to enhancing my Imaginism. It’s impossible to feed my I, for I am the Greatest ‘I AM.

He wanted Jordan so badly, his fantasies consumed him. Whenever he reached out to touch something, paper, the phone, his steering wheel, there was a brief moment when he expected his hand to come in...

Our dreams prove that to imagine – to dream about things that have not happened – is among mankind’s deepest needs.

Please, touch me, I pray.

Imagination is the highest kite that can fly.

Indigo, the deep blue contains an abundance of sapphires shining their light through the density, awakening and stirring our consciousness. In the daylight the sea will change, but for now it remains mysterious, obtainable through...

Life is full of disparate details arbitrarily joined together by dreams, pain and yearning. I do not long for sense, but I call for emotion and imagination amidst this chaos.

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,...

The Super Bowl now takes on a magnitude that almost defies the imagination.

As night falls silently all around,She carefully turns the last page.

The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination

Let the letters clash forming an invisible meaning of a sunny night, freezing chimney, and silent screams. When words betray you, hold on to your imagination.

If truth is not acceptable, it becomes the imagination of others.

I know noble accentsAnd lucid, inescapable rhythms;But I know, too,That the blackbird is involvedIn what I know.