Even when I worked in that world, I still wanted love so strong that the man would have no interest in another woman. Maybe you will always be incapable of giving that kind of love....

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...

We are only constrained by the boundaries of our imagination

Plant the seed of desire in the field of imagination to grow the harvest of invention.

One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imagination. This is a quick-silver faculty, and likely to be a cause of worry to any collective settlement.

Realism falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into account our basic truths and our fundamental obsessions: love, death, astonishment. It presents man in a reduced and...

My imagination longs to dash ahead and plan developments; but I have noticed that when things happen in one’s imagination, they never happen in one’s life.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

If you start most of your sentences with ‘Why Can’t’, ‘Why Not’, or ‘What if’, you’ll build a stronger imagination.

There is but one world and everything that is imaginable is necessary to it. For this world also which seems to us a thing of stone and flower and blood is not a thing at...

No one knows very much about the life of another. This ignorance becomes vivid, if you love another. Love sets the imagination on fire, and, also, eventually, chars the imagination into a harder element: imagination...

Dr. Manning said he’d thought at first it might be sleeping sickness, or even narcolepsy, whatever that was, but – no, Pete was healthy enough physically. Manoel growled that the boy was bone-lazy, spending his...

There are known knowns, things we know that we know; and there are known unknowns, things that we know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns, things we do not know we don’t...

You’re afraid of imagination. And even more afraid of dreams. Afraid of the responsibility that begins in dreams. But you have to sleep, and dreams are a part of sleep. When you’re awake you can...

when you ARE imagining you might as well imagine something worth while

We are inspired by divine power to write.

Each day is filled with beautiful splendid.

Almost all our cares are imaginary. We think them into existence.

Reality cannot breathe without imagination.

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart’s affections and the truth of the Imagination.

The gift of imagination is by no means an exclusive property of the artist; it is a gift we all share; to some degree or other all of us are endowed with the powers of...

Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we’ll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay.

People are made in such a way that if something inexplicable happens to them, they write it off to an overheated imagination.

A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true about himself and his environment…For imagination sets the goal ‘picture’ which our automatic mechanism works on. We...

As inexplicable as the accidents that set it off, our imagination is a crucial privilege. I’ve tried my whole life simply to accept the images that present themselves to me without trying to analyze them....

Y algo golpeaba en mi alma, fiebre o alas perdidas, y me fui haciendo solo, descifrando aquella quemadura y escribí la primera línea vaga, vaga, sin cuerpo, pura, tontería pura sabiduría del que no sabe...

show me your eyes and i should tell who you are and what would your future

Bricks without straw are more easily made than imagination without memories.

The mind of man is capable of anything – because everything is in it, all the past as well as the future.

Without imagination, writing is a stack of lumber, a sack of nails, and a locked tool shed.

There is an implicit recognition here that important things in life are not always immediately visible, and can’t always be named, or even fully understood. Others still are entirely imaginary — like a red tree...

With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word ‘intellectual,’ of course, became the swear word it deserved to be....

Without the dreamers who write science fiction and other imaginary material we’d still be sitting in caves … if we weren’t already extinct.

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

Art is a mirror of time, it must reflect a moment.

Just because I don’t believe in YOUR God doesn’t mean I don’t believe in God. I just choose not to be bound by the limits of your imagination or those of your ancestors.

The imagination is truly the enemy of bigotry and dogma.

That kind of imagination is why we’re not dead.

Grabbing readers by the imagination is a writer’s job.

Ah, he has too many ideas, that man da Vinci. His mind works faster than his hands.

That’s the way the mind works: the brain is genetically disposed towards organization, yet if not controlled, will link even the most imagerial fragment to another on the flimsiest pretense and in the most freewheeling...

I don’t just write books. I climb inside and live there.

Life is too short to be anything but happy. So kiss slowly. Love deeply. Forgive quickly. Take chances and never have regrets. Forget the past but remember what it taught you.

Writing is a job, a talent, but it’s also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon.

The ecstatic state of wholeness is bound to be transient because it has no part in the total pattern of ‘adaptation through maladaptation’ which is characteristic of our species…the hunger of imagination, the desire and...

A scientist is proud of his intelligence, an artist is proud of his imagination.

Do people ever climb the demon towers? Like, for any reason?” Aline looked up. “Climb the demon towers?” She laughed. “No, no one ever does that. It’s totally illegal, for one thing, and besides, why...

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

Katie quickly learned the best way is to see another world entirely.

I imagined I was God for a millisecond And became speechless for a long time.