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.

If you can imagine it you can surely create it

You can do more with a castle in a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on a nursery table.

I tried the experiment of showing him my Drawing Number One, which I have always kept. I would try to find out, so, if this was a person of true understanding. But, whoever it was,...

Eroticism is mystique; that is, the aura of emotion and imagination around sex. It cannot be ‘fixed’ by codes of social or moral convenience, whether from the political left or right. For nature’s fascism is...

Sometimes loneliness makes the loudest noise.

What I corrupted was what is called the truth in favour of a more marvelous world. I could always improve on the facts.[…] in self-defense, I accuse the writers of fairy-tales. Not hunger, not cruelty,...

On some days she was able to see both sun and moon at the same time. Like feuding cousins, they hung in two corners of the vast world-ceiling refusing to look at one another. The...

Imagination is pure potentiality for creation. We shouldn’t submit it to the hourly wages we subject our time at work.

And once their imaginations are liberated, they begin glimpse the grand interconnectedness of all things. Eternity begins to peek out from behind the everyday things and they see the trappings of any earthly moment as...

In those sticky summer nights in South London our windows stay open and our tiny apartment becomes our secret garden. The magic of the secret garden is that it exists in our imagination. There are...

Creativity is a fragile, delicate flower,which must be cautiously cared forand protected,from the harsh elementsof “human weather.

The complete recipe for imagination is absolute boredom.

The sandy beach reminded Harold of picnics. And the thought of picnics made him hungry. So he laid out a nice simple picnic lunch. There was nothing but pie. But there were all nine kinds...

Because there is a word for perfection, people will always imagine that they know it.

The price tag could be very little, or it could be beyond our wildest imagination.

Gates got up, but not fast or jerkily, with the same slowness that had always characterized him. He wiped the sweat off his palms by running them lightly down his sides. As though he were...

The possible’s slow fuse is lit by the Imagination.

To write is to feel the dance of your soul swirling in a dream that drips imagination onto paper.

He looks like you’d imagine him to look like, if you had no imagination.

My imagination is as rich as my bank account is empty.

By using repetition, images, and other strategies – all of which communicate truths in ways that are not cognitively or propositional – marketing forms us into the kind of persons who want to buy beer...

Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.

My life exists in an imagined reality.

Imagination is paradise.

Look at a full vivid painting, and look at an empty picture. If you can immediately see an entire universe within the empty picture, and absolutely nothing in the vivid painting, clarity is your friend....

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture…Do not build up obstacles in...

I could spend all day lost in someone else’s imagination. I love reading.

The broadest possible exercise of imagination is the thing most conducive to human health, individual and global

If there are no new ideas, there is no innovation. And if there is no creativity, there are no new ideas.

I am simply impressed by the unexpected insights which shower down on me when my job is to imagine, as contrasted with the woodenly familiar ideas which clutter my desk when my job is to...

Imagination is the road less taken, but it is the pathway of prayer.

A word is a small song.

I am going to add a cold beer. Why not a bottle of whiskey? Because my story is cheap and cannot afford such props. Goddamn, even my imagination is not wealthy enough to order a...

For the most expensive way to realize an orgasm, men open their wallets. For the cheapest, they close their eyes.

He expected pages and pages of bright pictures of pancakes of every variety shown in plain stacks, or built into castles or bridges or igloos, or shaped like airplanes or rowboats or fire engines. And...

Employing your imagination is the first step to the fulfillment of any dream.

Texts are not “processed” as much as they are resurrected, and the image of reader and information processor or computer device, which often dominates current discussions of reading, seems less apt than another metaphor: the...

My imagination functions much better when I don’t have to speak to people.

Knowledge is life with wings but imagination is the soul of those wings..!

Y ese es mi gran problema, paso mucho más tiempo imaginando las cosas que viviéndolas.

A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong.

Have you ever played Maximum Happy Imagination?””Sounds like a Japanese game show.”Kat straightens her shoulders. “Okay, we’re going to play. To start, imagine the future. The good future. No nuclear bombs. Pretend you’re a science...

Wants” can be anything from a woman wanting a man to have certain materialistic things, or she could want him to look a certain way, those are a few examples of the things that some...

Lovers and madmen have such seething brains,Such shaping fantasies, that apprehendMore than cool reason ever comprehends.The lunatic, the lover and the poetAre of imagination all compact:One sees more devils than vast hell can hold,That is,...

A misbegotten hatchling of consciousness, a birth defect of our species, imagination is often revered as a sign of vigor in our make-up. But it is really just a psychic overcompensation for our impotence as...

Children have imagination enough to grasp any idea which you present to them with honesty and without patronage.

Imagination ist alles. Es ist die vorschau des lebens auf die kommenden attraktionen.