Quotes of: Imaginative Keyword

When we write down our dreams we transform what we imagine into reality.

Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road

In the strangely simple economy of the world people only get what they give, and to those who have not enough imagination to penetrate the mere outward of things and feel pity, what pity can be given save that of scorn?

De Profundis

People long to go backward in their imagination as well as forward. We don't wish simply to exist forever in some future; we wish to have existed in some distant past.

Parade of Shadows

I can almost imagine a happiness without her, the ability to let her go, to feel our roots are connected even if I never see that leaf of grass again.

Paper Towns

And whosoever fears Allah and keeps his duty to Him, He will make a way for him to get out (from every difficulty).And He will provide him from (sources) he never could imagine.

The Quran

The exotic and the erotic ideals go hand in hand, and this fact also contributes another proof of a more or less obvious truth - that is, that a love of the exotic is usually an imaginative projection of a sexual desire.

The Romantic Agony

I wish I listened through my urethra, because imagine how euphoric and orgasmic music would be. One love song might get you pregnant.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

To let her imagine how great a lover I’d be, I ate soup with chopsticks. She went home with another man, but I’ll bet she fantasized about me.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Would you mind a mind blindfold, a block on your imagination? You couldn’t create a fantasy world to live in, but you could create a life for yourself without irrational fears of the future.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

I sneezed into the wind, and closed my eyes and imagined my face was barraged by cool ocean spray.

This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks

The last time I saw love was in my imagination while reading a book on Thomas Jefferson. Isn’t the Constitution of the United States so romantic?

This Book is Not FOR SALE

I can imagine no greater bliss than to lie about, reading novels all day.

Ten Things I Love About You

There is nothing more beautiful than seeing a person being themselves. Imagine going through your day being unapologetically you.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

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.

Utopian Man

If I can give you all of these real answers to the questions you assumed were big unanswerable ones, imagine the depth of the new set of questions awaiting on the other side of resolution.

Urgency.

You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversity.

Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination

I think the willfully unimaginative see more monsters. They are often more afraid.

Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination

Darkness does something to a place, doesn’t it? It distorts. It becomes a canvas for the imagination. The good news is that shadows are only the deflection of light. They can frighten, but they can do no harm.

What Are You Afraid Of?

What you are afraid of is never as bad as what you imagine. The fear you let build up in your mind is worse than the situation that actually exists.

Who Moved My Cheese?

Fantasy is storytelling with the beguiling power to transform the impossible into the imaginable, and to reveal our own “real” world in a fresh and truth-bearing light.

The Wand in the Word: Conversations with Writers of Fantasy

What a thing it is to have music that plays your terrible thoughts. I imagined that one piece could drive more delicate women than myself to insanity.

Wish I Was Here