Quotes of: Imagining Keyword

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

The Anne Stories (Anne of Green Gables, #1-3, 5, 7-8)

You see, this would be a death by the imagination. And though the imagination feeds on phantoms, it needs a premise in reality to begin with. Then it can go on from there under its own power. ("Mind Over Murder")

Angels of Darkness

He hurried to car and set off home, hoping he was imagining things, which he had never hoped before, because he didn't approve of imagination.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Perhaps he knew, there in the grass by the waters, that he had before him an immense journey.

The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature

I want something new. I want something I’ve never seen or heard or imagined. I want a spark. I want to be ignited. I want my flesh scorched and imagination set ablaze.

Scorched

When men imagine a female uprising, they imagine a world in which women rule men as men have ruled women.

Meditation for the Love of It: Enjoying Your Own Deepest Experience

I believe that we have the ability to change our lives using our imaginations. Imagination is a muscle—the more you use it, the stronger it gets.

The Last Book in the Universe

I believe that the imagination is the passport we create to take us into the real world. I believe the imagination is another phrase for what is most uniquely us.

Six Degrees of Separation

Science fiction is not about the freedom of imagination. It's about a free imagination pinched and howling in a vise that other people call real life.

Shaping Things

Fairy tales and folk tales are for children and childlike people, not because they are little and inconsequential, but because they are as enormous as life itself.

Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child

[A] great novel will allow you to transcend the social, racial and political limitations imposed by the vicissitudes of life and to find a deep fraternity based on empathy.

The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books

These people,” he had said with his inscrutable smile, “are different from us. They don’t care about books and such things.

The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books

En las ligeras todas las cosas son visible, pero en la oscuridad, muchas cosas son imaginable. Translated: In the light all things are visible, but in the dark many things are imaginable.

The Temp

Though my skull is the size of a soup bowl, everything in the universe—and more—can fit inside my imagination. And guess what? My imagination tastes like chicken noodle soup.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

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

The Wave in the Mind: Talks & Essays on the Writer, the Reader & the Imagination

No book is really worth reading at the age of 10 which is not equally worth reading at the age of 50.

Honey for a Child's Heart: The Imaginative Use of Books in Family Life

Francois Hollande is an intelligent man. I do not have a problem with him. The only thing is, he has never held office at the state level. Honestly, can you imagine Francois Hollande as president of France? Imagine it!

Nicolas Sarkozy

The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which means it must be exercised in a disciplined way, day in and day out, by writing, failing, succeeding and revising." [ (Jessica Strawser, , May/June 2...

Stephen King

I have zero respect for knowledge, that’s what computers are for. Imagination is the kicker because imagination can extrapolate, create and solve, Knowledge is just facts and shit. Mostly irrelevant.” Kego O'Grady in The Navigator By Steve Merric...

Steve Merrick

Imagine that everything you are typing is being read by the person you are applying to for your first job. Imagine that it's all going to be seen by your parents and your grandparents and your grandchildren as well.

Tim Berners-Lee

Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don't need to imagine it. It's called the United States of America.

Thomas Sowell