“ I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. ”
“ When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable. ”
“ We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. ”
“ Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. ”
“ I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death. ”
“ If you are a dreamer come in
If you are a dreamer a wisher a liar
A hoper a pray-er a magic-bean-buyer
If youre a pretender com sit by my fire
For we have some flax golden tales to spin
Come in!
Come in! ”
“ A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way. ”
“ Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got. ”
“ Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create. ”
“ Imagination is the golden-eyed monster that never sleeps. It must be fed; it cannot be ignored. ”
“ I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen. ”
“ There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun ”
“ The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies. ”
“ Children see magic because they look for it. ”
Christopher Moore , Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
“ Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere. ”
“ Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out. ”
“ Because fear kills everything," Mo had once told her. "Your mind, your heart, your imagination. ”
“ We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep. ”
“ Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection. ”
“ Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning. ”
“ Because when you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worth while. ”
“ Looking back, I guess I used to play-act all the time. For one thing, it meant I could live in a more interesting world than the one around me. ”
“ The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself. ”
“ Lovers and madmen have such seething brains,
Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend
More than cool reason ever comprehends.
The lunatic, the lover and the poet
Are of imagination all compact:
One sees more devils than vast hell can hold,
That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic,
Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt:
The poet's eye, in fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven;
And as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name. ”
“ V-Day…if you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for your loved one I think it’s quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It’s all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love. ”
“ The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse. ”
“ Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive--it's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we know all about everything, would it? There'd be no scope for imagination then, would there?But am I talking too much? People are always telling me I do. Would you rather I didn't talk? If you say so I'll stop. I can STOP when I make up my mind to it, although it's difficult. ”
“ My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it. ”
“ You are lucky to be one of those people who wishes to build sand castles with words, who is willing to create a place where your imagination can wander. We build this place with the sand of memories; these castles are our memories and inventiveness made tangible. So part of us believes that when the tide starts coming in, we won't really have lost anything, because actually only a symbol of it was there in the sand. Another part of us thinks we'll figure out a way to divert the ocean. This is what separates artists from ordinary people: the belief, deep in our hearts, that if we build our castles well enough, somehow the ocean won't wash them away. I think this is a wonderful kind of person to be. ”
Anne Lamott , Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
“ Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world. ”
“ It’s strange how dreams get under your skin and give your heart a test for what’s real and what’s imaginary. ”
“ When you're socially awkward, you're isolated more than usual, and when you're isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already been said and done. All your hope in life starts to depend on your craft, so you try to perfect it. One reason I stay isolated more than the average person is to keep my creativity as fierce as possible. Being the odd one out may have its temporary disadvantages, but more importantly, it has its permanent advantages. ”
