Quotes and sayings about tag  imagination

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

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• Humor

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.

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• Writing

Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.

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• Life

The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.

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• Time

Maybe Heaven will be a library. Then I will be able to finish my to-read list.

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• Books

Everything you can imagine is real.

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• Life

A daily dose of daydreaming heals the heart, soothes the soul, and strengthens the imagination.

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• Inspirational

An idea is salvation by imagination

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• Inspirational

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

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• Wisdom

Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning.

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• Inspirational

The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse.

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• Life

It’s strange how dreams get under your skin and give your heart a test for what’s real and what’s imaginary.

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• Love

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

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• Love

As cities grow and technology takes over the world belief and imagination fade away and so do we.

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• Science

People don't read any more. It's a sad state of affairs. Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination. When you watch films it's someone else's vision, isn't it?"[Interview in The Independent, 15 October 2005]

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• Books

if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones.

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• Humor

A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

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• Writing

Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.

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• Writing

I think sometimes when we find love we pretend it away, or ignore it, or tell ourselves we’re imagining it. Because it is the most painful kind of hope there is.

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• Love

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.

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• Writing

When you become the image of your own imagination, it's the most powerful thing you could ever do.

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• Inspirational

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.

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• Writing

A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God.

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• Writing

And people who don’t dream, who don’t have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must go nuts. I can’t imagine that.

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• Inspirational

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.

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• Humor

Truth is a matter of the imagination.

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• Truth

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.

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• Inspirational