Imaginations Quotes

200 quotes by 181 authors

Adults are living increasingly as children: completely in their imaginations. Reading Harry Potter while every newspaper in the country goes out of business. They know… — Lorrie Moore
Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti
The moon likes secrets," Meran said. "And secret things. She lets mysteries bleed into her shadows and leaves us to ask whether they originated from… — Charles de Lint
No doubt you are right... there would be far less suffering amongst mankind if men... did not employ their imaginations so assiduously in recalling the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To be sane, he held, was either to be sedated by melancholy or activated by hysteria, two responses which were 'always and equally warranted for… — Thomas Ligotti
Children are often envied for their supposed imaginations, but the truth is that adults imagine things far more than children do. Most adults wander the… — Dara Horn
Grace abounds in contemporary movies, books, novels, films and music. If God is not in the whirlwind, He may be in a Woody Allen film,… — Brennan Manning
Isn't it true that it's not people who meet, but rather the shadows cast by their imaginations? — Pascal Mercier
The entire world was like a palace with countless rooms whose doors opened into one another. We were able to pass from one room to… — Orhan Pamuk
In our imaginations we can go anywhere. Travel with me to Redwall in Mossflower country. — Brian Jacques
It's delightful when your imaginations come true, isn't it? — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Even when I'm alone I have real good company â€” dreams and imaginations and pretendings. I like to be alone now and then, just to… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
We have all lost our possessions and many of us our homes," he said. "But these losses, severe though they may seem, remind us of… — Lloyd Jones
Authors do not supply imaginations, they expect their readers to have their own, and to use it — Nella Larsen
For most of human history, 'literature,' both fiction and poetry, has been narrated, not written â€” heard, not read. So fairy tales, folk tales, stories… — Angela Carter
My readers have to work with me to create the experience. They have to bring their imaginations to the story. No one sees a book… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
When the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on. — Gloria Steinem
We all live best in our imaginations. — Brad Meltzer
The creative process requires more than reason. Most original thinking isn't even verbal. It requires 'a groping experimentation with ideas, governed by intuitive hunches and… — David Ogilvy
If we wish to draw philosophical conclusions about our own existence, our significance, and the significance of the universe itself, our conclusions should be based… — Lawrence M. Krauss

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