Quotes about Imagination

It is youth's felicity as well as its insufficiency that it can never live in the present, but must always be measuring up the day against its own radiantly imagined future - flowers and gold, girls and stars, they are only prefigurations and prophecies of that incomparable, unattainable young dream.

An idea ran backward and forward in his head like a blind man, knocking over the solid furniture.

I want to write something new - something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned. As usual, F. Scott Fitzgerald

he told me all the things he liked to THINK he thought in the misty past.

Oh, sleep that dreams, and dream that never tires, press from the petals of the lotus flower something of this to keep, the essence of an hour.

He wanted a world that was like walking through rain

Books mean more than people to me anyway.

Strange children should smile at each other and say, "Let's play.

He had shown it so often that I think it was more real to him now than the house itself.

He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way. No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man can store up in his ghostly heart.

The world's religions have certain traits in common, but until the gospel of Jesus Christ burst upon the Mediterranean world, no one in the history of human imagination had conceived of such a thing as the worship of a crucified man.

One of my favorite films is 'Big Fish,' which I think is a masterpiece.