Quotes about Imagination

But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger.

Please leave me alone; let me go on to the stars.

Das Leben ist unendlich seltsamer als alles, was der menschliche Geist erfinden könnte.

After all, important fresh evidence is a two-edged thing, and may possibly cut in a very different direction to that which Lestrade imagines. Take your breakfast, Watson, and we will go out together and see what we can do. I feel as if I shall need your company and your moral support today.

Commandments are the railroad tracks on which the life empowered by the love of God poured into the heart by the Holy Spirit runs. Love empowers the engine; law guides the direction. They are mutually interdependent. The notion that love can operate apart from law is a figment of the imagination. It is not only bad theology; it is poor psychology. It has to borrow from law to give eyes to love.

Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard. What you've really got to do is focus on learning as much about life, and about various aspects of it first.

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

I feel that my life and therefore my writing accept the possibility of all the mystery. Everything we don't know; everything that can possibly happen.

An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture

These my sky-robes, spun out of Iris' woof.

A thousand fantasies begin to throng into my memory, of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, and airy tongues that syllable men's names on sands and shores and desert wildernesses.

He knew himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.