Quotes about Imagination
the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop, and that hurts.
- LM Montgomery
Of course it was very interesting to see the old chest unpacked, said the Story Girl as she stirred the contents of a saucepan vigorously. But now that it is over I believe I am sorry that it is opened. It isn't mysterious any longer. We know all about it now, and we can never imagine what things are in it any more.
- LM Montgomery
He pipes—he pipes—and we must follow—Jem and Carl and Jerry and I—round and round the world. Listen— listen—can't you hear his wild music? The girls shivered.
- LM Montgomery
If a kiss could be seen I think it would look like a violet.
- LM Montgomery
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?
- LM Montgomery
Every night before I goto bed, I look out of my window and wonder if the dryad is really sitting here, combing her locks with the spring for a mirror. Sometimes I look for her footprints in the dew in the morning. Oh, Diana, don't give up your faith in the dryad!
- LM Montgomery
her most serious shortcoming seemed to be a tendency to fall into daydreams in the middle of a task and forget all about it until such time as she was sharply recalled to earth by a reprimand or a catastrophe.
- LM Montgomery
isn't it a wonderful morning? The world looks like something God had just imagined for His own pleasure, doesn't it? Those trees look as if I could blow them away with a breath—pouf! I'm so glad I live in a world where there are white frosts, aren't you?
- LM Montgomery
For it is sure to come; and if or not it's now not just as we have pictured it, it will likely be infinitely sweeter.
- LM Montgomery
Even when I am alone, I have real good company - dreams and imaginations and pretendings.
- LM Montgomery
Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.
- Cicero
In the hands of a genius, engineering turns to magic, philosophy becomes poetry, and science pure imagination.
- Benjamin Disraeli