Quotes about Imagination
It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.
- Alice Hoffman
Books make great gifts because they're everybody's favorite things.
- Julie Andrews
There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid.
- Ernest Hemingway
In this job, there are some simple pleasures that really help you cope. One is books, I mean, books are a great escape. Books are a way to get your mind on something else.
- George W. Bush
If you want to achieve great things, you need to have a great dream.
- John Maxwell
If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
- Norman Vincent Peale
For, whom the Muses smile upon, And touch with soft persuasion, His words like a storm-wind can bring Terror and beauty on their wing; In his every syllable Lurketh nature veritable.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances.
- Walt Whitman
...one may say anything about the history of the world - anything that might enter the most disordered imagination. The only thing one can't say is that it's rational.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
The reign of imagagology begins where history ends.
- Milan Kundera
Apelles used to paint a good housewife on a snail, to import that she home-keeping.
- James Howell
Reading with children is an enormous gift to them. It's a great honor to invite children to read with adults.
- Henri Nouwen