#imagination

Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything. ↗

— Henry Miller

#about #anything #dared #daring #everything

I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I'm likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#amusing #beautiful #comic #deeply #even

I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call it imagination. To me, it's not imagination. It's just a way of watching. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#call #express #fiction #how #i

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever. ↗

— George Orwell

#boot #face #forever #future #human

I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real. ↗

— Sean Parker

#becoming #cusp #delusion #every #i

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#cognizant #day #dream #escape #many

The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#imagination #led #mob #nose #quietly

The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we're disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning. ↗

— Richard Powers

#bodies #cobbled #desire #driven #human

I like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construction of the monster and usually that's in the world of the supernatural or the world of the fantastic, so that's why those kinds of stories about demons and the supernatural appeal to me or maybe I'm really interested in that subject. ↗

— Sam Raimi

#active #appeal #construction #demons #fantastic

Ultimately, so much Dr. Seuss is about empowerment. He invites us to disappear into our imagination and then blows the doors off what that can mean. ↗

— Gary Ross

#blows #disappear #doors #dr #empowerment