What is dollar value but something to amuse people who have no imagination? People who have money and no imagination follow fashion. People who have imagination and no money fashion styles.
The less you see, the more you can imagine.
People populate the darkness; with ghosts, with gods, with electrons, with tales.
Would you like to hear the night I bravely fought the
MagicSandra's seen a leprechaun, Eddie touched a troll, Laurie danced with witches once, Charlie found some goblins' gold. Donald heard a mermaid sing, Susy spied an elf, but all the magic I have...
It's a magical world, Hobbes, ol' buddy... Let's go exploring!
To Flora, the doorbell sounded like the electric chair. Not
What is?', he said. 'What if?' is a question that belongs to magic.
I hurtled down a path through the middle of a park, past shrubbery so refined it was probably entitled to vote.
Can you draw a picture on the blackboard when somebody doesn't want you to? asked the rooster promptly. Yes, answered Kenny, if you write them a very nice poem. What is an only goat? A lonely goat,...
Yes, I regret you because you are a true child, Scarlett. A child who cries because she can't touch the moon. And what would she do with it if she finally reached it?
"Diana: I wish I were rich, and I could spend the whole summer at a hotel, eating ice cream and chicken salad. Anne: You know something, Diana? We are rich. We have sixteen years to our credit, and we...
Fairyland is the loveliest word because it means everything the human heart desires.
Still the strange ships glittered and shone, and this led to some discussion as to what they might be made of. The Admiral thought perhaps iron or steel. Metal ships indeed! The French are, as I have...
Mizzy has, again, wandered into the garden, like a child who feels no fealty to adult conversation.
What if the places you went and the things you encountered in your work were more interesting than what was available in the physical world around you?
The idea of fairyland fascinates me because it's one of those things, like mermaids and dragons, that doesn't really exist, but everyone knows about it anyway. Fairyland lies only in the eye of the...
How do we remain faithful to our own spiritual imagination and not betray what we know in our own bodies? The world is holy. We are holy. All life is holy.
The interior life is often stupid. Its egoism blinds it and deafens it; its imagination spins out ignorant tales, fascinated. It fancies that the western wind blows on the Self, and leaves fall at the...
Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.
Get to work. Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair.
You seemed so far away," Miss Honey whispered, awestruck."Oh, I was. I was flying past the stars on silver wings," Matilda said. "It was wonderful.
Close your senses and the imagination comes alive. It's inside us al, dulled by endless television reruns and by a society that reins in fantasy as something not to be trusted, something to be purged....
I like that, well before T.S. Eliot expressed himself on the matter, Samuel Butler stated that the severest test of the imagination was naming a cat.
It's all a question of imagination. Our responsibility begins with the power to imagine.
Ah? A small aversion to menial labor?" The doctor cocked an eyebrow. "Understandable, but misplaced. One should treasure those hum-drum tasks that keep the body occupied but leave the mind and heart...
Our dreams prove that to imagine - to dream about things that have not happened - is among mankind's deepest needs.
One of the many things I have always loved about writing, not to be confused with publishing, is that all you need is your imagination. It doesn't matter who you are, you can write. Your looks,...
They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing.
He knew clearly enough that his imagination was growing traitor to him, and yet at times it seemed the ship he sailed in, his fellow-passengers, the sailors, the wide sea, were all part of a filmy...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...