



Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?
Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Deathly HallowsImagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited.
Knowledge, Criminal MindsAlbert EinsteinGaston: "How can you read this, there's no pictures?"
Belle: "Well, some people use their imagination."
"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies," said Jojen. "The man who never reads lives only once."
ReadingGeorge R. R. Martin in A Song of Ice and Fire - A Dance with DragonsThe gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Albert EinsteinDoors are for people with no imagination.
Derek Landy in Skulduggery Pleasant - Der Gentleman mit der FeuerhandWhen a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains of this world disappear. For as long as the story goes on, reality no longer exists.
Paul Auster in The Brooklyn FolliesIt's like we talked about, you control this world. Let the pain go, let the hurt go, let the guilt go. What you are imagining right now, that world you control. That place can be as real as any pain.
Sucker Punch, by Dr. Vera GorskiWe do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.
MagicJoanne K. RowlingI believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?
FaithJohn LennonDisneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.
Walt Disney, Opening Speech - Disneyland CaliforniaI've heard tell, that what you imagine sometimes comes true.
Roald Dahl in Charlie and the Chocolate FactoryEverything great that happend in the world, happened first in someone's fantasy.
Astrid LindgrenMy imagination is my polestar; I steer by that.
Clive BarkerImagination… its limits are only those of the mind itself.
Rod SerlingI’d spent my entire life overdosing on uncut escapism, willingly allowing fantasy to become my reality.
Ernest Cline in ArmadaThe books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.
Books, ReadingRoald Dahl in Matilda...when I was a kid and rode in cars I used to imagine I held a big scythe in my hand and cut down all the trees and posts and even sliced every hill that zoomed past the window.
Children & ChildhoodJack Kerouac in On the RoadChildren do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.
Children & ChildhoodMaurice SendakMen suffer more from imagining too little than too much.
The Greatest Showman, by P.T. BarnumI like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.
Craziness & WeirdnessTheodor Seuss GeiselWhat did i know of your fantasies? Why do we know so little about the fantasies of our parents? What do we know of somebody if we know nothing of the images passed to him by his imagination?
Pascal Mercier in Night Train to LisbonThe power of imagination makes us infinite.
John MuirFantasies have to be unrealistic. Because the minute- the second- that you get what you want, you don't- you can't- want it anymore.
The Life of David Gale, by David GaleAnd I'm dreaming 'bout times, times that are gone
Times when I lived alone in my own land called ochrasy
That place was everything to me
The world I made it up you see
It's all there in my fantasy
And I believe it
Fantasy isn't just a jolly escape: It's an escape, but into something far more extreme than reality, or normality. It's where things are more beautiful and more wondrous and more terrifying.
Terry GilliamChildren have to grow into their imaginations like a pair of oversized shoes.
Stephen King in The ShiningThe wonderful thing is, imagination is universal all over the world, no matter what the language is.
Siegfried & Roy, BordersRoy HornThere must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.
William GodwinThere are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
Gilbert Keith ChestertonThe only limits are, as always, those of vision.
James BroughtonNo amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.
Edward HopperBe bored and see where it takes you, because the imagination's dusty wilderness is worth crossing if you want to sculpt your soul.
Nancy GibbsThe world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
Jean-Jacques RousseauImagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
Carl SaganThe world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
Jean-Jacques RousseauThe imagination is a muscle. If it is not exercised, it atrophies.
Neil GaimanBook hangover: Inability to start a new book, because you're still living in the last book's world.
Books, ReadingUnknownI like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
Humor & ComedyTheodor Seuss GeiselHow can you research a made-up world? You can't, really.
Andrew Stanton (Employee at Pixar Animation Studios)