Imagination Quotes

"The backyard isn’t just a backyard. It’s a jungle, a moon base, a race track!"

- Bluey

"Dressing up is the first step into the world of make-believe."

- Bluey

"If you can imagine it, you can play it."

- Bluey

"The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower."

- Roberto Bolaño

"Your vision is not limited by what your eye can see, but by what your mind can imagine."

- Ellison Onizuka

"In science fiction, we dream. In order to colonize in space, to rebuild our cities, which are so far out of whack, to tackle any number of problems, we must imagine the future, including the new technologies that are required."

- Ray Bradbury

"Indulge your imagination in every possible flight."

- Jane Austen

"The shadowwolf had stared at her long and mute, and Mia had thought she'd refuse. But as the girl had looked down at the darkness beneath her feet, it had grown darker still. Dark enough for three."

- Jay Kristoff

"If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities."

- Maya Angelou

"On Wednesday afternoons I could be practically anything."

- Kit Williams

"To read is to voyage through time."

- Carl Sagan

"You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book!"

- Dr. Seuss

"But for the briefest moment, the blue of Zoe’s pool gave way to deeper, darker aqua-colored water. The few plants and rocks were replaced with a lagoon and a waterfall where several mermaids lounged half in the water, half in the sun. They splashed and dove, their laughter making the same sound as the water."

- Michelle Cuevas

"Not a hundred feet away the river roared over a cliff’s-edge, and we weren’t really leaves, even if I’d been careful to forget that."

- Naomi Novik

"He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Reality leaves a lot to the imagination."

- John Lennon

"Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realized that the imagery in my mind wasn’t insanity. Surrealism to me is reality."

- John Lennon

"Dreams feel real while we're in them. It's only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange."

- Inception

"When I was five, I imagined that there was such a thing as a unicorn. And this was before I had even heard of one, or seen one. I just drew a picture, of a horse, that could fly over rainbows, and had a huge spike in its head. I was five! Five years old. Couldn’t even talk yet."

- Michael Scott

"Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning."

- Gloria Steinem

"Logic gets you from A to B, imagination gets you anywhere"

- Albert Einstein

"Perfumes are the feelings of flowers."

- Heinrich Heine

"I really love being human. But some days I really wish I could be fairy."

- Greta, age 4

"What is now proved was once only imagined."

- William Blake

"Preschool see magic because they seek it."

- Christopher Moore

"We pretended she’d only gotten lost in the colors of fall."

- T. Greenwood

"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere."

- Carl Sagan

"Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age and dreams are forever."

- Walt Disney

"You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?"

- George Bernard Shaw

"The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity… and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself."

- William Blake