David Almond Quotes

No one should be forced to not dream anymore.

At night, the house thick with sleep, she would peer out her bedroom window at the trees and sky and feel the presence of a mystery. Some possibility that included her--separate from her present life and without its limitations. A secret. Riding in the car with her father, she would look out at other cars full of people she'd never seen, any one of whom she might someday meet and love, and would feel the world holding her making its secret plans.

As long as a thing is unknown, it belongs to us in a way that well-known things do not. For we have the opportunity to fill the empty, unknown spaces for ourselves, and in them there is room for imagination and for hope.

When nothing is sure, everything is possible.

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

Just get a bag and drop a dream in it, and you'll be surprised what happens.

At night I can write for hours.

Darkness is full of possibility.

My photographs are a celebration of life, fun and the beautiful. They are a world that doesn't exist. A fantasy. Freedom is real. There are no rules. The life I wish I was living.

If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.

You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone by the next morning. Sometimes it's important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it.

At the beginning, everything's possible and everybody gets equal time, all the characters, all the ideas. You don't know who's going to be the main characters; they're all fighting it out. It's like kind of the best time in a way.

Victorville gave me opportunity to go inside and explore my imagination a bit.

Your dreams are what define your individuality. They have the power to give you wings and make you fly high.

If you create a place where anything can happen, anything will happen.

With your imagination, you can go anywhere or do anything, anything is possible.

If you've ever wondered where your dreams come from when you go to sleep at night, just look around. This is where they are made.

I love acting because it's this space where dreams can be realized, fantasy comes to life, and there are no limitations on what's possible.

"Music, for me, has always been a place where anything is possible--a refuge, a magical world where anyone can go, where all kinds of people can come together, and anything can happen. We are limited only by our imaginations.

Timothy Leary and I kept the same hours. He believed, as I do, that “After midnight, all things are possible.

She gives the night its dreams.

We are bound only by the limits of our imaginations.

You're afraid of imagination and even more afraid of dreams. Afraid of the resposibility that begins in dreams. But you have to sleep and dreams are a part of sleep. When you're awake you can suppress imagination but you can't supress dreams.

Your house is your larger body. It grows in the sun and sleeps in the stillness of the night; and it is not dreamless. Does not your house dream, and dreaming, leave the city for grove or hilltop?