Alexandra Adornetto Quotes

Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.

When I was a kid, we had to rely on our imaginations for entertainment.

A young imagination is bold, likes to make bigger leaps. It likes to, well, imagine that the dustbuster is a dinosaur; that the computer mouse is a hotrod; that the box is a cave; that the rawhide is a torch... or a baton... or something.

When I was a little, little kid, my family got a new washing machine, and they had a big box that was left over. So I cut a big hole in the box, and I made it like a giant TV set. I brought it into the living room, and I did the news and the weather for my family.

From stoplights to skyscrapers, turn anywhere in civilization and you will see imagination at work. It's in our inventions, advances and remedies and how a single parent masterminds each day. Imagination is boundless, surrounds us and resides in us all.

We should have more invention.

For one person who is blessed with the power of invention, many will always be found who have the capacity of applying principles.

As children, we did not have toys. We invented characters and animals; we invented stories.

Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.

The ability to play pretend is something that everyone has access to; you see little kids doing it.

Hunger is the teacher of the arts and the bestower of invention. -Magister artis ingenique largitor Venter

I always knew I wanted to create. I used to sit in my room for hours drawing and making things. I once got into trouble for cutting up my mother's lampshades to make a dress. I was three.

All children have creative power.

I don't think I wrote stories down when I was young, but I certainly made them up, perhaps sometimes losing track of the border between reality and make-believe.

I think in order to keep America great, we have to keep America creative.

To me, very much of what is artistic is people's very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations.

Kids don't plan to play. They don't go: 'Barbie, Ken, you ready to play? It's gonna be a three-act.'

Each additional idea is a gift to the future. Each additional idea producer is a source of wealth for future generations.

You know the way that children play make-believe in the garden? I did that and I thought, 'This will do for life. Why would I want to do anything else?'

I credit my mom with inspiring in me a love of design, matched by her creative problem-solving abilities. This is a woman who could find an old, discarded piece of furniture, bring it home and turn it into something fabulous.

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

We are a very crafty family.

Like many kids, I used to pretend all sorts of things. I would climb into a tree and imagine that I was on an island, that the grass below we was an ocean, that the leaves were the fins of sharks. Perhaps unlike many people, I never really stopped. I still have a childlike predisposition to fantasise and share my fantasies.