Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes

L'imagination est la reine du vrai, et le possible est une des provinces du vrai. Imagination is the queen of the truth and the possible is one of the provinces of the truth.

Maybe when all was said and done, the imagination was the most powerful of all weapons. It was the imagination of the human race that had allowed it to dream of a life beyond cold caves and of a possible future in the stars.

Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

Imagination decides everything.

Rarely has reality needed so much to be imagined.

One siupreme fact which I have discovered is that it is not willpower, but fantasy and imagination that ceates. Imagination is the creative force. Imagination creates reality.

The imagination, give it the least license, dives deeper and soars higher than Nature goes.

Use your imagination. Trust me, your lives are not interesting. Don't write them down.

What's poetry? It's not real but maybe it's more than real. It's dreaming while you're awake.

If you can imagine a thing, conjure it up in space then you can make it... The universe is real but you can't see it. You have to imagine it. Then you can be realistic about reproducing it.

Anything that can be dreamed is true.

Imagination is the most marvelous, miraculous, inconceivably powerful force the world has ever known.

He who passes not his days in the realm of dreams is the slave of the days.

I believe that the imagination is the passport we create to take us into the real world. I believe the imagination is another phrase for what is most uniquely us.

The world would never amount to a hill of beans if people didn't use their imaginations to think of the impossible.

Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities.

The greatest gift that you were ever given was the gift of your imagination.

I love to create. I love to make magic. I love to create the unexpected.

The imagination may be compared to Adam's dream-he awoke and found it truth.

Imagination is the beginning of reality.

Drawing is exercise for a restless imagination.

Sometimes it's just enough for me to have the idea. I don't need to see it through to the end. When it actually happens, I'm always disappointed because it's never like what I imagined in my head. When an idea becomes a reality, then it's a job. I'd rather just think about it.

So vast, so limitless in capacity is man's imagination to disperse and burn away the rubble-dross of fact and probability, leaving only truth and dream.

... people made the imaginary real all the time: taking the music they heard in their head and recording it, seeing a house in their imagination and building it. Fantasy was always only a reality waiting to be switched on.