Quotes about Imagination

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn't miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either.

My way of putting it is that Christians are called to live nonviolently not because we believe nonviolence is a strategy to rid the world of war, but in a world of war as faithful followers of Christ, we cannot imagine being anything other than nonviolent.

Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.

I played Mary at the age of seven in my first nativity play, and I loved it - there is something so fascinating about embodying someone else.

One advantage of not being in power is that we can dream of reshaping the world exactly as we please.

One would be lying if one didn't say that one had melodies that I keep in my back pocket.

I know I'm not a wordsmith. And I don't write poetry. Sometimes I think I should, because it's really helpful. But I always wanted to write novels.

To have great poets, there must be great audiences.

I know who the great poets are.

I think it's such a clever idea, that you fall in love when you're 16, and then you have this fantasy about that person for the rest of your life.

A Canadian comedian once told me that when you first go out there to imagine that you're actually just going back out for the encore, that all the clapping is because they've already seen you do your thing and they want to see more. You can train your mind to do anything.