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“Image creates desire. You will what you imagine." -J. G. Gallimore
"They one said that every atom of our body was once part of a star...maybe im not leaving...maybe im just going home.." ~Gattaca
"Magic, in light of modern physics, quantum theory and probability theory is now approaching science. We hope that a result of this will be a synthesis so that science will become more magical and magic more scientific."
I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing star! -Nietzsche
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it. - Ursula K. Le Guin
You see things, and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were, and say "Why not?" -- George Bernard Shaw
Never forget that magic is much too important to be left entirely in the hands of professionals. --Robert Fulghum, Maybe, Maybe Not
“One can’t believe impossible things.”
“I daresay you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” --Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], Alice and the White Queen, in Through the Looking-Glass, (1872).
To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the intellectual man. -Jose Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955) The Revolt of the Masses [1930]
"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them." Thoreau
Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives by makebelieve. ~W. Somerset Maugham, The Summing Up, 1938
"All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be the blade that was broken,
The crownless shall be king."
-J.R.R. Tolkien
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. -- Jules de Gaultier
"The unicorns were the most recognizable magic the fairies possessed, and they sent them to those worlds where belief in the magic was in danger of failing all together. After all there has to be some belief in magic- however small- for any world to survive." -T.B. The Black Unicorn
"There was a time between the warning age of enchantment and the dawning age of logic when dragons flew the skies, free and unencumbered. Looks down there Gorbash, my friend. On the top of the earth below us, confusion and chaos reign. All mankind is facing an epic choice: a world of magic or a world of science. Which will it be?" - Flight of the Dragons
"I have forgotten that men cannot see Unicorns. If men no longer know what they're looking at, there may be other Unicorns in the world yet, unknown. I'm glad of it." - The Last Unicorn
"When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into thousands of little pieces and they went skipping off in all directions ... and that was the beginning of faeries."
"'Will they remember us, Aravan? Will Mankind remember us at all?...' 'Mayhap, Gwylly, mayhap. Mayhap in their legends and their fables. Mayhap in naught but their dreams.'" - Eye of the Hunter
"Men do not invent Myths. They only invent fables, and tell lies. True Myths create themselves, and find their expression in the men who serve their purpose." -Denis Johnston, The Brazen Horn
For there are only two worlds...your world, which is the real world, and other worlds, the fantasy. Worlds like this are worlds of the human imagination: their reality, or lack of reality, is not important.What is important is that they are there. These worlds provide an alternative, provide an escape. Provide a threat. Provide a dream, and power, provide refugeand pain. They give your world meaning. They do not exist; and thus they are all that matters." -Neil Gaiman, Books of Magic
The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after death of the vegetative body. --William Blake
"The others will forget. Humans have never wanted to believe in things of magic - dragons, unicorns, elves - but you know different. Remember me as I was." -Brian A. Hopkins, "Ivory in the Blood"
I'm a li'l dragon, short and stout, here is my tail and here is my snout...if you tip me over, then I'll shout: "Put me on my feet or I'll rip your lungs out".
If you want magic, let go of your armor. Magic is so much stronger than steel! --Richard Bach
If you don't believe in Dragons, it is curiously true, that the Dragons you disparage choose to not believe in you. --Jack Prelutsky
What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness. -M. C. Escher
There had never before been a thing of such grace and beauty in all of creation as the unicorn and never would be again. --Terry Brooks, "The Black Unicorn"
Imagination will live forever, for the Dragons flies in the hearts of those who accept them, and the unicorns stand by them for the person who loves. --Gardeth Dagrette, "Dragon Lord"
Through the darkness of future past/ the magician longs to see.../One change out between two worlds/.Fire walk with me --The One Armed Man, "Twin Peaks
“People don’t want to change anymore. People don’t want to have to think, to use their imaginations, to aspire to anything more than mediocrity or to open their minds to possibility. They just want regular meals and an easy life. Now, there’s not really anything totally inherently bad about regular meals […] The real problem is that now, nobody wants to accept anything new. […] Humanity has chosen to live in a world of crap. It’s a least-common-denominator dystopia, and neither Traditionalist nor Technocrat can jar these six billion limps of flesh from their programmed complacency. [] The Masses have spoken, and they’ve chosen absolute slack-ass mediocrity…” ~Mage: The Ascension
“But if you Build your house on Dreams, it is prudent to Recall- a Man with Moonlight in his hands, has Nothing there at all.” ~Don Quixote
"I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial." --Charles Baudelaire
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it. - Ursula K. Le Guin
To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the intellectual man. -Jose Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955) The Revolt of the Masses [1930]
"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them." Thoreau
Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another. Plato, The Republic. Book VII. 529
One man scorned and covered with scars
still strove with his last ounce of courage
to reach the unreachable stars;
and the world will be better for this.
~ Mitch Leigh, The Quest, based on Cervantes
"She will remember your heart when men are fairy tales in books written by white rabbits." -Schmedrick, The Last Unicorn
"Men do not invent Myths. They only invent fables, and tell lies. True Myths create themselves, and find their expression in the men who serve their purpose." -Denis Johnston, The Brazen Horn
The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after death of the vegetative body. --William Blake
"L'eternit‚.
C'est la mer mˆl‚e
Au soleil."
[Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.]
--Arthur Rimbaud
"Does anybody ever actually root for the coyote?"
"Of course! He's the technologist, the tool-user, the direct spiritual descendant of the ape who got an Idea in the opening of "2001: Space Odyssey!" He's got a brain and opposable thumbs and an Acme Products catalog, and by golly he's going to _use_ them!
What's the bird got besides feet and luck? An air of annoying smugness, that's what. Make him lunch, I say. When I win the lottery, I'm going to fund a Wile E. Coyote Chair of Applied Engineering at some university, I am..." -Carl Burke and William December Starr
Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary." - Sir Cecil Beaton
"Surrendering to reality is a tranquil suicide."
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