Imaginative Quotes

We're a very imaginative species; we're very good at creating fictions.

— Emma Mackey

I think of feminism as a socially just and imaginative world.

— Suheir Hammad

“Do you know a better time than the present for igniting your dreams?”

— and Artist Carolyn Tody

The religions of the world are the ejaculations of a few imaginative men.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

An imaginative adventure does not enjoy the same corsets as reportage.

— Samuel Beckett

History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.

— Voltaire

Milton had a highly imaginative, Cowley a very fanciful mind.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.

— Oscar Wilde

And people who don’t dream, who don’t have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must go nuts. I can’t imagine…

— Stephen King

In the longer run and for wide-reaching issues, more creative solutions tend to come from imaginative interdisciplinary collaboration.

— Robert J. Shiller

As much as I know people love the method and what you can draw out of yourself, a lot of acting is…

— Patton Oswalt

People who cannot think in an orderly way are apt to suppose themselves more imaginative than others.

— George Albert Wells

'The Man In High Castle' is one of Dick's most imaginative and captivating works, and certainly one of my favorites.

— Ridley Scott

“I think a beautiful mind is a imaginative one. Free of social pollutions or boring restrictions of thought.”

— Zachary Koukol

The intensity of vision in the artist and of vividness in his creations are the sole tests of his imaginative power.

— George Henry Lewes

To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

If plants could be credited with reasoning powers, we would marvel at the imaginative ways they bribe or ensnare other creatures to…

— Jane Goodall

I'm dyslexic. If you can reconcile yourself to not being able to burn through books, which you shouldn't any way, you can…

— Richard Ford

Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always…

— Margaret Mahy

In many ways, astrology, numerology and palmistry are corruptions of the occult because they have attempted to make a practice out of…

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

Cities have become places where we are controlled, by CCTV and other means, in the same way as machines are controlled. My…

— Antony Gormley

The pursuit of natural knowledge, the investigation of the world - mental and material - in which we live, is not a…

— Archibald Hill

I'm alienated from this world because its weird and I don't want to be a part of it. I want to be…

— John C. Reilly

If you have never failed at anything, then you haven't been trying hard enough, aren't very imaginative, or have had such extraordinarily…

— Margaret Heffernan

It's a little bit like talking about the life of writing. The life of writing may be about many things, but it…

— Sam Abell

The only valid reason to use clichés is in the speech of a character. Cliches are indications of sloppy writing. The writer…

— Leonard Bishop

1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Humans in modern societies are driven by a perhaps desperate hope that they might find some way of mobilizing their theoretical and…

— Raymond Geuss

What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without? We have the most varied and imaginative bathrooms…

— Agnes de Mille

Much as being active in the antislavery movement of the last century involved more than not engaging in slavery oneself, so joining…

— Sissela Bok

Without doubt, the foremost band for decades has been the One O'Clock Lab Band at the University of North Texas. Through its…

— Gary Burton

The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is left none over for works of…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

“Pandora launched into a detailed account of her conversation with the hermit crab, reporting that his name was Shelley, after the poet,…

— Lisa Kleypas

People are not as imaginative as they think they are.

— DeRay Mckesson

“Silence is the doorway to the temple of imagination.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“Be bold. Be different. Have a purpose. Be imaginative.”

— Sravani Saha Nakhro

God is only a great imaginative experience.

— D. H. Lawrence

“What would your shoes say about the things you do everyday?”

— Sherley Mondesir-Prescott

“And you wouldn't eat your egg.' 'My palace was inside.”

— Emma Richler

Much of the visualizing is imaginative.

— Fred D'Aguiar