Imaginative Quotes · Page 4

The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The thrill of terror is passive, masochistic, and implicitly feminine. It is imaginative submission to overwhelming superior force.

— Camille Paglia

[Science is] an imaginative adventure of the mind seeking truth in a world of mystery.

— Cyril Norman Hinshelwood

Personally I believe that the courses we followed for some years after World War II were enlightened, surprisingly imaginative and extremely effective.

— Anonymous

I think people have always loved things that are bigger than life, things that are imaginative.

— Stan Lee

We have invented the literature because the reality wasn't imaginative enough and we also wanted to be alone, at least for a…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Every movie I do is challenging for me. There is some element of imaginative that you wouldn't have in a typical movie.

— Michel Gondry

“Take a scientific fact or theory, add a futuristic or other-worldly setting, stir in an imaginative plot and fascinating characters, and a…

— Yvonne Coleman

Imaginative, sanguine men will never recognize that in negotiations the most dangerous moment of all is when everything is moving according to…

— Honore de Balzac

Thank heaven I don't inherit God from anybody! I am free to make mine up as I wish Him. He's kind and…

— Jean Webster

Glamour is an imaginative process that creates a specific emotional response: a sharp mixture of projection, longing, admiration, and aspiration. It evokes…

— Virginia Postrel

The thing is, I don't believe in most of what's done. The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity…

— William Hurt

The Canadian people are more practical than imaginative. Romantic tales and poetry would meet with less favour in their eyes than a…

— Susanna Moodie

Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some…

— Zaha Hadid

The true method of discovery is like the flight of an aeroplane. It starts from the ground of particular observation; it makes…

— Alfred North Whitehead

I have for a long time loved fabulist, imaginative fiction, such as the writing of Italo Calvino, Jose Saramago, Michael Bulgakov, and…

— Alan Lightman

And when I look at a history book and think of the imaginative effort it has taken to squeeze this oozing world…

— Jeanette Winterson

To put it in a nutshell, the Central and South American high cultures of antiquity were entirely worthy of comparison with what…

— Joseph Needham

I have always considered imaginative truth to be more profound, more loaded with significance, than every day reality... Everything we dream about,…

— Eugene Ionesco

“Greg Broadmore's fertile and twisted imagination has conjoined multiple genres, memories, and a sharp sense of pulp, colonialist nostalgia/parody in this lavish,…

— Adam Savage

It is characteristic of the barbarian ... to insist upon seeing a thing "as it is." The desire testifies that he has…

— Richard M. Weaver

After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing; when the reader creates emotion in their head,…

— Jasper Fforde

It is all very well to say that children are happier with mud pies and rag dolls than with these elaborate delights.…

— Ada Leverson

“When no possessions keep us, when no countries contain us, and no time detains us, man becomes a heroic wanderer, and woman,…

— Roman Payne

A clever, imaginative, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds.

— Percy Ross

Ritual is the most primitive reflection of serious thought, a slow deposit, as it were, of people's imaginative insight into life.

— Susanne Katherina Langer

For many imaginative writers, working for the press is a fact of their life. But it's best not to like it too…

— Hilary Mantel

We must be both rational and intellectual, both analytic and imaginative, utilizing both statistics and insight.

— Lloyd

A desirable advertisement will be reasonable, but never dull ... original, but never self-conscious ... imaginative, but never misleading.

— Fairfax M. Cone

Whether the poet is living or dead, they're part of our imaginative community.

— Joan Larkin

I like things that are weirdly imaginative and couldn't be real, but I also like stories that are recognizable and relatable.

— Brian K. Vaughan

“What is a Wanderess? Bound by no boundaries, contained by no countries, tamed by no time, she is the force of nature’s…

— Roman Payne

A poem needs imaginative rhythms as well as imaginative transformation of content.

— Helen Vendler

The disinterested imaginative core of mythology is what develops into literature, science, philosophy. Religion is applied mythology.

— Northrop Frye

Time and time again we forget all too easily that nonviolent action embraces a wide and imaginative range of behavior which can…

— Petra Kelly

“To picture the desert as a place where trees are capable of growing is an act of faith.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Too much reality in a picture is always a disappointment to the imaginative soul. We love suggestion and not hard facts.

— John F. Carlson

My dear, beautiful and imaginative things can be destroyed. Beauty and imagination cannot.

— Alan Moore

Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson