Imaginative Quotes · Page 3

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

— Michael Bassey Johnson

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

— Alan Moore

The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble…

— Alfred North Whitehead

I think [kids] enjoy reading, but it's a different world now. There are a lot of competitors for the imaginative attention.

— David Duchovny

We certainly have at present the dismal situation that the most imaginative men are directed by a group, the top managers, who…

— Paul Goodman

I like the fact that kids are willing to be imaginative and go along with me when I'm telling strange tales.

— Margaret Haddix

Philosophy makes progress not by becoming more rigorous but by becoming more imaginative.

— Richard Rorty

It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

— Edgar Allan Poe

I flattered myself that I was rather empathetic, that I had rather good imaginative empathy. I've realized now that that was a…

— Decca Aitkenhead

Miss Caroline seemed unaware that the ragged, denim-shirted and floursack-skirted first grade, most of whom had chopped cotton and fed hogs from…

— Harper Lee

I come from theater, and doing period stuff is so whimsical and imaginative and so outside any frame of reference than I…

— Ginnifer Goodwin

I believe that nothing completely satisfies an imaginative writer but copious and continuous draughts of unmitigated praise, always provided it is accompanied…

— Frederick Locker-Lampson

The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest…

— G. M. Trevelyan

My dad, a mathematician, raised me to believe that mathematics is beautiful, so math is a part of my imaginative terrain. In…

— James Arthur

I have many books that I want to write; I'd like to think that I'll be around for another 20 years or…

— George R. R. Martin

“When a Wanderess has been caged, or perched with her wings clipped, She lives like a Stoic, She lives most heroic, smiling…

— Roman Payne

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

Words in prose ought to express the intended meaning; if they attract attention to themselves, it is a fault; in the very…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A lot of people ask, "What do you pull on in your own life from your character?" In all honesty, it's not…

— Edward Norton

Leibniz accepted the argument that there must be indestructible simple entities if there is to be a complex world, but Epicurean morals…

— Catherine Wilson

One must search diligently to find laudatory comments on education (other than those pious platitudes which are fodder for commencement speeches). It…

— Edward Gibbon

I have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads me occasionally to make foolish and ill-considered remarks alleging that not everything…

— Philip Pullman

From being quite sure of himself and his future he becomes not at all sure. If he be an imaginative boy a…

— Sherwood Anderson

Above all we have to go beyond words and images and concepts. No imaginative vision or conceptual framework is adequate to the…

— Bede Griffiths

Like art, religion is an imaginative and creative effort to find a meaning and value in human life.

— Karen Armstrong

The Vores Third Quartet is a terrific piece that brings disparate components into harmony. . . it's celebratory, imaginative, touching, and fun.

— Richard Dyer

In the developing world, people often use quite basic technology. Many of the most imaginative schemes are using what we'd count as…

— Charles Leadbeater

If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present.

— Franz Boas

The dense and godly wear consistency as a flower, the imaginative fling it joyfully behind them.

— Stella Benson

Are we all living like this? Two lives, the ideal outer life and the inner imaginative life where we keep our secrets?

— Jeanette Winterson

Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie's The Wicked + The Divine is a warp into the middle of a wildly imaginative mythology and…

— Rick Remender

I was nine. I saw Orson Welles in 'Julius Caesar.' It was involving, emotional, imaginative. I've never forgotten it.

— Harold Prince

Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.

— John Hurt

As artists, I think that one of the good qualities we have is that we're imaginative. We're resourceful. We like challenges.

— Meredith Monk

As I get older, I become more imaginative and feel like I have maybe a shorter time to get a lot of…

— Sarah Brightman

The only imaginative prose writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past.

— George Orwell

Men can never understand the fear of everlasting punishment that fills the souls of women and children. The orthodox religion, as drawn…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I grew up in the suburbs among highly educated people, in a house crammed with books. It was a culture rich in…

— Stephen Hunter