I was encouraged to be imaginative and read, and it was a great childhood for a budding writer because I had the… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
I guess I've done a couple of boys-y movies and on the whole you get bracketed into things you've just done, so… — Kenneth Branagh Copy Share Image
I don't believe that you can possibly separate expression from thought in an imaginative work. The better a thing is expressed, the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The creative consequences of man's imaginative strivings may never make him whole; but they constitute his deepest consolations and his greatest glories. — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
Halloween's coming. Kids get very imaginative in my neighborhood. Last year, three kids showed up as Goldman Sachs executives and demanded 4.5… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Imaginative literature primarily pleases rather than teaches. It is much easier to be pleased than taught, but much harder to know why… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But to read all Scripture narratives as if they were eye-witness reports in a modern newspaper, and to ignore the poetic and… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
A relationship is an imaginative act, it's an act of creation. Someone said to me the other day that a relationship between… — Keanu Reeves Copy Share Image
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist for example Vincent Van Gogh, as it is of the great scientist, that… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
I always have done work on mythic relations since I started writing. I really want to be a novelist, or at least… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
By delivering experience, novels can alter the stance we adopt toward news - not much, I'm sure, but they can make it… — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share Image
Conversations...begin with the sort of imaginative engagement you get when you read a novel or watch a movie or attend to a… — Kwame Anthony Appiah Copy Share Image
Everyone will be compelled to see that which is optically true, is explicable in its own terms, is objective, before he can… — Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Copy Share Image
In my opinion, there is a huge lack of imaginative, unconventional music being created by artists today and what little there is,… — Adam Young Copy Share Image
The less you offer, the more readers are forced to bring the world to life with their own visual imaginings. I personally… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
A lot of kids are broken, and it's hard for them to believe in anything. But you have to have an imaginative… — Torii Hunter Copy Share Image
Ghetto-dwellers are the great fantasists. There was an extraordinary vibrancy there, an imaginative life. When you are that poor, all you've got… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
[John] Adams was the best and most colorful stylist among the Founders. Although [Tomas] Jefferson is widely regarded as the smoothest writer,… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
One of the sad realities today is that very few people, especially young people, read books. Unless we can find imaginative ways… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
They [the Hardscrabbles]never enjoyed it when adults playfully lied to them. The adults always think they're being amusing and imaginative, just like… — Ellen Potter Copy Share Image
In art the Greeks were the children of the Egyptians. The day may yet come when we shall do justice to the… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
And it’s only by going nowhere - by sitting still or letting my mind relax - that I find that the thoughts… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
It's an imaginative thing we do; it's about immersing oneself in one's imagination. If you're a novelist, you do it with pen… — Rupert Friend Copy Share Image
I'm an artistic kind of person. I draw. I've drawn my whole life. When you have an imaginative mind, I think the… — Vinny Guadagnino Copy Share Image
Once you become tagged as anything, it becomes difficult to shake it, because the less imaginative people in the business want you… — John C. Reilly Copy Share Image
“Scent is such a powerful tool of attraction, that if a woman has this tool perfectly tuned, she needs no other. I… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Beauty is no material thing. Beauty cannot be copied. Beauty is the sensation of pleasure on the mind of the seer. No… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
[Reanu Reeves] is a very imaginative actor. He can have this wonderful balance of humor and fear. He's got these skills to… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
Poetry, at all times, exercises two distinct functions: it may reveal, it may unveil to every eye, the ideal aspects of common… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“People cannot stand the saddest truth I know about the very nature of reading and writing imaginative literature, which is that poetry… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
When we hate a person, with an intimate, imaginative, human hatred, we enter into his mind, or sympathize -- any strong interest… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
The more we are proud that the Bethlehem story is plain enough to be understood by the shepherds, and almost by the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was 3 years old and Mary Poppins [1964] made an impression on me that was seismic, apparently. I fell into some… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
It's very difficult, I think for most writers, to carve out the time and the kind of imaginative space to do the… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
Education in British schools isn't good enough. It's not remotely imaginative enough. It lets down too many children, excluding them from society,… — Richard Rogers Copy Share Image
I think being an artist, or just being creative, or imaginative, or aware, where I think everybody starts out, and by about… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You can be imaginative, you have the technology to convert your vision, you have the freedom to write the kind of stories… — Kanika Dhillon Copy Share Image
An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than afterward, when we arrive atthe… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
![“[John] Adams was the best and most colorful stylist among the Founders. Although [Tomas] Jefferson is widely regarded as the smoothest writer, Adams is by far the most engaging and imaginative.” quote by Gordon S. Wood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/782/gordon-s-wood-13199_colorful_john-adams-was-the-best-and-most-colorfu_244163.jpg)
![“They [the Hardscrabbles]never enjoyed it when adults playfully lied to them. The adults always think they're being amusing and imaginative, just like children. But kids never lie playfully. They lie as if their lives depended on it.” quote by Ellen Potter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/08a/ellen-potter-22965_adults_they-the-hardscrabbles-never-enjoyed-it_2520569.jpg)
![“[Reanu Reeves] is a very imaginative actor. He can have this wonderful balance of humor and fear. He's got these skills to be entertaining but also quite terrifying.” quote by Nicolas Winding Refn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/cb6/nicolas-winding-refn-1480_actors_reanu-reeves-is-a-very-imaginative-actor_2412274.jpg)
![“I was 3 years old and Mary Poppins [1964] made an impression on me that was seismic, apparently. I fell into some kind of total creative, imaginative rapture over that movie that propelled this industry of Mary Poppins drawings, plays, performances - just an obsessive, creative reaction to it.” quote by Todd Haynes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5ee/todd-haynes-2626_creative_i-was-3-years-old-and-mary-poppins-1964_1785704.jpg)
