Imaginative Quotes · Page 3

So many plays with magic in them that would be a terrific invitation to an imaginative animation team.

— Kenneth Branagh

We should all know this: that listening, not talking, is the gifted and great role, and the imaginative role.

— Brenda Ueland

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

The nude does not simply represent the body, but relates it, by analogy, to all structures that have become part of our…

— Kenneth Clark

I love the virtuosity and imaginative chutzpah of 'Da Vinci's Demons,' and not just because my boyfriend is in it!

— Hattie Morahan

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

— Camille Paglia

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

— Anonymous

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

— Cyril Norman Hinshelwood

And it’s only by going nowhere - by sitting still or letting my mind relax - that I find that the thoughts…

— Pico Iyer

One of the sad realities today is that very few people, especially young people, read books. Unless we can find imaginative ways…

— Nelson Mandela

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

In art the Greeks were the children of the Egyptians. The day may yet come when we shall do justice to the…

— Benjamin Disraeli

It's always been the case that politicians want different things from children than good educators do. Good educators want imaginative, exploratory beings,…

— David Almond

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

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

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

“Bonnie saw ropes hanging loose, poles falling away, tree-tops sinking beneath her. As they rose, the sun rose with them. Its warmth…

— Pauline Fisk

While the Passover narrative [in Exodus] energizes Israel's imagination toward justice, Israel's hard work of implementation of that imaginative scenario was done…

— Walter Brueggemann

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

— Sherwood Anderson

I'm interested in history because it's a discipline that requires a lot of effort from the imagination. You need to put in…

— Sarnath Banerjee

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

The effect, if not the prime office, of criticism is to make our absorption and our enjoyment of the things that feed…

— Henry James

When faced with the inevitable, you always have a choice… As I learned during my liberal arts education, any symbol can have,…

— Margaret Atwood

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

We are all of us imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire.

— George Eliot

The Imaginative Child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization

— L. Frank Baum

A culture is as rich and capable of surviving as it has imaginative artists.

— L. Ron Hubbard

The real use of imaginative reading is precisely to suspend one's mind in the workings of another sensibility.

— Guy Davenport

“[...] imaginative literature situates itself somewhere between truth and meaning [...]”

— Harold Bloom

The science fiction world has a lot of people doing seriously imaginative thinking.

— Paul Krugman

That instinct for human character that is perhaps inherent in an imaginative writer.

— Graham Greene

It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally…

— Northrop Frye

Sightseeing was ... based on imaginative invention, like rehearsing your own play in stage sets from which all the actors had fled.

— Paul Theroux

Science is competitive, aggressive, demanding. It is also imaginative, inspiring, uplifting.

— Vera Rubin

Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.

— Walter Lippmann

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

— Patton Oswalt

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

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

— Ridley Scott