Imaginative Quotes · Page 4

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

— Joan Larkin

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

— Fairfax M. Cone

Without the imaginative insight which goes with creative literature, history cannot be intelligibly written.

— C. V. Wedgwood

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

— Bede Griffiths

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

— Edgar Allan Poe

Most of my music is reflective, imaginative. A lot of it is about how I'm going to feel in the future.

— Masego

But I'm not imaginative. I couldn't look into the future, like Star Wars or Robots or anything like that.

— Harry Dean Stanton

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 was a very religious child - I went to synagogue at least once, sometimes twice, a day. And I remember my…

— Yehuda Amichai

We know much of a writer by his style. An open and imperious disposition is shown in short sentences, direct and energetic.…

— Henry Ward Beecher

I have sometimes thought that his bursts of imaginative talk were fatal to his poetic gift. He squandered too much in the…

— Willa Cather

Before he has seen the whole, how unusually perceptive and imaginative the person must be to evolve the entire sequence by meditating…

— Minor White

If in the sex scene you happen to be naked in front of a lot of other people you've just got to…

— Geoffrey Rush

Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be…

— Russell Banks

We need – more urgently than architectural utopias, ingenious traffic disposal systems, or ecological programmes – to comprehend the nature of citizenship,…

— Jonathan Raban

We need some imaginative stimulus, some not impossible ideal such as may shape vague hope, and transform it into effective desire, to…

— Walter Pater

The traditional difficulty of balancing the mechanical with the imaginative schools of photography still operates. In schools of photography meaningful art education…

— Aaron Scharf

India was China's teacher in religion and imaginative literature, and the world's teacher in trignometry, quandratic equations, grammar, phonetics, Arabian Nights, animal…

— Lin Yutang

Over-scheduling their child's time, far from improving their lives, actually damages them. Scheduling an hour of free time strengthens their imagination. When…

— Julia Cameron

The capacity for imaginative reflex, for moral risk in any human being is not limitless; on the contrary, it can be rapidly…

— George Steiner

Progress is the exploration of our own error. Evolution is a consolidation of what have always begun as errors. And errors are…

— Jacob Bronowski

This is a major, wide-ranging, and comprehensive book. A philosophical investigation that is also a literary and historical study, Truth and Truthfulness…

— Alexander Nehamas

The imagination is the medium of appreciation in every field. The engagement of the imagination is the only thing that makes any…

— John Dewey

“Being the World’s Most Powerful Leader is Easier Than You Think One of my first executive orders was to impose a moratorium…

— Nancy Omeara

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

— Margaret Haddix

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

— David Duchovny

Oliver [Goldstick] is a very dynamic and imaginative writer, so the stage directions were visceral and very clearly written.

— Tom Riley

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

There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.

— David Whyte

Children are so creative and imaginative that they just bring you to life all over again.

— Moira Kelly

Science-fiction ... can be defined as: Imaginative extrapolation of true natural phenomena, existing now, or likely to exist in the future.

— Hugo Gernsback

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

— Richard Rorty

Imaginative writers often project their own monsters and meanings on basic facts.

— Christopher Bram

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

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

— Camille Paglia

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 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

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

— Brenda Ueland

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

— Hattie Morahan