Imaginative Quotes · Page 6

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

— Paul Goodman

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

— Harry Dean Stanton

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

— David Whyte

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

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

— Tom Riley

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

— David Duchovny

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

— Masego

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

— Bede Griffiths

The taste for worst-case scenarios reflects the need to master fear of what is felt to be uncontrollable. It also expresses an…

— Susan Sontag

A basic language-literacy of Nature is falling from us. And what is being lost along with this literacy is something perhaps even…

— Robert Macfarlane

Of all the arts the living of a life is perhaps the greatest; to live every moment of life with the same…

— Kathleen Raine

I took to it very quickly. I'm very imaginative anyway, and it just set off that part of my brain. It made…

— Dennis Haysbert

We have an education and business culture that tends to reward quick factual answers over imaginative inquiry. Questioning isn’t encouraged—it is barely…

— Warren Berger

My home is such a powerfully imaginative place that the space is almost irrelevant. I think the house I live at on…

— Toni Morrison

I have a personal definition of cartooning, which is, simply, "imaginative drawing." Anything you're drawing that is not in front of you…

— Jim Woodring

The cliché is dead poetry. English, being the language of an imaginative race, abounds in clichés, so that English literature is always…

— Gerald Brenan

Even the most inspired verse, which boasts not without a relative justification to be immortal, becomes in the course of ages a…

— George Santayana

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

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

— Alan Lightman

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

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

— Catherine Wilson

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

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

— C. V. Wedgwood

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

— Edgar Allan Poe

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

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

“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

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

— Northrop Frye

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

— Michael Bassey Johnson

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

— Petra Kelly

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

— Alan Moore

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

— John F. Carlson

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

— Helen Vendler

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

What matters is not publication or success (success is bad for your prose) but the practice of the imaginative act. Our damaged…

— Janet Burroway

Sometimes I feel that the people I'm writing are more real to me than the people around me. When you take that…

— Zoe Kazan

“I do not think that life has any joy to offer so complete, so soul-filling as that which comes upon the imaginative…

— Arthur Conan Doyle