Imaginative Quotes

268 Imaginative quotes by 234 unique authors

I'm not good at standing on platforms and persuading people to my political point of view. Nor would I seek to. My gift is completely… — David Hare
It's actually hard for creative people to know themselves because the creative self is more complex than the non-creative self. The things that stand out… — Scott Barry Kaufman
What a rare joy it is to linger in the lucid, transcendent worlds of Jennifer Maier's poems. In taut, precise language and lapidary images, Now,… — Rick Hilles
Fiction may be, whatever else, an exercise in the capacity for imaginative love, or sympathy, or identification, — Marilynne Robinson
[The career a young man should choose should be] one that is most consonant with our dignity, one that is based on ideas of whose… — Karl Marx
Milton had a highly imaginative, Cowley a very fanciful mind. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy… — Michael Gove
I think it's too fast to say that all sci-fi ultimately winds up having some place in science. On the other hand, imaginative minds working… — Brian Greene
The thing that makes me happiest about Simpsons Illustrated are all the drawings that we get from readers. I wish we could print them all.… — Matt Groening
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the… — John Drinkwater
I was a very imaginative and theatrical child and wasn't afraid of being in front of a camera. — Kirsten Dunst
When I was little, I put on plays for my family at Sunday dinner, and I would direct them and have all my cousins, my… — Kirsten Dunst
Contrary to slanderous Eastern opinion, much of Iowa is not flat, but rolling hills country with a lot of timber, a handsome and imaginative landscape,… — Paul Engle
There's a challenge to playing these fantasy figures because they are fantasy figures. You have to enter into this sort of imaginative world of the… — Ralph Fiennes
Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort… — Zaha Hadid
Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work. — Khaled Hosseini
I'm not nearly smart enough or imaginative enough to tackle the novel form. Never happen. — Mary Karr
God is only a great imaginative experience. — D. H. Lawrence
Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible. — Walter Lippmann
For many imaginative writers, working for the press is a fact of their life. But it's best not to like it too much. — Hilary Mantel
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
Just in relation to women, it's not that huge an imaginative leap to see the connection between the Taliban and the Catholic Church. — Peter Mullan
As much as I know people love the method and what you can draw out of yourself, a lot of acting is very imaginative. — Patton Oswalt
It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at… — Cesare Pavese

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