Imaginative Quotes

268 Imaginative quotes by 234 unique authors

It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic. — Edgar Allan Poe
I was nine. I saw Orson Welles in 'Julius Caesar.' It was involving, emotional, imaginative. I've never forgotten it. — Harold Prince
I'm a sci-fi girl. If I can have anything in life, I'd want tons of great science-fiction movies and stories. It's so progressive, beautiful, and… — Zoe Saldana
A clever, imaginative, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds. — Percy Ross
A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of… — George Santayana
The American idea is as promising, imaginative, and full of the unexpected as the land itself. The land represents freedom - the frontier, the ability… — Anna Deavere Smith
The U.S. is blessed with tremendously creative and imaginative law students at places like Chicago, Harvard, Columbia and Yale. — Cass Sunstein
It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how… — Gore Vidal
My own way of thinking is very conservative, very linear and not particularly imaginative, but if I look for things in different places, sometimes things… — Christopher Walken
Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning. — Alfred North Whitehead
Broadway purists may deplore the influx of movie-spinoff musicals in recent years, wishing someone would turn off the popcorn machine and let more imaginative brainstorms… — James Wolcott
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today. — Herman Wouk
Understanding capitalism is in some ways simple. At its best, capitalism rewards creators, makers and providers: the people and firms that create valuable things for… — Geoff Mulgan
I've never put Northern Ireland into a novel because it's not my territory. I come from the South, so my imaginative territory is very much… — Colm Toibin
My imagination? No, I don't think it's VIVID at all. On the contrary, it's not nearly potent enough. My poor imaginative faculties have always needed...extentions.… — Thomas Ligotti
1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on… — Kurt Vonnegut
Kay was older and bigger than the Wart, so that he was bound to win in the end, but he was more nervous and imaginative.… — T.H. White
After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing; when the reader creates emotion in their head, or the colors… — Jasper Fforde
They seemed nearer, not only mentally, but physically when they read ... Their chance was to make everything fine and finished and rich and imaginative;… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
And when I look at a history book and think of the imaginative effort it has taken to squeeze this oozing world between two boards… — Jeanette Winterson
We will destroy you,” the Flyboys droned. “You have no escape.” That was the most imaginative, threatening thing the whitecoats had programmed these ’droids to… — James Patterson
Thank heaven I don't inherit God from anybody! I am free to make mine up as I wish Him. He's kind and sympathetic and imaginative… — Jean Webster
We are all of us imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire. — George Eliot
From being quite sure of himself and his future he becomes not at all sure. If he be an imaginative boy a door is torn… — Sherwood Anderson
Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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