Imaginative Quotes
268 Imaginative quotes by 234 unique authors
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Some people like to paint pictures, or do gardening, or build a boat in the basement. Other people get a tremendous pleasure out of the…
— Julia Child
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The only imaginative prose writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past.
— George Orwell
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In Western society, and particularly in American society, imagination is stulified from infancy. The imaginative child is discouraged and upbraided. He is told that the…
— Philip Wylie
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Utopias have their value -- nothing so wonderfully expands the imaginative horizons of human potentialities -- but as guides to conduct they can prove literally…
— Isaiah Berlin
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Filled with great advice, practical support, and steamy, imaginative suggestions for how to have an exciting, challenging, satisfying sex life.
— Unknown Author
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We must be both rational and intellectual, both analytic and imaginative, utilizing both statistics and insight.
— Unknown Author
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We should all know this: that listening, not talking, is the gifted and great role, and the imaginative role.
— Brenda Ueland
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We should all know this: that listening is not talking; [it] is the gifted and great role and the imaginative role. And the true listener…
— Brenda Ueland
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The best thing you can do for a song is to hear it on the radio and to imagine what it could mean to you…
— Ric Ocasek
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A poem needs imaginative rhythms as well as imaginative transformation of content.
— Helen Vendler
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Nature has mysterious infinities and imaginative power. It is always varying the productions it offers to us. The artist himself is one of nature's means.
— Paul Gauguin
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The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise.
— Herbert Croly
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But some of the nonsense was evil, since it concealed great crimes. For example, teachers of children in the United States of America wrote this…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Philosophy makes progress not by becoming more rigorous but by becoming more imaginative.
— Richard Rorty
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I believe that nothing completely satisfies an imaginative writer but copious and continuous draughts of unmitigated praise, always provided it is accompanied by a large…
— Frederick Locker-Lampson
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The central function of imaginative literature is to make you realize that other people act on moral convictions different from your own.
— William Empson
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Sightseeing was ... based on imaginative invention, like rehearsing your own play in stage sets from which all the actors had fled.
— Paul Theroux
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India was China's teacher in religion and imaginative literature, and the world's teacher in trignometry, quandratic equations, grammar, phonetics, Arabian Nights, animal fables, chess, as…
— Lin Yutang
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In the annals of science fiction, where dystopias rule the imaginative roost, Star Trek stood nearly alone in telling us that our future would be…
— Charles Shaar Murray
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By focusing on positive, healthy motivations and letting the more negative ones pass, you can purify the source of you imaginative power.
— Denis Waitley
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