Imaginative Quotes

268 Imaginative quotes by 234 unique authors

Child of woe is wane and delicate... sensitive and on the quiet side, she loves the picnics and outings to the underground caverns... a solemn… — Charles Addams
SF is an opportunity to have an intense relationship with your own imagination. It's a kind of drive-by poetry, trashy and addictive; it's fun. After… — M. John Harrison
Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader.… — Margaret Mahy
Alan Rocke's Image and Reality does so many things vividly and convincingly: it shows how visual images led chemistry step by step to the reality… — Roald Hoffmann
Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative death… — Robert Hewison
In talking with scholars, I observe that they lost on ruder companions those years of boyhood which alone could give imaginative literature a religious and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
When faced with the inevitable, you always have a choice.... As I learned during my liberal arts education, any symbol can have, in the imaginative… — Margaret Atwood
We need imagination in programming, not sterility; creativity, not imitation; experimentation, not conformity; excellence, not mediocrity. Television is filled with creative, imaginative people. You must… — Newton N. Minow
Jesus of Nazareth could have chosen simply to express Himself in moral precepts; but like a great poet He chose the form of the parable,… — Dudley Nichols
The physical exercise and emotional stretching that children enjoy in unorganized play is more varied and less time-bound than is found in organized sports. Playtimeâ€”especially… — Richard Louv
The capacity for imaginative reflex, for moral risk in any human being is not limitless; on the contrary, it can be rapidly absorbed by fictions,… — George Steiner
I never had a fondness for gems or the extravagance of Harry Winston or Van Cleef & Arpels. I've always liked the more flamboyant, imaginative… — Iris Apfel
Beauty is no material thing. Beauty cannot be copied. Beauty is the sensation of pleasure on the mind of the seer. No thing is beautiful.… — Robert Henri
Imaginative truth is the most immediate way of presenting ultimate reality to a human being... ultimate reality is what we call God. — R. S. Thomas
Science is competitive, aggressive, demanding. It is also imaginative, inspiring, uplifting. — Vera Rubin
Progress is the exploration of our own error. Evolution is a consolidation of what have always begun as errors. And errors are of two kinds:… — Jacob Bronowski
It helps to regard soul as an active intelligence, forming and plotting each person's fate. Translators use "plot" to render the ancient Greek word mythos… — James Hillman
The clichÃ© is dead poetry. English, being the language of an imaginative race, abounds in clichÃ©s, so that English literature is always in danger of… — Gerald Brenan
For a scientist must indeed be freely imaginative and yet skeptical, creative and yet a critic. There is a sense in which he must be… — Peter Medawar
The other, the other aspect when I say I'm an actor is that as an actor you make this imaginative leap into being somebody else,… — Simon McBurney

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