Imaginative Quotes

The U.S. is blessed with tremendously creative and imaginative law students at places like Chicago, Harvard, Columbia and Yale.

I was nine. I saw Orson Welles in 'Julius Caesar.' It was involving, emotional, imaginative. I've never forgotten it.

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

I'm alienated from this world because its weird and I don't want to be a part of it. I want to be part of the people that are more imaginative and crazy.

The American idea is as promising, imaginative, and full of the unexpected as the land itself. The land represents freedom - the frontier, the ability to make a new future with your own bare hands.

I love imaginative representations of a possible near-future, where you look at the technology and you think, "Well, yeah, that could really nearly be true." I like those kinds of backgrounds.

We should all know this: that listening, not talking, is the gifted and great role, and the imaginative role.

I like things that are weirdly imaginative and couldn't be real, but I also like stories that are recognizable and relatable.

When we hate a person, with an intimate, imaginative, human hatred, we enter into his mind, or sympathize -- any strong interest will arouse the imagination and create some sort of sympathy.

Imaginative writers often project their own monsters and meanings on basic facts.

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 happen.

Imaginative empathy is one of the great gifts that humans have, and it means that we can live more than one life. We can picture what it would be like from another perspective.

I always knew I wanted to write really imaginative fiction - fiction that was very different from my real life.

Its always been the case that politicians want different things from children than good educators do. Good educators want imaginative, exploratory beings, but politicians just want economic units.

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

In the old days people had far fewer channels in which to place their imaginative time. There's definitely more competition for time . . . and yet people seem to be reading [books] as much.

What matters is the imaginative truth.

Much of the visualizing is imaginative.

The only imaginative prose writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past.

[Opera] does not call so much for an imaginative ear as for an imaginative eye, an eye which can see beyond little absurdities toward great truths.

The cliché is dead poetry. English, being the language of an imaginative race, abounds in clichés, so that English literature is always in danger of being poisoned by its own secretions.

I come from theater, and doing period stuff is so whimsical and imaginative and so outside any frame of reference than I have ever had so I prefer that just in terms of fun factor.

[John] Adams was the best and most colorful stylist among the Founders. Although [Tomas] Jefferson is widely regarded as the smoothest writer, Adams is by far the most engaging and imaginative.

Baum (Writer of THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ) was a true educator, and those who read his Oz books are often made what they were not-imaginative , tolerant, alert to wonders, life.

That instinct for human character that is perhaps inherent in an imaginative writer.

For many imaginative writers, working for the press is a fact of their life. But it's best not to like it too much.

If plants could be credited with reasoning powers, we would marvel at the imaginative ways they bribe or ensnare other creatures to carry out their wishes.

Halloween's coming. Kids get very imaginative in my neighborhood. Last year, three kids showed up as Goldman Sachs executives and demanded 4.5 billion pieces of candy.

Are we all living like this? Two lives, the ideal outer life and the inner imaginative life where we keep our secrets?

Whether the poet is living or dead, they're part of our imaginative community.

...it was imaginative people who tended to lie. Lying required making stuff up, and only imaginative people were good at that.

Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic. And for this serious task of imaginative discovery and self-discovery, there is and remains one perfect symbol: the printed book.

Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work.

A culture is as rich and capable of surviving as it has imaginative artists.

I'm not nearly smart enough or imaginative enough to tackle the novel form. Never happen.

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. They're really imaginative. They show a lot of hard work.

We have invented the literature because the reality wasn't imaginative enough and we also wanted to be alone, at least for a while!

Every movie I do is challenging for me. There is some element of imaginative that you wouldn't have in a typical movie.

Imaginative literature primarily pleases rather than teaches. It is much easier to be pleased than taught, but much harder to know why one is pleased. Beauty is harder to analyze than truth.

Writing imaginative tales for the young is like sending coals to Newcastle. For coals.

[Reanu Reeves] is a very imaginative actor. He can have this wonderful balance of humor and fear. He's got these skills to be entertaining but also quite terrifying.

As much as I know people love the method and what you can draw out of yourself, a lot of acting is very imaginative.

Don't confine truth to fact. Imaginative truth is as powerful, and often enough, more so than fact.

Sightseeing was ... based on imaginative invention, like rehearsing your own play in stage sets from which all the actors had fled.

Just in relation to women, it's not that huge an imaginative leap to see the connection between the Taliban and the Catholic Church.

You either have an imaginative mind or you don't. All of my writing is God-given. I don't write my stories - they write themselves.

The Vores Third Quartet is a terrific piece that brings disparate components into harmony. . . it's celebratory, imaginative, touching, and fun.

Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie's The Wicked + The Divine is a warp into the middle of a wildly imaginative mythology and I'm itching to read more.

There are very few people who are creative and imaginative. Therefore, fiction is difficult for people to embrace.

Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life.