Imaginative Quotes - Page 4

• I definitely go through periods where I'm in a particular mood, or there's a consistent imaginative context that I feel I'm in, and I'm drawn to certain things. I can sometimes feel it when I'm moving away from something that I was once interested in - an idea or an exploration of particular relationships. I go, 'Well, I think I've done that and I don't want to do it again.'

  Tom Hiddleston

  Moving, Thinking, Ideas

  "The Characters of Tom Hiddleston". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 22, 2015.

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• Ritual is the most primitive reflection of serious thought, a slow deposit, as it were, of people's imaginative insight into life.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Reflection, People, Serious

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• By delivering experience, novels can alter the stance we adopt toward news - not much, I'm sure, but they can make it a little more difficult for us to consign "other people" to our tidy boxes. Widening our imaginative life might - it's not hard to imagine - also develop our ability to contemplate counterfactuals and our capacity to speculate about how things might differ from how they're being represented.

  Zia Haider Rahman

  People, Imagine, Difficult

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers.

  G. M. Trevelyan

  Intellect, Evidence, Historian

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• As the worldly philosophers of the past affirmed, the goal of economics is to improve the way society functions. In The New Financial Order, Robert Shiller joins this proud tradition by directing his brilliant economic skills toward the creation of financial institutions designed to reduce the risks an unknown future visits on most members of our society and others. Shiller's imaginative and compelling analysis will appeal to all readers who share his passion for initiating not only a richer, but a better, century.

  Peter L. Bernstein

  Passion, Past, Order

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

  Michel Gondry

  Challenges, Typical, Elements

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• A lot of people ask, "What do you pull on in your own life from your character?" In all honesty, it's not something that really works that way for me. I tend to look at these things as an imaginative process and a challenge of imagination and empathy, to some degree. I get much more out of meeting people who have lived these lives than I do digging around in my own limited experiences.

  Edward Norton

  Honesty, Character, People

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• If in the sex scene you happen to be naked in front of a lot of other people you've just got to put that aside, in the same way that you have to put that aside in a fully-clothed intense dialogue scene because you're entering into that particular imaginative state of play.

  Geoffrey Rush

  Sex, Play, People

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

  John C. Reilly

  Crazy, People, World

  Source: www.gq.com

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• A relationship is an imaginative act, it's an act of creation. Someone said to me the other day that a relationship between a person and a kid is unconditional; but the relationship between adults, to each other, is conditional, in a sense. But that condition can be the best kind.

  Keanu Reeves

  Kids, Adults, Kind

  "Keanu Reeves Goes to The Lake House". Movie Web Interview, movieweb.com. June 15, 2006.

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• I think people have always loved things that are bigger than life, things that are imaginative.

  Stan Lee

  Thinking, People, Bigger Than Life

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. June 20, 2001.

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• Virtually every kid is exposed to giants and ogres and talking wolves, and so forth. And magic. And I think you never outgrow your love for those imaginative, fanciful, farfetched, fantastic characters and situations.

  Stan Lee

  Character, Kids, Thinking

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. June 20, 2001.

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• [Art] would have helped us survive in the Pleistocene - in the period, say, 1.6 million years ago until fairly recently. The kind of imaginative abilities that artists have and that we all have in the appreciation of art - to appreciate Jane Austen, the late quartets of Beethoven.

  Denis Dutton

  Appreciation, Art, Years

  Source: muse.jhu.edu

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• So far I had been travelling alone with my handbook and my Western Railway timetable: I was happiest finding my own way and did not require a liaison man. It had been my intention to stay on the train, without bothering about arriving anywhere: sight-seeing was a way of passing the time, but, as I had concluded in Istanbul, it was an activity very largely based on imaginative invention, like rehearsing your own play in stage sets from which all the actors had fled.

  Paul Theroux

  Men, Istanbul, Sight

  Paul Theroux (1976). “The great railway bazaar: by train through Asia”

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• The imaginative faculty of the soul must be fed with objects immense and eternal.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Soul, Feds, Faculty

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.231

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• 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.

  Janet Burroway

  What Matters, Practice, Prose

  "Janet Burroway talks about writing lives". The Chicago Manual of Style Interview, cmosshoptalk.com. April 4, 2014.

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• [My works are] an imitation of my own past and present and of my own creative vitality as I experience them in one particular instant of my emotional and imaginative life. . .

  Barbara Hepworth

  Past, Emotional, Creative

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• I believe that all literatures can have political uses and misuses. Sometimes politics can enhance, sometimes it can get in the way of imaginative literature. . . . I'm not sure one can be a creative writer and a politician -- not a "good" politician.

  Gayl Jones

  Believe, Creative, Political

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• I prefer poems that occupy an imaginative sphere. When I lived in Cincinnati, I was occasionally referred to as an "Ohio Poet;" this made me uneasy, not only because I think of myself as a generally American poet but also because I like to think I write out of the country of my own mind.

  Cate Marvin

  Country, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.redividerjournal.org

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• Sometimes I feel that the people I'm writing are more real to me than the people around me. When you take that imaginative leap, you're living so much in that world.

  Zoe Kazan

  Real, Writing, People

  "‘Ruby Sparks’ Writer/Star Zoe Kazan On the Personal Nature of Her Screenwriting Debut and Letting the Muse Speak to Her". Interview with Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. July 25, 2012.

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• What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not have existed in solitude : the aims of friendship , religion , science , and art .

  George Santayana

  Art, Men, Giving

  George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2013). “The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two”, p.84, MIT Press

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• To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Thinking, Fiction, Definitions

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2004). “The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination”, p.210, Shambhala Publications

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• In my actual imaginative contact with life, I am vastly more responsive to beauty than to horror - indeed, I never experience real cosmic horror except in infrequent nightmares. However, when I come to record my various imaginative experiences, I generally find that only the horror items have any uniqueness or originality. Others have seen the same beautiful things that I have seen, & have sung them more nobly.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Beautiful, Real, Records

  Letter to Elizabeth Toldridge (8 March 1929), in "Selected Letters II, 1925-1929" edited by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei, (pp. 316-317), 1968.

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• The life of reality is confused, disorderly, almost always without apparent purpose, whereas in the artist's imaginative life there is purpose. There is determination to give the tale, the song, the painting, form -- to make it true and real to the theme, not to life.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Song, Art, Determination

  Sherwood Anderson (1947). “The Sherwood Anderson reader”

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• The thrill of terror is passive, masochistic, and implicitly feminine. It is imaginative submission to overwhelming superior force.

  Camille Paglia

  Thrill, Feminine, Submission

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae”, p.339, Yale University Press

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