Imaginative Quotes - Page 9

• The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none left over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Spiritual, Science, Men

  "The Most of Malcolm Muggeridge".

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• The actor shouldn't edit themselves or be anxious. And the actors that I admire are always the ones who are inventive and their imaginative life in free-willing. It's a director's job to go, "No here, don't do that, go there."

  Ralph Fiennes

  Jobs, Directors, Actors

  "Ralph Fiennes Talks THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL, Collaborating with Wes Anderson, If He Will Direct More Shakespeare, and More in Berlin". Interview, collider.com. February 10, 2014.

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• [Richard Crossley's] previous bird guide, for ID'ing Eastern birds, is the most imaginative, original attempt to re-envision the birding guide and set his approach apart from that of Sibley, Kaufman, Peterson, Nat'l Geo, and the other bibles in the field.

  James Wolcott

  Bird, Fields, Guides

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• Science-fiction ... can be defined as: Imaginative extrapolation of true natural phenomena, existing now, or likely to exist in the future.

  Hugo Gernsback

  Fiction, Natural, Defined

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• Nick Yablon ranges widely, from log cabins to skyscrapers and from Tocqueville to pulp fiction. He combines imaginative research with probing interpretation. Untimely Ruins offers fresh and challenging insights about the American built environment on nearly every page.

  T. J. Jackson Lears

  Challenges, Log Cabins, Fiction

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• In art the Greeks were the children of the Egyptians. The day may yet come when we shall do justice to the high powers of that mysterious and imaginative people.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Art, Children, Justice

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.1154, Delphi Classics

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• I should dread to disfigure the beautiful ideal of the memories of illustrious persons with incongruous features, and to sully the imaginative purity of classical works with gross and trivial recollections.

  William Wordsworth

  Beautiful, Memories, Purity

  William Wordsworth, Robert Burns (1816). “A letter to a friend of Robert Burns occasioned by an intended republication of the account of the life of Burns, by dr. Currie [in The works of Robert Burns].”, p.18

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• But what is now encompassed by the one word (“school”) are two very different kinds of institutions that, in function, finance and intention, serve entirely different roles. Both are needed for our nation’s governance. But children in one set of schools are educated to be governors; children in the other set of schools are trained for being governed. The former are given the imaginative range to mobilize ideas for economic growth; the latter are provided with the discipline to do the narrow tasks the first group will prescribe.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Children, School, Ideas

  Jonathan Kozol (2012). “Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools”, p.212, Broadway Books

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

  Paul Harding

  Powerful, Facts, Truth Is

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• A person of mature years and ripe development, who is expecting nothing from literature but the corroboration and renewal of past ideas, may find satisfaction in a lucidity so complete as to occasion no imaginative excitement, but young and ambitious students are not content with it. They seek the excitement because they are capable of the growth that it accompanies.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Book, Reading, Past

  Charles Horton Cooley (2017). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.308, Routledge

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• The religions of the world are the ejaculations of a few imaginative men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Religious, Men, Ejaculation

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.463, Library of America

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• Religions are not imaginative, not poetic, not soulful. On the contrary, they are parochial, small-minded, niggardly with the human imagination, precisely where science is generous.

  Richard Dawkins

  Imagination, Religion, Poetic

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• I think of feminism as a socially just and imaginative world.

  Suheir Hammad

  Thinking, Feminism, World

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• People cannot stand the saddest truth I know about the very nature of reading and writing imaginative literature, which is that poetry does not teach us how to talk to other people: it teaches us how to talk to ourselves. What I'm desperately trying to do is to get students to talk to themselves as though they are indeed themselves, and not someone else.

  Harold Bloom

  Reading, Writing, People

  "Falstaff for our times". www.theguardian.com. March 5, 1999.

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• 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.

  Julian Barnes

  Book, Reading, Discovery

  "Julian Barnes: my life as a bibliophile" by Julian Barnes, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2012.

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• I was a very religious child - I went to synagogue at least once, sometimes twice, a day. And I remember my religiousness as good - I think religion is good for children, especially educated children, because it allows for imagination, a whole imaginative world apart from the practical world.

  Yehuda Amichai

  Religious, Children, Thinking

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• I'm not good at standing on platforms and persuading people to my political point of view. Nor would I seek to. My gift is completely different. It's for presenting an imaginative version of the world which I hope people would recognize and be affected by.

  David Hare

  Views, People, Political

  "New Again: David Hare". Interview with Kathleen Tynan, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 29, 2015.

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• 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.

  Dan Chaon

  Mean, Perspective, Empathy

  Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. February 15, 2012.

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• I like the fact that kids are willing to be imaginative and go along with me when I'm telling strange tales.

  Margaret Haddix

  Kids, Facts, Strange

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• The science fiction world has a lot of people doing seriously imaginative thinking.

  Paul Krugman

  Thinking, People, Fiction

  "Economist Paul Krugman Is a Hard-Core Science Fiction Fan". "Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy" Interview, www.wired.com. May 30, 2012.

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• The imaginative leap for me of writing for women is no more difficult than the one of writing for men. I've always wanted to have women well represented in the work that I've done because I've always been around them and around the way they look at the world.

  Anthony Minghella

  Writing, Men, Done

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• One does not go to the theater to see life and nature; one goes to see the particular way in which life and nature happen to look to a cultivated, imaginative and entertaining man who happens, in turn, to be a playwright.

  George Jean Nathan

  Men, Doe, Looks

  George Jean Nathan (1972). “The Critic and the Drama”, p.55, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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• It is imperative when flying coach that you restrain any tendency toward the vividly imaginative. For although it may momentarily appear to be the case, it is not at all likely that the cabin is entirely inhabited by crying babies smoking inexpensive domestic cigars.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Baby, Smoking, Flying

  Fran Lebowitz (1994). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, Vintage

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• What matters is the imaginative truth.

  Edna O'Brien

  What Matters, Matter

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• Cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music. And cooking draws upon your every talent--science, mathematics, energy, history, experience--and the more experience you have, the less likely are your experiments to end in drivel and disaster. The more you know, the more you can create.

  Julia Child

  Creativity, Drawing, Creative

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