Quotes of: Imaginative Keyword

I don't think that my parents even imagined that I would be exposed to drugs. In those days, for some reason, it was not talked about, just like sex was not talked about.

Natalie Cole

It used to be thought that our genes were historically immutable and that it was not possible to imagine a conversation between culture and genetics.

Nicholas A. Christakis

I can't imagine having a conversation about 'Celebrity Big Brother' in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Niall Ferguson

The best way to show people true things is from a direction that they had not imagined the truth coming.

Neil Gaiman

I'm God. I will give you love and never hate you. I'll give you all the comforts you've ever imagined. Because I'm the God.

nugas

Believe in yourself up here and it will make you stronger than you could ever imagine.

Keeping the Moon

Who would have imagined a creature that has lived thousands of years would find itself short of time.

Only Human

A writer's age at the time of a work's composition is never irrelevant.

In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination

Some people write letters, in the library.

In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination

No one is thinking about you. They're thinking about themselves, just like you.

Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination

I couldn't imagine being a girl. The bullshit routine they had to go through just to get out the door consumed half of their lives.

Walking Disaster

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

Baruch Spinoza

No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination.

Anne Sullivan

I imagined that it might be awkward to talk to your wife about her performance, so going into it I was a little nervous. But doing it was actually a wonderfully inspiring experience.

Lasse Hallstrom

They are imaginary characters. But perhaps not solely the products of my imagination, since there are some aspects of the characters that relate to my own experience of a wide variety of people.

Margaret Mahy

Imagine a judicial nominee said 'my experience as a white man makes me better than a Latina woman.' Wouldn't they have to withdraw? New racism is no better than old racism.

Newt Gingrich

The impulse to write comes, I think, from a desire - perhaps a need - to give imaginative life to experience, to share it with the reader, not to cover up the truth but to deliver it obliquely.

Paul Theroux

But the same thing was true in the army. You slept in a barracks with all kinds of people of every nationality, every trade, every character and quality you can imagine, and that was a good experience.

Shelby Foote

I can't imagine Japanese food without dashi, a broth made with kelp and dried bonito flakes. It has the aroma of the sea, tinged with a subtle smokiness, and adds a very important, distinct flavor.

Nobu Matsuhisa

I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.

Daniel Boulud

I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got through that fairly early.

Howard Nemerov