Quotes of: Imaginative Keyword

A composition—and every work of art is one—is created in a wondrous interplay between imagination and reason, or between mind and reflection. For there will always be an element of chance in the creative process.

Sophie's World

Employing your imagination is the first step to the fulfillment of any dream.

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

A daily dose of daydreaming heals the heart, soothes the soul, and strengthens the imagination.

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

Genevieve hunched her shoulders against the storm of sound and fury and struggled to imagine a worse sort of hell. Widdershins, of course, seemed perfectly happy, but Widdershins was weird.

Thief's Covenant

We are limited only by our imagination and our will to act.

The Orbital Perspective: Lessons in Seeing the Big Picture from a Journey of 71 Million Miles

I'm the idea of the human imagination, which, when you think about it, is the only thing we can really be certain ISN'T imaginary.

Promethea, Vol. 5

One common cause of this mistake of preferring to imagine and admire a great ideal instead of beginning to do little deeds is our impatience with little baby steps, our lack of humility.

Prayer for Beginners

A man wreaks harm because he forgets to love peace. He kills because of self-blinded fear, that imagines no other protection.

Peril's Gate

The thought of a comedy with paid prostitutes always seemed so silly and purposeless, for a person hired by me could never take the place of my imagination of a 'cruel mistress'.

Psychopathia Sexualis: The Case Histories

Living is worth the effort if only because without life we could not read or imagine stories.

In Praise of Reading and Fiction: The Nobel Lecture

But, you know, I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints. Heroism and sanctity don't really appeal to me, I imagine. What interests me is being a man.

The Plague

We say God and the imagination are one . . . How high that highest candle lights the dark.

The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play

Few experiences are more satisfying than becoming someone we always imagined we could be.

Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road

We women have intuition," Barby said loftily. "I wouldn't expect you to understand. I can't imagine why there aren't more women detectives.

The Phantom Shark

Imagine, pretend, and play so you can become anyone you want to be. You don't need to be afraid.

Rise and Shine: A Tool for the Prevention of Childhood Sexual Abuse

Can you imagine how your life would be if you couldn't talk?

The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism

So come to the pond, or the river of your imagination, or the harbor of your longing, and put your lips to the world. And live your life.

Red Bird

Just because something is told as a story and that story is part legend or myth, or feat of imagination, does not mean there is no truth in it.

Tales of Terror from the Tunnel's Mouth

All books are coloring books, if you are in possession of a childlike imagination, and a box of markers.

This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks

If a building were shaped like a body, I’d imagine you’d exit out the rear.

This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks

Keep your wife happy by living in a slightly nicer house than your neighbor. And you can do this by living in a poorer neighborhood than you ever imagined.

This Book is Not FOR SALE