Quotes of: Imaginative Keyword

I was honored at the awards ceremony. I didn’t get any recognition, but I was honored to be there. (Tickets were cheaper than I imagined!) 

This Book Has No Title

You poor dear! Imagine having to wear Mark’s trousers! He’s a lovely lad, but I wouldn’t wish that fate on anyone. God only knows who’s been in them!

Tyburn

Our dreams prove that to imagine - to dream about things that have not happened - is among mankind's deepest needs.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

There is no way out of the imagined order. When we break down our prison walls and run towards freedom, we are in fact running into the more spacious exercise yard of a bigger prison.

Unknown

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

And so, rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt by life.

Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination

She never imagined that at twenty years old she'd already be a widow in black. On the bright side, she was no longer married to Dario, but her future still looked grim.

Venice in the Moonlight

After the series, other series have entered the domain of analysis; they entered by the same door; they have been imagined in view of applications.

The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare

Equality and freedom are not luxuries to lightly cast aside. Without them, order cannot long endure before approaching depths beyond imagining.

V for Vendetta

The broadest possible exercise of imagination is the thing most conducive to human health, individual and global

When I Was a Child I Read Books

As Grams treaded water, she tapped my forehead. 'What's in here, Poppy, is scarier than anything you'll encounter in the depths of the ocean. An imagination is a powerful thing.

Welcome, Caller, This Is Chloe

Thank you," I said bravely, dropping the syllables cleanly, like marbles, and secretly full of the most pathetic pride imaginable. I had spoken to strangers.

Waiting for the Flood

He might as well plant an oak in a flowerpot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares!

Wuthering Heights

it is strange how custom can mould our tastes and ideas: many could not imagine the existence of happiness in a life of such complete exile from the world

Wuthering Heights

I have been happier in the past week than I ever imagined possible and it doesn't have a damn thing to do with the money. You're the real prize. The lottery was just a bonus.

Windfall

It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however little they acknowledge it, one later discovers that they were among the most powerful promoters of dec...

The Will to Power

It isn’t hard to find evil in this world. Evil is always more easily imagined than good, somehow.

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

I like make-up sex. My imagination is so much more powerful than reality that it’s just better when I make it up.

Xazaqazax

The true tragedy in most people’s lives is that they are far better than they imagine themselves to be and, as a result, end up being much less than they might be.

Zen Mentoring: Forty Meditations

The city's the best gallery I could imagine. I would never have to make a book and then present it to a gallery and let them decide if my work was nice enough to show it to people. I would control it directly with the public in the streets.

JR

In the context of general relativity, space almost is a substance. It can bend and twist and stretch, and probably the best way to think about space is to just kind of imagine a big piece of rubber that you can pull and twist and bend.

Alan Guth