Quotes About Imaginative

As for Congress, one imaginative polling firm found that brussels sprouts, head lice, cockroaches, colonoscopies, and gonorrhea were more popular than our elected representatives. Apparently, the American people realized that when you take it up the ass from a proctologist, at least it's for your own well-being. From Congress, not so much

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

I'm a hopeless romantic with a dirty mind.

I can describe my books as I seem them as American, imaginative, symbolic. My literary ancestors are two other Calvinists, Hawthorne, and Melville.

I'm with Milton and the Rolling Stones: I don't find the Devil an unsympathetic character. But in any case, my fiction is populated as much by people who do good as it is by those who do bad. I'm interested in imaginatively accommodating as much of the human as possible, for which you need both moral extremes and everything in between.

One of my first episodic jobs was on 'Twin Peaks,' if you can imagine that - one of the most unusual series ever.

It's fun to be creative and innovative and come up with something crazy. So I need people to work with who are not going to be afraid to take it to the left a bit.

I like something with a really great storyline, characters, and concept. I like doing things that are new and cutting edge.

Mind you, as a little boy, I always had other interests from most kids. I was not a boy who rubbed around baseball bats. I always had the storytelling instinct, even as a child. I was a very imaginative little boy.

I was a very strange child.

To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.

People that like to read are always a little fucked up.

Nature encourages us to think and feel in primal ways, to clear our heads and hearts of noise, to observe the found world closely, partly to see it for what it is and partly to absorb it as a threshold for imaginative understanding of the nature of nature and our place therein.

Quand un homme voit plus loin que les autres, c'est qu'il a quelque chose de dérangé dans sa cervelle

She had a pretty face, but her head was up in space.

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.

But of course there's no logic to San Francisco generally, a city built with putty and pipe cleaners, rubber cement and colored construction paper. It's the work of fairies, elves, happy children with new crayons

I just like being versatile, giving new styles and being creative.

You say: "I'm a blue sky thinker." Investor thinks: "You have no business model, and you don't know how to ship."

Through an experience that simultaneously involved my sensibility and intelligence, I realized early on that the imaginative life, however morbid it might seem, is the one that suits temperaments like mine. The fictions of my imagination (as it later developed) may weary me, but they don't hurt or humiliate. Impossible lovers can't cheat on us, or smile at us falsely, or be calculating in their caresses. They never forsake us, and they don't die or disappear. --The book of Disquiet

To be exotic, on the other hand, one had to think not just outside the box but outside the world of boxes.

I'm not an activist. I'm a fantasist.

Ryan Reynolds is an artistic man.

To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed.