Best 1115 quotes in «imagine quotes» category

And history`s fingers never relax their grip, never leave us unmolested, can touch us even when we would never imagine their presence.

And the sexes eyeing each other uneasily, for nothing is easier for a teenager to imagine than rejection.

Andy Warhol says everyone will be famous for 15 minutes in the future, but even he couldn't have imagine today's fame is due to whom you sleep with.

An ideal movie would be, like - to get this to happen, I have to work so much harder - but imagine Denzel Washington, Laurence Fishburne, Jamie Foxx, Eddie Murphy... Who else? Donald Faison. Directed by Steven Spielberg. That would be awesome.

An imaginary perfection is automatically at the same level as I who imagine it neither higher nor lower.

Anti-utopianism continues to suffuse our culture...Today few imagine that society can be fundamentally improved, and those who do are seen as at best deluded, at worst threatening.

Anxiety and fear are cousins but not twins. Fear sees a threat. Anxiety imagines one.

Anybody can do anything that he imagines.

Any company that cannot imagine the future won't be around to enjoy it.

Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.

A pessimist is a person who is always right but doesn't get any enjoyment out of it, while an optimist, is one who imagines that the future is uncertain. It is a duty to be an optimist, because if you imagine that the future is uncertain, then you mu

Anything you can imagine is probably true. And the worst you can imagine is probably worth money.

A person who cannot imagine the future is a person who cannot contemplate the results of his actions. Some are thus paralyzed into inaction.

Anything you can imagine you can make real.

A poem is a place where the conditions of beyondness and withinness are made palpable, where to imagine is to feel what it is to be.  It allows us to have the life we are denied because we are too busy living.  Even more paradoxically, poetry permits us to live in ourselves as if we were just out of reach of ourselves.

Aquarium fishes even if they only imagine going to a lake, the windows of that aquarium will become thinner than before.

Are there sexual fetishes that involve books? There must be. I try not to imagine how they might work.

Are we allowed to sing? I imagine that at times, it might improve the tone of the debate.

Architectural and product designs have a narrative capacity - you can start to tell a story about them and imagine a lot of things.

As a playwright, I imagine that in one fashion or another I've been influenced by every single play I've ever experienced.

As an instrument of planetary home repair, it is hard to imagine anything as safe as a tree.

As much as being in a rock band can be really glamorous and exciting - and it can be a lot of things that people imagine it to be - if you just live that lifestyle, you're gonna burn out really quickly.

As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.

As he thought of it, though, he could not imagine what “just living” might actually be. He had never done it in his life. But he wanted to do it anyway.

As far as all of our identities are dependent on how other people imagine us we are all making ourselves and each other up all the time

As I wouldn't wear a costume, I couldn't imagine him wanting to wear one. And seeing that the greater part of my wardrobe is black (It's a sensible colour. It goes with anything. Well, anything black)[...].

a struggle with shyness is in every actor more than anyone can imagine.

As writers, it is our job not only to imagine, but to witness.

As you get older your willingness to tell more of the truth is awakened and you don't have to think about it or imagine it because now you know this to be true.

As we learn to bow, we discover that the heart holds more freedom and compassion than we could imagine.

As you can imagine this is a very emotional moment for me because Dave promised me many times that I was the only woman he would ever cheat on.

As you can imagine, with Hillary Clinton being here, security is very tight. The Secret Service has been here all day sweeping the halls, the offices, the hard drives... It's tight.

A thought experiment courtesy of the Stoics. If you are tired of everything you possess, imagine that you have lost all these things.

At first, writing for The New Yorker was very scary to me. I couldn't imagine anything that I would write in that typeface.

At the beginning, you are 20 and you can just imagine... don't get me wrong, but having money. Then you realise that it's not only about you and what you are doing but that you have to give back.

Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it.

A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it.

Bradman is a whole class above any batsman who has ever lived: if Archimedes, Newton and Gauss remain in the Hobbs class, I have to admit the possibility of a class above them, which I find difficult to imagine. They had better be moved from now on into the Bradman class.

Because we imagine, we can have invention and technology. It's actually play, not necessity, that is the mother of invention.

Being here, it is just impossible to imagine what that was like, when the tsunami hit.

Because when you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worth while.

Bottled water costs about 2000 times more than tap water. Can you imagine paying 2000 times the price of anything else? How about a $ 10,000 sandwich?

But, say you, surely there is nothing easier than for me to imagine trees, for instance, in a park [. . .] and nobody by to perceive them. [...] The objects of sense exist only when they are perceived; the trees therefore are in the garden [. . .] no longer than while there is somebody by to perceive them.

Bullies generally were bullied and are hurting inside much more than you could ever imagine.

But, as I understand it, your God is a universal God; He is God on all suns and all planets. Surely, then, He must have universal form? Would it not be a staggering vanity to imagine that He can manifest Himself only in the form that is appropriate to this particular, not very important planet?

But nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.

But let us remember that we are dealing with infinities and indivisibles both of which transcend our finite understanding, the former on account of their magnitude, the latter because of their smallness.

Can you imagine a silence so desperate to be heard?

By delivering experience, novels can alter the stance we adopt toward news - not much, I'm sure, but they can make it a little more difficult for us to consign "other people" to our tidy boxes. Widening our imaginative life might - it's not hard to imagine - also develop our ability to contemplate counterfactuals and our capacity to speculate about how things might differ from how they're being represented.

By poeticizing love, we imagine in those we love virtues that they often do not possess; this then becomes the source of constant mistakes and constant distress.