Imagine Quotes

We've been human countless times and done everything you can imagine. So we've been planting all these negative seeds, and they're going to come up.

I cannot imagine life without books any more than I can imagine life without breathing.

Jeffrey Carver imagines wonders and allows us to share his vision.

He felt that the darkness was full of unimaginable horrors - and the trouble with unimaginable horrors was that they were only too easy to imagine.

Dedication: My thanks to the people who showed me that opera was stranger than I could imagine. I can best repay their kindness by not mentioning their names here.

I can't imagine a secular life, a spiritual life, an intellectual life, a physical life. I mean, we would be completely wrought with schizophrenia, wouldn't we?

I feel like we are at a time of great creativity if we choose to embrace it as such, if we choose to engage the will of our imaginations and imagine another way of being in the world.

Only imagine a man acting for one single day on the supposition that all his neighbors believe all that they profess, and act up to all that they believe!

What I look for in any character, good or bad, is whether I can hear him speak. If I can imagine him that clearly, then I can write about him.

Imagine what Masaccio or Leonardo would have done if they had an instrument with which they could point, push a button, and get an image.

I can't imagine just dusting my pants off and going about my life like, "Phew! I sure made it through a tough spot, now where am I headed?" I feel more of an obligation to be helpful.

I've done about every kind of fishing you can imagine, but I've never noodled. And the reason I've never noodled is because I don't want to get bit by a water moccasin. I'm just too afraid of snakes.

One can imagine a world without essays. It would be a little poorer, of course, like a world without chess, but one could live in it.

It's hard to imagine anyone interested in film not being a fan of Alfred Hitchcock because he's such a key influence on the entire history of cinema - it's hard to escape his shadow.

I don't want to say that the creativity would give out - I can't imagine what argument I would bring forward for that. But I think that there's something on the individual level that's a limitation.

If I grew up in a different background, I could see myself getting a gun and shooting an abortionist. That's my job, to imagine what could happen, what can make people go in different directions.

I'll write about California someday, I imagine, but I don't know when.

In a way, art has always been my way of problem-solving, of getting through situations, of finding my response to things, so to imagine doing something else makes me panic a little bit.

I think Senator Rubio is a very talented young man. But you can well imagine that I am kind of partial to governors.

When we accept small wonders, we qualify ourselves to imagine great wonders.

I was a fireman. I lived in the fire sta­tion for about a year. The pay wasn't so good. It was kind of like being in the army, or what I imagine that would be like.

Imagine how frustrating it is, being completely locked up and watching your family leave, your wife and children, and not being able to do anything about it.

I can't imagine directing from someone else's script.

I am 82 years old. I imagine that I will keep on writing as long as anyone wants to keep reading.

Reality is rarely what we imagine. Great and noble things do not always happen for great and noble reasons.

I couldnt imagine my life being any more successful than it is now.

Music was sort of an accident for me. I love to do it. I can't imagine doing anything else.

It was impossible to imagine the aloof, dignified, powerful High Lord living as, of all things, a slave.

So many people seem to imagine that because the actual tools of writing are easily accessible, it is less difficult than the other arts. This is entirely an illusion.

I cannot even imagine college. I'm white-knuckling it just letting my son go to kindergarten for eight hours a day.

No factions? A world in which no one knows who they are or where they fit? I can't even fathom it. I imagine only chaos and isolation.

I'm pretty afraid of death. People have told me that they're not afraid, but I certainly am. The things of the world matter to me. It's hard to imagine letting go.

I think I'm actually more vulnerable than people imagine.

I can't believe that OMON [Russia's riot police] would hit a girl. I simply can't imagine it.

Writers do not write what they know. They write what they can imagine.

It is a great disgrace to religion, to imagine that it is an enemy to mirth and cheerfulness, and a severe exacter of pensive looks and solemn faces.

Can't you just imagine digging up the King, begging him to sing about those heavenly mansions Jesus mentioned.

Imagine the word CANCEL being a huge rubber stamp in your mind. Stamp CANCEL on any self-defeating image you place in your head, and begin to think in a self-enhancing way.

I wish to be a cat. I like to imagine I was a cat in a past life.

I imagine there's an undercurrent of the impact of early religious teachings and my break from what I was taught and expected to perform if I wanted to be considered normal in my family of origin.

A senator got up today in Congress and called his fellow senators sons of wild jackasses. Now, if you think the senators were hot, imagine how the jackasses must feel.

I started writing short fiction very briefly, as I imagine is the case for some novelists.

I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting.

No maxim can be more pernicious than that which would teach us to consult the temper of the times, and to tell only so much as we imagine our contemporaries will be able to bear.

We imagine that the admiration of the works of celebrated men has become common, because the admiration of their names has become so.

Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with, as there are few giants or dwarfs.

Just try to imagine what it would be like to be 300 million years old.

I had discovered a terrible vulnerability I myself which I think of not as cowardliness but as an ability to imagine too much.

Imagine walking into a grocery there is a jar sitting there with a lid on it saying it's not carbon. That is ridiculous. It's an empty jar.

They whose guilt within their bosom lies, imagine every eye beholds their blame.