"You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist."

--

Source : Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. February 5, 2004.

Azar Nafisi

#Order Quotes #Imagination Quotes #Needs Quotes

“Fukushima is the most terrifying situation I can imagine,”
“Why is it that the hot chicks never can sing?”

Source : "Tommy Lee Hopes 'Rock Star' Finds Dangerous, Scary Singer" by Jennifer Vineyard, www.mtv.com. April 19, 2006.
“The more I read and watched about the meat industry, the more determined I became to keep meat out of my diet. The things I saw in slaughterhouse exposes made me feel sick and I refused to just ignore what I now knew.”
“Where a man can live, he can also live well.”
“Maybe I should disappear and not make anymore music. I mean, I think I'd take it really badly if I got slayed.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“When children have grieving parents it's also common for them to feel an obligation to cheer them up and make them happy.”
“when Christian theology becomes traditionalism and men fail to hold and use it as they do a living language, it becomes an obstacle, not a help to religious conviction. To the greatest of the early Fathers and the great scholastics theology was a language which, like all language, had a grammar and a vocabulary from the past, but which they used to express all the knowledge and experience of their own time as well.”
“There is a basket of fresh bread on your head, yet you go door to door asking for crusts.”

You may also like:

Anousheh Ansari
Engineer
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Activist
Hamid Dabashi
Professor
Marjane Satrapi
Novelist
Shahrnush Parsipur
Novelist
Shirin Ebadi
Lawyer
Simin Daneshvar
Novelist
Vladimir Nabokov
Novelist
Azadeh Moaveni
Journalist