Imagine famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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As writers, it is our job not only to imagine, but to witness.
-- Dani Shapiro -
Many patients imagine that they have tried everything. True, they have used many remedies, but they have never had the cause of their infirmity adjusted.
-- Daniel D. Palmer -
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
-- Daniel Dennett -
I find it hard to imagine how someone listens to my stuff, or views what I do, or me, or anything.
-- Danielle Dax -
St George won 11 premierships with one Raper, imagine how Canterbury will go with 13.
-- Darren Lockyer -
We have to allow ourselves to see what there is to see, and we have to imagine.
-- David Almond -
The first time I heard Ron Whitehead read I felt what I imagine those who heard Abraham Lincoln deliver The Gettysburg Address felt.
-- David Amram -
I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.
-- David Antin -
I would imagine that the more time you spend talking to another person, the more you're going to lie to them. So if you spend a lot of time with your relations, you're probably lying a lot to them.
-- David Chase -
So not only can you not imagine dying, you can't really imagine existence before you were born.
-- David Cronenberg -
Imagine working 20% smarter instead of 20% longer...Work-life balance and startup success at any stage aren't mutually exclusive. There are enough hours in the day to be effective and present.
-- David Cummings -
I trust you have seen the ocean. If you have, then you have witnessed the divine. How barren the ground is in comparison! If I could count the hours I have spent staring out at it! And yet those hours never feel lost. I cannot imagine how else I could refill them were I given a second chance.
-- David Ebershoff -
That everything is on fire, slow fire, and we're all less than a million breaths away from an oblivion more total than we can even bring ourselves to even try to imagine...
-- David Foster Wallace -
I’ve always thought that each person invented himself… that we are each a figment of our own imagination. And some people have a greater ability to imagine than others.
-- David Geffen -
I find it hard to imagine that future historians will see the Iraq War as a big plus in Bush's ledger, but we have to admit that we simply don't know for sure.
-- David Greenberg -
gravity, n. I imagine you saved my life. And then I wonder if I'm just imagining it.
-- David Levithan -
How amazing it is that friendships can become so full that you can't imagine what your life was like before them.
-- David Levithan -
Just imagine if in his inaugural address John F. Kennedy had said, 'Ask not what your country can, you know, do for you, but what you can, like, do for your country actually,
-- David McCullough -
Fukushima is the most terrifying situation I can imagine,
-- David Suzuki -
Imagine Jon Stewart if he gave a damn. He's like Howard Zinn after 12 beers.
-- David Swanson -
I have no regrets about launching Salon. For the life of me, I can't imagine doing anything else.
-- David Talbot -
Just imagine that you are the person you want to be.
-- David Viscott -
Daydream, imagine, and reflect. It’s the source of infinite creativity.
-- Deepak Chopra -
To say that I enjoyed writing... is like saying I enjoy having fingers and toes. It's difficult to imagine life without them.
-- Dennis Covington -
Mythology is a subjective truth. Every culture imagines life a certain way.
-- Devdutt Pattanaik -
Whatever you imagine, God is the opposite of that.
-- Dhul-Nun al-Misri -
I'll leave it to you, Sassenach," he said dryly, "to imagine what it feels like to arrive unexpectedly in the midst of a brothel, in possession of a verra large sausage.
-- Diana Gabaldon -
I don't know how you prepare for something like that. I cannot imagine living in a fishbowl like that. I don't live here so I don't know it will be that bad anyway because I live in Paris and we don't have that sort of phenomenon there. So I don't know, we'll see what happens.
-- Diane Kruger -
Depression - it falls into that small category of things like combat that, if you haven't been in it, you can say you can imagine it all you like. But it's truly different.
-- Dick Cavett -
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.
-- Donald Faison -
I did things I did not understand for reasons I could not begin to explain just to be in motion, to be trying to do something, change something in a world I wanted desperately to make over but could not imagine for myself.
-- Dorothy Allison -
Why do I even dare to think I could dream I could imagine I could hope?
-- Dylan Moran -
I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
-- e. e. cummings -
Imagine if Beethoven had a tape recorder. Then you'd know exactly what he meant. Maybe he meant 'Da da da da' instead of 'Boom boom boom boom!' Who knows?
-- Eddie Van Halen -
Imagine if investors in Wal-Mart really cared about bribery at that company's overseas operations or safety standards at its overseas manufacturing plants. If investors pulled their capital, corporate leaders would have to respond.
-- Eliot Spitzer -
Words are precious things meant to create, to imagine, to dream with.
-- Elizabeth Chandler -
After most deaths, I imagine, the awfulness lies in how everything’s changed….there’s a hole. It’s person-shaped and it follows you everywhere…. For us what was killing was how nothing had changed. We’d been waiting to be transformed, and now here we were, back in our old life.
-- Elizabeth McCracken -
I sort of make believe. That's why I like acting. You can create or imagine anything.
-- Elle Fanning -
We live at the level of our language. Whatever we can articulate we can imagine or understand or explore.
-- Ellen Gilchrist -
I have very poor eyesight, and I can't imagine a world without my glasses or contacts.
-- Ellen Hollman -
Yeah, people following me down the street and at the airport and all that. I can't imagine what it must be like for people who are, you know, actually famous.
-- Ellen Page -
I imagine therefore I belong and am free.
-- Emily Dickinson -
I always say nothing you can imagine is totally impossible. It might be unlikely, but that's as far as I'll go.
-- Emily Rodda -
Change for your own sake, if you must, not for what you imagine another will ask of you.
-- Emma Donoghue -
He's my favorite! He wrote and produced, and starred in and cast all of his movies! Can you imagine? I get really excited when I talk about Charlie Chaplin.
-- Emma Stone -
I used to imagine what it would be like to do what Jim Brown was doing. I used to imagine what it would be like to be like a Tony Dorsett. I used to imagine what it would be like to be like a Walter Payton. I was imagining Emmitt Smith doing exactly what they were doing.
-- Emmitt Smith -
I can't imagine how many first performances I've done, perhaps 500. Some of them have been very good, and some of course very bad.
-- Esa-Pekka Salonen -
I was always much too elated to imagine despair.
-- Eve Babitz -
I can't even say what my greatest fear is because I, I can't even imagine. Being without my family... I can't even say it because it makes me cry.
-- Faith Hill -
The most terrifying thing is sometimes not what we see, but rather what we are forced to imagine.
-- Félix J. Palma -
I couldn't imagine playing someone young now; it would be so boring
-- Francesca Annis -
One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
Fortunate persons hardly ever amend their ways: they always imagine that they are in the right when fortune upholds their bad conduct.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
We cannot possibly imagine the variety of contradictions in every heart.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
A man often imagines that he acts, when he is acted upon.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
There are no shortcuts in life - only those we imagine.
-- Frank Leahy -
I can't imagine a set of circumstances that would produce Chapter 11 for Eastern.
-- Frank Lorenzo -
Imagine a world without shadows. You cannot touch a shadow, but a world without them is a hard world, and flat.
-- Franny Billingsley -
You cannot imagine how it spoils one to have been a child prodigy.
-- Franz Liszt -
The totality of a record is usually beyond ones ability to imagine when you start working on it, but the component parts are, usually, fairly clear one way or another.
-- Fred Frith -
The proper response toward what we occasionally imagine to be democracy, methinks, is to retain one's self-respect by not participating in it.
-- Fred Reed -
It is now easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism.
-- Fredric Jameson -
The whole point of science is that most of it is uncertain. That's why science is exciting--because we don't know. Science is all about things we don't understand. The public, of course, imagines science is just a set of facts. But it's not. Science is a process of exploring, which is always partial. We explore, and we find out things that we understand. We find out things we thought we understood were wrong. That's how it makes progress.
-- Freeman Dyson -
I could not imagine that we should make much of an effort to preserve remainders of natural beauty in conquered Poland.
-- Fritz Todt -
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.
-- G. H. Hardy -
Infinities and indivisibles transcend our finite understanding, the former on account of their magnitude, the latter because of their smallness; Imagine what they are when combined.
-- Galileo Galilei -
It's quite difficult for me to imagine my life without chess.
-- Garry Kasparov -
Never before has the gap between what we can imagine and what we can accomplish been smaller.
-- Gary Hamel -
Any company that cannot imagine the future won't be around to enjoy it.
-- Gary Hamel -
For every person who can imagine a possibility there are tens of thousands who are stuck in the greased grooves of history.
-- Gary Hamel -
Can you imagine what you could do, if you did all that you can?
-- Gary Ryan -
The EU is not going to attack the United States. Supposedly, China or the EU was doing this on the UScan you imagine what the blowout would be?
-- Gay Mitchell -
I can’t imagine what it would be like to have had her company in my head—the comfort that would’ve brought.
-- Gayle Forman -
That's my job. To imagine harder than you can.
-- Genevieve Gorder -
What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.
-- George Bernard Shaw -
Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.
-- George Bernard Shaw -
A common fallacy: to imagine a measure will be easy because we have private motives for desiring it.
-- George Eliot -
The big bang, the most cataclysmic event we can imagine, on closer inspection appears finely orchestrated.
-- George Smoot -
The collapse of the global marketplace would be a traumatic event with unimaginable consequences. Yet I find it easier to imagine than the continuation of the present regime.
-- George Soros -
Religion is as necessary to reason as reason is to religion. The one cannot exist without the other. A reasoning being would lose his reason, in attempting to account for the great phenomena of nature, had he not a Supreme Being to refer to; and well has it been said, that if there had been no God, mankind would have been obliged to imagine one.
-- George Washington -
Imagine a future where we won't be living in the past. I'd be flipping birds like a chicken breast on a spatula.
-- George Watsky -
I can't imagine what possessed you to propose to me." "Well that will give you something to puzzle over any time you can't sleep.
-- Georgette Heyer -
Don't you dare call me arrogant!If ever I had any at all-which I deny!- how much could I possibly have left after having been ridden over rough-shod by you and Thomas, do you imagine?
-- Georgette Heyer -
It's hard to imagine a more potent sign of a weak, declining empire than having one's national 'credibility' depend upon periodically bombing other countries.
-- Glenn Greenwald -
Straight men just can't imagine the bliss of being in a relationship with someone who finds farting as funny as they do.
-- Graham Norton -
Even gang members imagine a future that doesnt include gangs.
-- Greg Boyle -
Niggas can say they pop molly, but do you really? I doubt it. I can't imagine Kanye popping a molly.
-- Gunplay -
Do not imagine you can exorcise what oppresses you in life by giving vent to it in art.
-- Gustave Flaubert -
I work out five days a week, I can't imagine not doing it.
-- Gwen Stefani -
For every individual who really is exceptional there are about fifty thousand who just imagine they are - until it's too late, and they find out they aren't after all.
-- Gwethalyn Graham -
We intend to make this world the most beautiful, glorious planet that any human being can imagine and, really, beyond anything any human being can imagine.
-- Hafsat Abiola -
The truth is rarely as dreadful or as terrifying as what one imagines.
-- Hallie Ephron -
When you imagine that if all these 9 billion people claim all these resources, then the earth will explode.
-- Hans Joachim Schellnhuber -
The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality.
-- Haruki Murakami
