Imagine famous quotes

To be an American (unlike being English or French or whatever) is precisely to imagine a destiny rather than to inherit one; since we have always been, insofar as we are Americans at all, inhabitants of myth rather than history.
-- Leslie Fiedler

#Destiny #America #Imagine

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.
-- Lewis H. Lapham

#Culture #Today #Imagine

Whenever I'm sad I just imagine if babies were born with mustaches.
-- Liam Payne

#Baby #Mustache #Imagine

I can't remember a time when I wasn't acting, so I can't imagine what I would do if I stopped now.
-- Lillian Gish

#Acting #Remember #Imagine

I can't imagine a sweeter agony, having him so close.
-- Lisa Kleypas

#Agony #Imagine

Do not imagine that mathematics is harsh and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealisation of common sense.
-- Lord Kelvin

#Common Sense #Imagine #Mathematics

Why are you weeping ? Did you imagine that I was immortal ?
-- Louis XIV

#Imagine #Immortal #Last Words

We cannot create what we can't imagine.
-- Lucille Clifton

#Imagine

Imagine the marvels we would experience if we believed in the things in which we don't believe.
-- Luis Fernando Verissimo

#Believe #Imagine

Everything comes to nothing in the end, I suppose. Or at least, nothing happens exactly the way we imagine it.
-- Luke Davies

#Way #Imagine #Ends

I grew up in a house that had a whole lot of trouble. As much trouble as you could imagine.
-- Lynda Barry

#House #Trouble #Imagine

I'm not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably get it published.
-- Lynn Abbey

#Stories #Fantasy #Imagine

I imagine there are things I wouldn't do, but I haven't been offered those recently either.
-- M. Emmet Walsh

#Imagine

I can't imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father.
-- Madeleine Albright

#Father #Imagine #Raised

It was because a great-looking man with no apparent mental defects found her attractive. Imagine feeling so buoyant over something so juvenile.
-- Maggie Shayne

#Men #Feelings #Imagine

Right now, it's hard to imagine that it is raining anywhere in the world.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Rain #World #Imagine

I think of it often and imagine the scene clearly. Even if they come to kill me, I will tell them what they are trying to do is wrong, that education is our basic right.
-- Malala Yousafzai

#Thinking #Trying #Imagine

I imagine that one of the biggest troubles with colleges is there are too many distractions, too much panty-raiding, fraternities, and boola-boola and all of that.
-- Malcolm X

#College #Too Much #Imagine

It is hard for me to imagine retiring at 65 and spending the next quarter century not working. I expect to be working, doing something productive and fulfilling.
-- Marco Rubio

#Dream #Next #Imagine

Imagine that Christianity is about loving God,
-- Marcus Borg

#Imagine #Christianity #Loving God

Those who imagine that a politician would make a better figurehead than a hereditary monarch might perhaps make the acquaintance of more politicians.
-- Margaret Thatcher

#Might #Imagine #Politician

We can only know what we can truly imagine. Finally what we see comes from ourselves.
-- Marge Piercy

#Imagine #Utopia

It is not so easy to do good as those who have never attempted it may imagine.
-- Maria Edgeworth

#May #Imagine #Easy

Imagine the most outrageously positive possibility for your life, claim it, and consider it done.
-- Marianne Williamson

#Done #Imagine #Possibility

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

#Struggle #Actors #Imagine

A little too much anger, too often or at the wrong time, can destroy more than you would ever imagine.
-- Marilynne Robinson

#Too Much #Littles #Imagine

I'm not really part of that 'L.A. thing' or that celebrity culture. I'm more like someone who observes it, and I can't ever imagine being like that.
-- Marina and the Diamonds

#Culture #Imagine #Celebrity Culture

I could imagine, some number of years from now, starting my own company. But not yet. Not for a while.
-- Marissa Mayer

#Numbers #Years #Imagine

Imagine there was a cure, but finding it would cost you everything. It would completely ruin your life. What would you do?
-- Marissa Meyer

#Ruins #Cost #Imagine

It's hard for me to imagine why a church that has younger members wouldn't have a blog component.
-- Mark Batterson

#Church #Imagine #Members

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.
-- Mark Strand

#Busy #Imagine #Permit

I always say the only limitations are in your mind, and if you don't buy into those limits, you can do a helluva lot more than you imagine.
-- Marshall Ulrich

#Mind #Limits #Imagine

Imagine what you'd do if it absolutely didn't matter what people thought of you. Got it? Good. Never go back.
-- Martha Beck

#People #Matter #Imagine

The most reliable sign, the most universal behavior of unscrupulous people is not directed, as one might imagine, at our fearfulness. It is, perversely, an appeal to our sympathy.
-- Martha Stout

#People #Might #Imagine

I have learned to imagine an invisible sign around each person’s neck that says ‘Make me feel important,
-- Mary Kay Ash

#Important #Necks #Imagine

Said the river: imagine everything you can imagine, then keep on going.
-- Mary Oliver

#Rivers #Imagine #Said

Don't ask for cash from sponsors, imagine what they want
-- Matt Prior

#Want #Cash #Imagine

Imagine what could be accomplished if only the human race would shed its humanity.
-- Max Brooks

#Race #Humanity #Imagine

A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true about himself and his environment.
-- Maxwell Maltz

#Environment #Imagine #Being True

Though I imagine in your case, trying not to fall just made you fall harder.
-- Meg Cabot

#Fall #Trying #Imagine

Most of us can't even begin to imagine.
-- Meg Whitman

#Imagine

Until you have kids, you can't imagine how much you could possibly love a human being.
-- Megan Fox

#Kids #Imagine #Humans

I like to imagine the "what ifs" of history.
-- Melanie Benjamin

#What If #Imagine

My music is very, very precise. It's very rigorous. The forms are much more intricate than you would imagine.
-- Meredith Monk

#Imagine #Form #Music Is

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.
-- Merrill Markoe

#Emotional #Moments #Imagine

Politicians live in little worlds of their own and imagine they are the universe.
-- Michael Foot

#Littles #World #Imagine

Frank Gehry for instance likes to imagine his buildings as sculptures. I like to imagine my sculptures as architectural.
-- Michael Heizer

#Sculpture #Likes #Imagine

If I am not elected, I imagine that I will ask Harvard to let me back.
-- Michael Ignatieff

#Imagine #Harvard #Let Me

I look at things and try to imagine what is possible and then hope to surpass those boundaries.
-- Michael Jackson

#Trying #Looks #Imagine

I cant really imagine life without Formula One,
-- Michael Schumacher

#Imagine #Formulas

I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like.
-- Michelangelo Antonioni

#Imagine #Politician #Sociologists

It's so nice to have sane friends. I imagine.
-- Michele Jaffe

#Nice #Imagine #Sane

Marlon once said to me about being an actor: Can you imagine going to work every day and pretending to be someone else?
-- Mike Medavoy

#Actors #Imagine #Pretending

Our dreams prove that to imagine - to dream about things that have not happened - is among mankind's deepest needs.
-- Milan Kundera

#Dream #Needs #Imagine

I will sometimes post tweets that are about a specific person or people, in which case I will imagine the people I am tweeting about to be my audience.
-- Mira Gonzalez

#People #Sometimes #Imagine

It seems an obvious thing to say, but you should not imagine that we Pakistanis are all potential terrorists, just as we should not imagine that you Americans are all undercover assassins.
-- Mohsin Hamid

#Assassins #Imagine #Should

If your sense of self is destabilised, to imagine being another becomes pretty easy.
-- Mohsin Hamid

#Self #Imagine #Easy

Every day online, people, especially young people who are not developmentally equipped to handle this, are so abused and humiliated that they can't imagine living to the next day, and some tragically don't. And there's nothing virtual about that.
-- Monica Denise Brown

#People #Next #Imagine

If you dream you've got to dream that it's going to happen. Remember that. If you dream you have to imagine that it will actually happen.
-- Morgan Freeman

#Dream #Remember #Imagine

One Direction's 3D movie has more shirtless moments than you can imagine
-- Morgan Spurlock

#One Direction #Imagine #Moments

If you want to do something you have to imagine it. If you don’t imagine it, it will never happen
-- Muhammad Yunus

#Want #Imagine

A world is to be fought for, sung, and built: Love must imagine the world.
-- Muriel Rukeyser

#World #Imagine

He used both hands when he made the bear. Imagine a bear proceeding from the hands of God.
-- N. Scott Momaday

#Hands #Bears #Imagine

Can you imagine how your life would be if you couldn't talk?
-- Naoki Higashida

#Would Be #Imagine

I think of myself as a musician and not a celebrity. Celebrity status is something you have to deliberately pursue - I couldn't imagine myself seeking that.
-- Natalie Merchant

#Thinking #Musician #Imagine

No, but it is something I really enjoy speaking about. You've got to do something with all the books you've read, so you might as well imagine you've optioned them.
-- Natasha Lyonne

#Book #Might #Imagine

I don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shakespeare being aware of the Oedipal complex when he wrote Hamlet. It would have been a disaster.
-- Nathalie Sarraute

#People #Imagine #Disaster

Opportunities will be available to you that you cannot imagine.
-- Neil Armstrong

#Opportunity #Imagine

Imagine a world in which we are all enlightened by objective truths rather than offended by them.
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson

#Objective Truth #World #Imagine

I had made a decision, although I hardly knew it yet. It's often that way with decisions, they're made in some hidden part of us and the awareness secretes itself slowly into that conscious part of us that imagines it decides.
-- Neil Jordan

#Decision #Way #Imagine

Men are a hundred times worse than you can imagine. We are thinking the worst, shallowest thoughts, all the time.
-- Neil Strauss

#Men #Thinking #Imagine

I can't imagine having a conversation about 'Celebrity Big Brother' in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
-- Niall Ferguson

#Brother #Massachusetts #Imagine

It used to be thought that our genes were historically immutable and that it was not possible to imagine a conversation between culture and genetics.
-- Nicholas A. Christakis

#Culture #Imagine #Genetics

One day you're going to learn something that can't be explained with science. And when that happens, your life's going to change in ways you can't imagine.
-- Nicholas Sparks

#One Day #Way #Imagine

Everything we do, I'd imagine, influences everything we will do.
-- Nick Flynn

#Influence #Imagine

The Internet shapes my life and work so completely that I couldn't imagine living without it.
-- Nicola Formichetti

#Shapes #Internet #Imagine

You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
-- Nikolai Gogol

#Stupid #World #Imagine

I try to write 'and it's all very funny' after each scene description so that the reader can imagine the movie in their head.
-- Noah Baumbach

#Writing #Trying #Imagine

I just want the future to happen faster. I can't imagine the future without robots.
-- Nolan Bushnell

#Robots #Want #Imagine

I can't imagine Joe DiMaggio was a better all-around player than Dale Murphy.
-- Nolan Ryan

#Player #Imagine #Murphy

Nothing in the world can one imagine beforehand,not the least thing,everything is made up of so many unique particulars that cannot be forseen.
-- Nostradamus

#Unique #World #Imagine

Allah says Jannah is awesome, imagine how awesome that is when the All-Knowing is calling it awesome
-- Nouman Ali Khan

#Knowing #Calling #Imagine

Imagine a part of the U.S.A., from which the U.S.A. started - where is the cradle of your history? This is Kosovo for Serbia.
-- Novak Djokovic

#Imagine #Cradle

Eventually there are going to be chips in brains. Imagine if you could just buy knowledge and download it into your head instead of having to learn it. Like in 'The Matrix.' Imagine all the years saved!
-- Olga Kurylenko

#Years #Brain #Imagine

I am the same on camera as I am off. I can't imagine being any other way.
-- Olivia

#Way #Cameras #Imagine

There's so much with my character in 'Dredd' that I identify with. She's my favorite character I think I've ever played. She's the most dynamic and fascinating woman that I could even imagine playing, so I love her. What I love about her is that her sensitivity is her greatest strength.
-- Olivia Thirlby

#Character #Thinking #Imagine

Anything you can imagine, you can create.
-- Oprah Winfrey

#Imagine

Keeping a journal will change your life in ways that you'd never imagine.
-- Oprah Winfrey

#Way #Changing Your Life #Imagine

I can't imagine I could have become the person I am now without books. Books became synonymous with freedom. They showed that you could open doors and walk through.
-- Oprah Winfrey

#Book #Doors #Imagine

If you seek what is honorable, what is good, what is the truth of your life, all the other things you could not imagine come as a matter of course.
-- Oprah Winfrey

#Honor #Matter #Imagine

I'm quite sensitive to women. I saw how my sister got treated by boyfriends. I read this thing that said when you are in a relationship with a woman, imagine how you would feel if you were her father. That's been my approach, for the most part.
-- Orlando Bloom

#Father #Saws #Imagine

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.
-- Orson Scott Card

#Done #Might #Imagine

It is misleading to imagine that we are developed in spite of our circumstances, for we are developed because of them. It is mastery in circumstances that is needed, not mastery over them.
-- Oswald Chambers

#Mastery #Imagine #Circumstances

My refrigerator is full of kale and greens. I can't imagine something greasy, or eating meat.
-- Pamela Anderson

#Kale #Eating Meat #Imagine

In the end it happens, in some way you couldn't imagine before.
-- Paolo Giordano

#Way #Imagine #Ends

If as a child I had written a story, the best story that I could imagine, I would have written as indeed is happening to me.
-- Paolo Maldini

#Children #Stories #Imagine

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

#Writing #Fruit #Imagine

He who knows nothing, loves nothing. He who can do nothing understands nothing. He who understands nothing is worthless. But he who understands also loves, notices, sees … The more knowledge is inherent in a thing, the greater the love.… Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.
-- Paracelsus

#Fruit #Imagine #Strawberries

Life is not what we live; it is what we imagine we are living.
-- Pascal Mercier

#Life Is #Imagine

I've had death threats, if you can imagine.
-- Pat Boone

#Imagine #Threat