Top 100 Can You Imagine Quotes
#1. Maybe these cards aren't such a great idea. Can you imagine if everyone had the power to mess with everyone else's lives? Chaos.'
But of course, this IS the problem. We already have that power over each other.
Nicola Yoon
#2. Can you imagine what it would do to a person, to know that they were standing between three people and that marrow-deep, desperate need?
Catherynne M Valente
#3. If babies held the same tendency toward self-criticism as adults, they might never learn to walk or talk. Can you imagine infants stomping, 'Aarggh! Screwed up again!' Fortunately, babies are free of self-criticism. They just keep practicing.
Dan Millman
#5. Can you imagine doing something in your life that will be fully satisfying and redeeming for your having tried to do it, whether you succeeded in it or failed, and that, correspondingly, would be fully shameful had you not tried to do it?
Padgett Powell
#6. 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
#7. Did you know that mako shark fetuses eat each other in the womb? ... Its true. Only cannibal fetuses survive to be born. Can you imagine if people were like that?
Laini Taylor
#8. Can you imagine a guy breaking into your car, and he steals your guitar case 'cause he thinks it's a guitar, and he gets it home and opens it up and there's a rake inside it, an electric toilet plunger and a dog skull? That actually happened.
Eugene Chadbourne
#9. No surgical tweaks. No Botox either. I think it is terrible, these girls in their late 20s injecting their faces and lips. One told me, If I kill my muscles now, I'll never get wrinkles. Can you imagine?
Salma Hayek
#10. What are you? Insane? I'm not interested in Ms. Preppy Uptight Sloan Ranger. Jeez. I'd get khaki between my teeth. Can you imagine? I've never been in khaki and I never want to see a woman out it. It scares me. (Dev)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#11. I loved being on the set with my stepfather. I loved the magic of movies. I went on the set of 'The Mod Squad' - I mean, can you imagine? Just walking into a living room and then walking behind the living room, and it's just flat. There's nothing I love more than being on a sound stage.
Jennifer Jason Leigh
#12. Can you imagine what will happen if just for one day the sun forgot to rise?
Debasish Mridha
#13. We are ever on the threshold of new journeys and new discoveries. Can you imagine the excitement of the Wright brothers on the morning of that first flight? The anticipation of Jonas Salk as he analyzed the data that demonstrated a way to prevent polio?
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#15. Can you imagine that Cuba and Europe's youth, who had forgotten about traditional music, who only thought of rock music, are now looking back towards their grandparents? That is a phenomenon.
Compay Segundo
#16. There is something really mysterious about lions. They could rip you apart if they wanted to, but at the same time they look so cuddly. Can you imagine what humans look like to animals? They must think we're so weird.
Lee Ryan
#17. Can you imagine going to bed with Kierkegaard? He'd never stop asking, 'Can I do this to you? Is this okay?
Jonathan Franzen
#18. Those Montana Indians were so tough that white people were scared of them.
Can you imagine a place where white people are scared of Indians and not the other way around?
That's Montana.
Sherman Alexie
#19. Did you know that I almost called the magazine Stag Party and the symbol was originally going to be a stag? I changed my mind just before we went to press, thank God. Somehow, it wouldn't have been the same. Can you imagine a chain of key clubs staffed by beautiful girls wearing antlers?
Hugh Hefner
#20. Barack wants to stop all children from working on the farm ... Can you imagine this? I just, I can't fathom that. Did you ever think we'd grow up in America and see something like that? Let me take it one step further. He wants to disallow the 4-H from training children to work on a farm.
John Raese
#21. I'll wager I would have screwed things up regardless. But ... can you imagine those poor bastards grappling their prey, leaping over the rails, swords in hand, screaming, 'Your cats! Give us all your gods-damned cats!
Scott Lynch
#22. I guess you can't estimate the speed of a teenage boy when he thinks he has a shot at sex. He never had a shot. But if he was that fast removing his pants, can you imagine how quick the sex would have been?
Mary J. Williams
#23. Relax, having kids is years away. But can you imagine? Your brains, my charm, our collective good looks ... then add in the usual physical abilities dhampirs get.
It's really not even fair to everyone else.
Richelle Mead
#24. Can you imagine Simon as a kid? His imaginary friends probably never wanted to play with him.
Paula Abdul
#25. Can you imagine telling a woman she can't vote!? The women I hang out with would be going home with parts of your anatomy swinging from their rearview.
Henry Rollins
#26. Who the hell knows where they get these farkakte names for their kids. One of Rita's friends named her son Bodhisattva. Bodhisattva Rosenblatt. Can you imagine? Rita always says, 'It's no big deal. They call him 'Bodi', is all.' Please. And the newspapers say I'm abusive to children?
Susan Jane Gilman
#27. Can you imagine young people nowadays making a study of trigonometry for the fun of it? Well I did.
Clyde Tombaugh
#28. But you are a charming and beautiful dunces, madame. And," he continued in French, "a charming and beautiful woman
can get away with murder. Can you imagine that any man here would prosecute you for assassinating our language?
Loretta Chase
#29. I spent 50 years in the NBA. Can you imagine doing something that you love the most in the entire world and doing it for your entire life and, besides that, getting a pile of money for it? It's unbelievable. I'm the luckiest guy in the world. And I know it.
Don Nelson
#30. I want to be only a poor friar who prays - if God sees blemishes even in the angels, can you imagine what He sees in me!
Pio Of Pietrelcina
#31. We don't have enough words for photography. Can you imagine writers having only one word for writing?
John Paul Caponigro
#32. Can you imagine...the detrimental effect on your marriage prospects, to be found unchaperoned in a library with a dead vampire!
Gail Carriger
#33. Can you imagine the hopelessness of trying to live a spiritual life when you're secretly looking up at the skies not for illumination or direction, but to gauge, miserably, the odds of rain?
Anne Lamott
#34. I'm working full-time on my job and part time on my fortune. But it won't be long before I'm working full-time on my fortune ... can you imagine what my life will look like?
Jim Rohn
#35. Can you imagine a 6 year old banging all day on a drum kit. I do have photos of me in my sort of princess girly bedroom with a bad-ass sparkle set.
Jill Sobule
#36. Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
Prince
#37. Can you imagine how terrible it is when you've got everything and you're still desperately lonely? That is awful beyond words.
Freddie Mercury
#38. The very first thing I ever did, I was doing some work for the French Cultural Center. They wanted a little recording set up. And I got wire. A wire recorder. The wire came off spools, and to cut and edit, you tied it together in little square knots. Can you imagine?
D. A. Pennebaker
#39. Professor Einstein says that time differs from place to place. Can you imagine? If time is not true, what purpose have watchmakers, hein?
Alan Moore
#40. Stoichkov is a great person and an exceptional player ... Only if we had him at Napoli ... can you imagine the Stoichkov-Maradona attacking duo?
Diego Maradona
#41. Can you imagine those poor bastards grappling their prey, leaping over the rails, swords in hand, screaming 'Your cats! Give us all your god-damned cats!
Scott Lynch
#42. Worst was this boy Billy Hill, he was in school with me. When the nun called out his name she done it last name first, so it come out Hill, Billy. Can you imagine that? Hillbilly.
Henry Turner
#43. You know, the most amazing thing happened to me tonight ... I saw a car with the license plate ARW 357. Can you imagine? Of all the millions of license plates in the state, what was the chance that I would see that particular one tonight? Amazing!
Richard Feynman
#44. I want to go to the park. (Livia) Why? (Adron) Because, and I know this is a new concept for you, we might actually have fun. Can you imagine? You might even smile and the world could come to an end over it. (Livia)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#45. How awful to be a perfect beauty! How confusing! God. Can you imagine?
Erin O'Connor
#46. So the Mexican government fed the pope a tremendous amount of stuff about Trump is not a good person, and the pope just made a statement. Can you imagine? I just got a call. As I'm walkin' up here, they said, "Mr. Trump, the pope made a statement about you." I said, "The pope?"
Donald Trump
#47. President Bush demanded that Kerry apologize. Can you imagine that
Bush demanding an apology for someone stumbling over his words? ... Kerry should have tried the Bush strategy: say so many stupid things, no one cares anymore.
Jay Leno
#48. Francois Hollande is an intelligent man. I do not have a problem with him. The only thing is, he has never held office at the state level. Honestly, can you imagine Francois Hollande as president of France? Imagine it!
Nicolas Sarkozy
#49. I'm addicted to avocados, and I'll put them with anything, particularly chillies. Can you imagine if they became extinct? That would be like the apocalypse, no?
Gael Garcia Bernal
#50. Scriptures are Letters from Home. Can you imagine getting a letter from home and not even bothering to open it?
Ardeth Kapp
#51. It's been said that we are shaped by our thoughts. If this is true, can you imagine where one healthy thought can lead each day?
Christine Caine
#52. My mom's a vegan. She grounded me for six months last summer for eating a cheeseburger from McDonald's. Can you imagine how long she'd ground me for eating a person?
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#53. Can you imagine what it's like for you to be who I am, who I was, and for them to say that I raped a woman? And for the whole world to actually be entertaining the thought that you raped a woman. That's hell.
Tupac Shakur
#54. I was always nosy and can you imagine a better 60 years, 40 of which or 37 of which traveling any place in the world.
Mike Wallace
#55. Now let's make Virginia Heffernan a man. Can you imagine the same kind of spittle-flecked rage directed at a busy working father who admits to feeding his kids Annie's Organic Mac & Cheese?
Emily Matchar
#56. That's a real sign of the times - can you imagine Nick Cave wearing a hoodie? He may not wear one, but he definitely sells them.
Ian Astbury
#57. Can you imagine, in 2030, taking a space cruise on the very ship that carried the first human beings to Mars? I can't believe that people wouldn't line up for that possibility.
Buzz Aldrin
#58. Can you imagine Jesus saying, "Believe that I am the only way. Why? Because I said so, that's why! And if you don't believe, then you're going straight to hell!" But isn't that how we present him through our slogans?
Brian D. McLaren
#59. If you were to hire household staff to cook, clean, drive, stoke the fire, and answer the door, can you imagine suggesting that they not talk to each other, not see what each other is doing, not coordinate their functions?
Nicholas Negroponte
#60. I wish I had a stand-in for real life. Can you imagine having someone walk through your day to make sure everything's fine before it's your turn?
Lygia Day Penaflor
#61. A visible shiver ran through Arthur. "Can you imagine letting him touch you? Be like kissing a snake that'd been dipped in snot."
"Oh, now there's a mental image." Eric wrinkled his nose. "You have such a talent for description.
Cecilia Ryan
#62. Their father blamed me! And RiverClan cast me out, too. Can you imagine what that feels like? To be rejected twice? To be a loner when all you tried to do was to love?
Erin Hunter
#63. Two lords and an archduke had asked her to marry them, and so, she wrote to me in outrage, had Solya.
Can you imagine? I told him I thought he was a lunatic, and he said he would live in hope. Alosha laughed for ten minutes without stopping except to cough when I told her ...
Naomi Novik
#64. If you're Obama, can you imagine being lectured to about honesty and integrity from a convicted perjurer, Bill Clinton? My gosh, folks, I mean, literally how far has one fallen when that is the case?
Rush Limbaugh
#65. I get heartbroken flying into L.A. It's just this feeling of unspecific loss. Can you imagine what the San Fernando Valley was when it was all wheat fields? Can you imagine what John Steinbeck saw?
Edward Norton
#66. Can you imagine, finally showing your true self to your spouse, your soul mate, and having him not like you? So that's how the hating first began. I've thought about this a lot, and that's where it started, I think.
Gillian Flynn
#67. Can you imagine how much it fucking hurt to feel as if each breath you took might be your last but always using the little you had to beg the one person who claimed to love you unconditionally just to be there? It fucked me up. But most of all, it changed me. And I hated her for it.
B.B. Reid
#68. Don't be afraid Mr. Onaka, we need you because none of us drives.
Can you imagine anything as dumb as that? They were going to make a revolution and they didn't even know how to drive a car.
Mario Vargas-Llosa
#69. If you're so afraid of your imagination that you stifle it, how are you going to know God? How can you imagine heaven?
Katherine Paterson
#70. Can you imagine how your life would be if you couldn't talk?
Naoki Higashida
#71. Human beings only use ten percent of their brains. Ten percent! Can you imagine how much we could accomplish if we used the other sixty percent?
Ellen DeGeneres
#72. We didn't have a drill so he would burn the holes through the wood with a metal rod that he heated up in a fire. Can you imagine an ordinary crew doing that?
Marc Singer
#73. Can you imagine what I wouldn't risk for you? You can't, because there's nothing. There's bloody nothing - Roarke
J.D. Robb
#74. When I saw the car pulling into the driveway and I saw her getting out and walking towards the house, can you imagine Nadezhda, I performed involuntary excretion in my trousers.
Marina Lewycka
#75. Can you imagine a world in which, for example, we were not obliged to repeat the same thing every day of our lives? If, for example, we all decided to eat only when we were hungry, what would housewives and restaurants do? It
Paulo Coelho
#76. There was something so electric about it. So dangerous. Those little touches were everything. I lived fro them. You can build a whole world around the tiniest of touches. Did you know that? Can you imagine? - Tobias Aldshaw
Carol Rifka Brunt
#77. Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more-absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.
Nadine Gordimer
#78. And given how much of the evil and ugliness of the present world can be traced to money, can you imagine what the world will be like when money has been transformed?
Charles Eisenstein
#79. Can you imagine what it would be like to know that your life was just going to be a series of days that were
all the same, that were do-overs?
Jodi Picoult
#80. I think behind closed doors people behave differently no matter what period we're looking at, because people have to stand up straight in public but can slouch behind closed doors - can you imagine wearing those corsets?
Brenda Blethyn
#81. Can you imagine a demon auction? Serial killer going once ... twice ... sold to the drama queen at the corner.
P.C. Cast
#82. I believe my life has a value, and i don't want to waste it thinking about clothing.
I don't want to think about what i will wear in the morning. Truly, can you imagine anything more boring than fashion?
Michael Crichton
#83. Can you imagine peaking as a teen? I think if you peak in high school, there's a problem. That's what my sister always said: 'Don't worry, you'll peak later.'
Chelsea Handler
#84. The hardest thing for me is walking. Can you imagine you've got a metal pole and if you put pressure on it like a strong walk, you can walk.
Heather Mills
#85. And forever goodbye! Forever! Oh, Sir, can you imagine how dreadful this cruel word sounds when one loves?
Jean Racine
#86. Can you imagine getting a gun for a secret Santa? That is especially not a good idea if you work in a post office.
Chelsea Handler
#87. The movies today are too rich to have any room for genuine artists. They produce a few passable craftsmen, but no artists. Can you imagine a Beethoven making $100, 000 a year?
H.L. Mencken
#88. Can you imagine what it would feel like to become aware of an omnipresent ocean of wild divine love that has always been a secret to you in the same way that the sea is invisible to a fish?
Rob Brezsny
#89. Smoking I find the most ridiculous of all the varieties of human behavior and practically the only one that is entirely against nature. Can you imagine a cow or any animal taking a mouthful of smoldering straw then breathing in the smoke and blowing it out through its nostrils?
Ian Fleming
#90. Can you imagine life without the horror genre? There would be no monsters. Only a**holes.
Michael A. Arnzen
#91. Can you imagine looking at forever and knowing you'll always be alone?
Jennie Hendrickson
#92. My mother sent me to psychiatrists since the age of four because she didn't think little boys should be sad. When my brother was born, I stared out the window for days. Can you imagine that?
Andy Kaufman
#93. Can you imagine a waveless ocean while there is a big storm outside? And that calm ocean is the ocean of wisdom!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#94. I think the lawyers are such incredible actors. Can you imagine the performance they have to do every day?
Monica Bellucci
#95. Can you imagine if everyone on the planet turned off their TV to stop the intake of fear from the news channels and just concentrated on love? The whole planet would instantly propel itself into the ascension process and turn into a heavenly state in a higher vibratory dimension!
DJ QBert
#96. The world would be a vastly better place if people saw their need for God and accepted Him as Savior and Lord. And then lived by His rule of Love being the most important thing. Can you imagine the world if everyone was motivated by love for others?
Mary Engelbreit
#97. Can you imagine a world in which the letter O does not exist? My name would be Thm Yrke. Think about that.
Thom Yorke
#98. Utilities get out of the way. Can you imagine if you flipped a light switch and had to watch an ad before you got electricity? Can you imagine if you turned on a faucet and had to watch an ad before the water came out?
Jan Koum
#99. Can you imagine the feeling of being an oppressed colonial being addressed respectfully by a colonizer in the mother country?
Ambeth R. Ocampo
#100. You don't know what I long for."
"How can you imagine so when you make it this clear? You long for something different, and lovely, and exciting," he says, as my eyes drift closed. "You long to be outside your own skin, for just a little while.
Charlotte Stein
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