Top 100 Imagine Imagine Quotes
#1. You know the John Lennon song 'Imagine'? 'Imagine no possessions, no religion'? That's what it was like in Cambodia. The only thing people had was a spoon, for eating the daily pourridge. And that pourridge was grossly insufficient for the work they were made to do in the fields.
Sophal Ear
#2. I imagine watching Gale volunteering to save Rory in the reaping, having him torn from my life, becoming some strange girl's lover to stay alive, and then coming home with her. Living next to her. Promising to marry her. The
Suzanne Collins
#3. I loved fairy tales as a kid. I've always been drawn to fantasy. They're always exciting. There's never a dull moment. I just love the embellishments and the magical stuff. It's such fun to work with and to re-imagine your own way.
Gail Carson Levine
#4. I can't imagine people telling me what to do - I just can't imagine it.
Jane Campion
#5. Imagine living in a country where the cops are all people who're cut out for the job.
Michael Dibdin
#6. I don't spend a lot of time thinking of what they'll do musically, I try to imagine being locked into a windowless room with this person for twelve hours at a time. If you can look at that and think it might be fun then maybe you've got the right musician.
Leo Kottke
#7. My tears were hot and salty, and I imagine them melting my heart.
Lauren Myracle
#8. I imagine her rolling onto her back, welcoming me to create secrets with her that'll never leave this room.
Colleen Hoover
#9. I imagine what would happen if everyone turned their regrets into wishes, went around shouting them.
Nina LaCour
#10. Don't think of us as separate beings. Imagine that we are one body and it's been split into millions. When we sit in the mediation hall - that is unity
Frederick Lenz
#11. My wife is my favorite actress. Without question. I have seen more jaws drop in little theaters when people see my wife up on that stage than you can imagine.
Jim Parrack
#12. I'm an artist, and the need to get inside myself and be creative and be other people is a part of who I am. I don't imagine I'll abandon that completely.
Gwyneth Paltrow
#13. Calm, gentle, passionless as he appeared, there was yet, we fear, a quiet depth of malice, hitherto latent, but active now, in this unfortunate old man, which led him to imagine a more intimate revenge than any mortal had ever wreaked upon an enemy.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#14. How can we imagine a new language when the language of the enemy keeps our dismembered tongues tied to his belt?
Sherman Alexie
#15. I'm glad acting sunk its teeth into me, because now I can't imagine doing anything else.
Ryan Kwanten
#16. Sometimes I wonder how we can be so sure what it is God sees. How arrogant we are, I sometimes think, to imagine there's someone watching us every minute. To think our every action matters that much.
Carolyn Parkhurst
#17. The past always seems somehow more golden, more serious, than the present. We tend to forget the partisanship of yesteryear, preferring to re-imagine our history as a sure and steady march toward greatness.
Jon Meacham
#18. Just going along with this, what I did, or what I do is I imagine not being myself seeing it, but imagine somebody else who's seeing it for the first time.
Dennis Muren
#19. I am sometimes accused of being a dictator because I provoked the extraordinary elections by nominating the interim government. Can you imagine any dictator who provokes free elections in his own country?
Milos Zeman
#20. Age isn't a barrier to playing the bass, and I've definitely improved over the years, although maybe I'm not as flash as I once was. But looking back, I can't imagine a life without a guitar.
Suzi Quatro
#21. All of us are far richer than we imagine. None of us possesses a life devoid of magic.
Julia Cameron
#22. She saw Hitler as "a clown who looked like Charlie Chaplin." Like many others in America at this time and elsewhere in the world, she could not imagine him lasting very long or being taken seriously.
Erik Larson
#23. I cannot imagine having a physical relationship with a woman. I have not done that. But I really love women.
Catherine Deneuve
#24. The universe and the observer exist as a pair. I cannot imagine a consistent theory of the universe that ignores consciousness.
Andrei Linde
#25. Whoever will imagine a perpetual confession of ignorance, a judgment without leaning or inclination, on any occasion whatever, hasa conception of Pyrrhonism.
Michel De Montaigne
#26. I imagine many of my fans share a similarly chaotic feeling in their own lives. This album 'ARTPOP was written to make sense of that chaos.
Lady Gaga
#27. We have to imagine our dreams becoming reality. We must keep pursuing them and reaching beyond for future achievements. We never stop dreaming as long as we imagine.
Ellen J. Barrier
#28. Like having a child, running a startup is the sort of experience that's hard to imagine unless you've done it yourself.
Paul Graham
#29. Your future is ahead of you. Imagine the notion of the past fifteen years of your life being a blip in your story.
Jay-Z
#30. It is true that I had wanted to die , but that is peculiarly different from regretting having been born. Overwhelmingly, I was enormously glad to have been born, grateful for life, and I couldn't imagine not wanting to pass on life to someone else.
Kay Redfield Jamison
#31. Mother Teresa said that she couldn't imagine doing her work for more than thirty minutes without prayer. Do you and I have work that we can't imagine doing for thirty minutes without prayer?
Gary Haugen
#32. To understand that, we have to begin to imagine what a universe would be like if there wasn't anything in it called Mind. If that was the case, according to quantum physics now, then every possibility would also come into existence as every other possibility.
Fred Alan Wolf
#33. Imagine yourself sitting on top of a great thoroughbred horse. You sit up there and you just feel that power. That's what it was like playing quarterback on that team [the Pittsburgh Steelers]. It was a great ride.
Terry Bradshaw
#34. It always seemed to me," she said at last, "that it must require a great deal of courage to be an artist, if only because the creative process is such a lonely one. I should imagine it must be all the more difficult for a woman.
Richard Yates
#35. Dementia resembles delirium in the same way an ultra-marathon resembles a dash across the street. Same basic components, vastly different scale. If you've run delirium's course once or twice in your life, try to imagine a version that never ends.
Floyd Skloot
#36. No doubt the ridiculous politicians are right to like politics. They have found careers in which success can be achieved by being ridiculous. Imagine Jimmy Carter or George W. Bush rising to the top of any other profession.
P. J. O'Rourke
#38. 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
#39. If there is as a continuum from self-reproducing molecules, such as DNA, to microbes, and an evolutionary sequence continuum from microbes to humans, why should we imagine that continuum to stop at humans?
Carl Sagan
#40. Men owe us what they imagine they will give us. We must forgive them this debt.
Simone Weil
#41. It is a mistake to imagine that you can awaken in any kind of permanent way. There is only NOW and so you can only be awake now. Even the idea of permanence is an illusion. The question to ask is 'Am I awake and fully present NOW?' That question arises and is answered in perfect silence.
Leonard Jacobson
#42. Words are like gems to me ... imagine yourself walking through a very shallow stream and picking up beautiful stones that catch your eye ... that's what names are like for me.
Anne Rice
#44. They are young, full of ambition and dreams; they are still unable to imagine that there might be a story in the world in which they are not the main characters.
Juan Gomez Barcena
#45. Your problem is a serious lack of imagination. You can't imagine being different than you are.
Linda Morris
#46. My favorite novel in the world is Frankenstein. I'm going to misquote it horribly, but the monster says, "I have such love in me, more than you can imagine. But, if I cannot provoke it, I will provoke fear."
Guillermo Del Toro
#47. Imagine learning at such a young age that your very appearance - your very identity - is enough to trigger such confusion and animosity. Imagine knowing that people will hate you for no reason other than you are who you are
Thomas Beatie
#48. Imagine if the headless horseman had a headless horse. That would be chaos. I would think that if you were the headless horseman's horse, you would be very confused. "I don't think this dude can see."
Mitch Hedberg
#49. Nobody likes me," he concluded at the tail end of a ten-minute pity fest.
"Can't imagine why," Quinn murmured. I turned my snort of laughter into a fake cough,
which was an embarrassingly feeble attempt at subterfuge when you consider the fact that
I didn't have any lungs.
Robin Wasserman
#50. Shakespeare used 17,677 words in his writings, of which at least one-tenth had never been used before. Imagine if every tenth word you wrote were original. It is a staggering display of ingenuity. But
Bill Bryson
#51. I am very much a Red Sox fan; I can name you more players than you could possibly imagine. It's just part of who I am.
Bill De Blasio
#52. Greatness demands that I understand that I am not nearly as big as I thought myself to be, but that I am capable of becoming far bigger than I ever imagined myself to be.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#53. When we lay together, she showed me her soul, and I showed her mine, and they were the same. As you can imagine, mine was battered and bruised, tarnished like ancient metal. She scrubbed it clean. I cannot deny my own soul any more than I can deny she held it in her hands for a time.
Carol Oates
#54. In science fiction, we dream. In order to colonize in space, to rebuild our cities, which are so far out of whack, to tackle any number of problems, we must imagine the future, including the new technologies that are required.
Ray Bradbury
#55. I think there's nothing that makes you happier than to be really involved in something. I can't imagine a totally idle life.
Lee Radziwill
#56. Wilderness is the source of what we can imagine and what we cannot - the taproot of consciousness.
It will survive us.
Terry Tempest Williams
#57. Write what you know will always be excellent advice for those who ought not to write at all. Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect!
Gore Vidal
#58. When I'm feeling sad, or lonely, and I don't know what I'm doing and I don't know where I'm going, I imagine the Cool Awesome Future Version of Myself just telling my present self, "It's okay. You just gotta grab that giraffe by the ears and ride it on out."
Jenna Marbles
#59. It's a great honor to me to be named to the Hall of Fame. It's very hard for me to even imagine that I would ever be elected to it.
Red Faber
#60. Imagine you are walking along, and you trip over something and you turn around and find that it is a huge diamond. You would pick it up and do everything in your power to take care of that diamond because it might take care of you for the rest of your life.
Chad Michael Murray
#61. Faith is choosing and believing God's dream for your life. Nothing starts happening in your life until you start dreaming. God gave you the ability to dream, to create, to imagine.
Rick Warren
#62. All those we can love, think, or imagine are more real than those we can see or have seen.
Debasish Mridha
#63. Imagine you are the Earth and he is the Sun, that silence is tangible, and the stars are the souls of your previous lives.
Jessica Bell
#64. I like to imagine that all the choices you make during the day that you're doing a particular scene are going to feed into the creation of that scene. It's not a movie-by-movie or a part-by-part basis. It's a day-by-day thing, and sometimes an hour-by-hour thing.
Thomas Jane
#65. The Remain campaign ... I've never seen a more miserable offering. All they are saying is stay in and we'll do our best to make sure that Britain's Parliamentary independence isn't eroded faster than we can possibly imagine.
Boris Johnson
#66. It does not take much to imagine the humanity of people you don't know.
Elliott Colla
#67. I would imagine that most of my writing is done spontaneously. I had no intention of writing, and then I'll just walk through the house, and I'll hear this melody, and I'll turn on the tape players and go back to it later on. Some days I'll get 3-5 songs a day.
Andrae Crouch
#68. If I have to hold a note for a long time, I imagine it as moving and spinning, for the note has to have life. In a way, a singer actually refreshes a note with every beat that it's held.
Renee Fleming
#70. Hatred grows into insolence when we desire to excel the rest of mankind and imagine we do not belong to the common lot; we even severely and haughtily despise others as our inferiors.
John Calvin
#71. I see no reason why I should not live on indefinitely just as I have done, and on the whole I am more comfortable here than in Purgatory, a place that I imagine to be like the suburbs of London.
Mary Borden
#72. Where am I and doing what? You might well ask. Freaky chick, you say? You can't imagine. I am priestess of a sandcastle in a land of dust and starlight.
Laini Taylor
#73. 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
#74. But since C had disappeared, the fantasies that obsessed me were all the worst things I could imagine at any given time.
Alexandra Kleeman
#76. The old chess is too limited. Imagine playing cards, black jack for example, and every time the dealer has the same starting hand you have the same starting hand. What's the point?
Bobby Fischer
#77. Your life's just begun and there's a ton of things out in the world you've never laid eyes on. Things you never could imagine.
Haruki Murakami
#78. He was a black hole to anyone who might imagine that he or she was a friend of his.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#79. Work ethic, confidence, a laser focus and commitment to accomplish a goal that most people can never imagine.
Daniel Cormier
#80. I can only imagine the quiet horror that people must endure when they meet me in person.
Brad Listi
#81. It's funny, when I lived in Ohio, I would read about extraordinary, eccentric characters in books and plays, but I couldn't imagine them in real life. Then I came to New York.
Fiona Davis
#82. Lovers cannot imagine any opposition, no matter how small, to the beloved. They cannot endure to see the beloved veiled by something that causes Him to be forgotten. Moreover, lovers regard as futile any speech not about the beloved, and any act not related to Him as ingratitude and disloyalty.
Fethullah Gulen
#83. Everyone must imagine his own snakes because no one else's snakes can ever be as awful.
Tove Jansson
#84. Imagine yourself in the scene. See what there is to be seen. Listen to the sounds. Touch the world. Smell the air. Taste it. Use all of your senses. Then evoke those experiences for the reader. If you give the audience the flavor, they'll flesh out the moment in their own imaginations.
David Gerrold
#85. Maybe because I can't even put together an IKEA desk, I've never been tempted to think of my own poems as built objects - but I do sometimes imagine them as mathematical constructs.
James Arthur
#86. As writers, it is our job not only to imagine, but to witness.
Dani Shapiro
#87. Believe in yourself up here and it will make you stronger than you could ever imagine.
Sarah Dessen
#88. Imagine that each time you inhale, that the universe is breathing into you, and as you exhale it is breathing out of you.
Andrew Weil
#89. All the tragedies which we can imagine return in the end to the one and only tragedy: the passage of time.
Simone Weil
#90. I grew up in New York City - I grew up surrounded by every sound that you imagine can come from a New Yorker. All of the different boroughs and all of the different sounds.
Maggie Wheeler
#91. It is very difficult to love people who are good to us: it is easier to imagine we are loving people we can condescend to.
Nicholas Mosley
#92. In the end, perhaps we should simply imagine a joke; a long joke that's continually retold in an accent too thick and strange to ever be completely understood. Life is that joke my friends. The soul is the punch line.
Tom Robbins
#93. Imagine yourself in Harriet Tubman's shoes. Fighting to be freed from deplorable conditions. Placing one foot in front of the other, putting slavery behind you. If a petite, abused slave can rise up, fight for freedom, secure the freedom of others, and change her world, so can I. And so can you.
Susie Larson
#94. I don't know if I'm embarrassed because I think it's a funny show, but I could imagine there being a snootiness about it, but I do find 'The Big Bang Theory' very funny. I think that's a good show. I think it's fun, I like the actors; I think they're all doing a great job.
Stephen Merchant
#95. I find it hard to imagine how someone listens to my stuff, or views what I do, or me, or anything.
Danielle Dax
#96. I'm a writer; as soon as I imagine what would happen if I found the fountain of youth, it turns into a dystopia in my head.
Marie Brennan
#97. Obviously it's hard for anyone to imagine, but these dance halls were powder kegs just waiting to erupt. Names were made and reputations were enhanced or blown in a flash!
Stephen Richards
#98. I had thought Felicity dangerous a moment ago, when she felt powerful. I was wrong. Wounded and powerless, she is more dangerous than I could imagine.
Libba Bray
#99. People imagine that hope has degrees, but I think not. There is hope and there is no hope.
Siri Hustvedt
#100. It is no blasphemy to say that every man creates the God creating him. We are facets of a work whose finished form we cannot imagine, though our imaginations, aided by grace, are the means - or at least one means - of its completion.
Christian Wiman
