Imagine The World Quotes

#1. I've always thought that art is a lie, an interesting lie. And I'll sort of listen to the "lie" and try to imagine the world which makes that lie true ... what that world must be like, and what would have to happen for us to get from this world to that one.

Brian Eno

#2. As an actor, our very palette is one of imagination. So it is a walk onto an empty space and then imagine the world beyond it is what we do.

Rhys Ifans

#3. Imagine the world of mobile based on Nokia and Motorola if Apple had not been restarted by a missionary entrepreneur named Steve Jobs who cared more for his vision than being tactical and financial.

Vinod Khosla

#4. Duotrope is like a smart phone. You can't imagine the world ever going back.

David

#5. 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

#6. I always imagine the world and myself above it and how minute one negative person's voice is in comparison to the amount of people that are in the world.

Jessie J.

#7. Imagine the world we would live in if we dared to see all of life as sacred - unconditionally.

Stephanie Dowrick

#8. Imagine the world so greatly magnified that particles of light look like twenty-four-pound cannon balls.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#9. A world is to be fought for, sung, and built: Love must imagine the world.

Muriel Rukeyser

#10. How you imagine the world determines how you live in it.

David Suzuki

#11. The designer's job is to imagine the world not how it is, but how it should be.

Terence Conran

#12. closing, I ask "could you imagine the world without guitars"?

Bob Fetherolf

#13. She learned to love him before he thought it was even possible, so he didn't have a chance to hide & mess it up & while it was a little scary at times, mainly he could not even imagine the world without her there.

Brian Andreas

#14. All writing problems are psychological problems. Blocks usually stem from the fear of being judged. If you imagine the world listening, you'll never write a line. That's why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.

Erica Jong

#15. It is hard to imagine the World Series being held in the sweet hazy sunshine of late September rather than the sour night air of late October, but that is precisely what has transpired in baseball over the past 50 years, a deterioration from light to darkness.

George Vecsey

#16. I can understand that there are those who can think and imagine the world without words, but I think that once you find the words that name your experience, then suddenly that experience becomes grounded, and you can use it and you can try to understand it.

Alberto Manguel

#17. There is an eternal dispute between those who imagine the world to suit their policy, and those who correct their policy to suit the realities of the world.

Albert Sorel

#18. To imagine the world without gods and religion is reasonable enough; to imagine mankind without them is an entirely different matter.

Anthony Marais

#19. Blocks usually stem from fear of being judged. If you imagine the world is listening, you'll never write a line.

Erica Jong

#20. I imagine the world from my window ... Traveling, I think it's a nightmare today. The airports and things the people in the street with the selfies ... I like to stay at home and read.

Karl Lagerfeld

#21. It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.

Frank Zappa

#22. I imagine the world dividing into the people who want to feed their children, and the ones shooting at them.

Neil Gaiman

#23. I simply can't imagine the world will ever be normal again for us. I do talk about "after the war," but it's as if I'm talking about a castle in the air, something that can never come true.

Anne Frank

#24. The whole world recognizes Russia's cultural achievements. It is impossible to imagine the world culture without Russian culture, without our music and literature.

Vladimir Putin

#25. There are periods when life is so pleasant one can almost imagine the world is sun-dappled and safe.

Phyllis T. Smith

#26. To divine is to imagine the world rightly, to see past the illusion that we are separate from the entire fabric of reality.

Gwendolyn Womack

#27. Initially I probably didn't even call it acting, but dressing up or something. As a kid I think you fully imagine the world in which you want to inhabit, so you put some clothes on and just kind of freely imagine this world, and it's a total imaginary world.

Hugo Weaving

#28. As a builder, as an entrepreneur, how can you create something for someone else if you don't have even enough glancing familiarity with them to imagine the world through their eyes?

Timothy Ferriss

#29. We're all entitled to our different likes and dislikes. Imagine the world if we all liked the same things.

Malia Ann Haberman

#30. Imagine the world as a crayon box, and it took every colour to draw each of us. Adding a shade lighter and darker with each interaction. None would be black or white, either purely absorbing all, or reflecting each. #ColourMeSpotless

Nikhil Sharda

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. She dreamed of leaving, but she had too little exposure to the world to imagine where to go.

Gregory Maguire

#38. My favorite novels allow me to imagine the characters afterward and what happened, and that I've witnessed a really great story, where the world goes on.

J.H. Wyman

#39. There was, in his mind, no truer measure of stupidity than to imagine that the world could be reduced to two sides,

Steven Erikson

#40. So now the challenge is to imagine a different world where our wealth is in human relations and the things we do together, and we learn to live in balance with the rest of nature.

David Suzuki

#41. Just imagine if you took all the money you've spent on these things and traveled around the world with it, instead, or bought books and read them. Think about how much you would know about life.

Eustace Conway

#42. Theria snarled at him.
"Careful my dear, your teeth are showing, and I imagine that is frowned upon here too ... Why don't you do yourself a favor and go pluck something. It will really do you the world of good," said Abaddon.

Patti Roberts

#43. To paraphrase science writer John D. Barrow ... we know they are impossible and yet we can imagine them anyway. Our brains, it turns out, are not prisoners of the world we live in; we can fly free! We can, any time we like, create the impossible.

Robert Krulwich

#44. When we imagine our Universe to be just one out of a multitude of possible worlds we devalue this world, the one we see, the one we should be trying to explain.

Roberto Unger

#45. Great drama is great questions or it is nothing but technique. I could not imagine a theater worth my time that did not want to change the world.

Arthur Miller

#46. We can only imagine the history of the free world today if, at the end of the Civil War, there had been two countries: the United States and the Confederate States of America.

Douglas Brinkley

#47. Virtually everything that the government does costs more than when the same thing is done in private industry - whether it is building housing, running prisons, collecting garbage, or innumerable other things. Why in the world would we imagine that health care would be the exception?

Thomas Sowell

#48. The world before us is a postcard, and I imagine the story we are writing on it.

Mary E. Pearson

#49. It is strange how custom can mould our tastes and ideas: many could not imagine the existence of happiness in a life of such complete exile from the world.

Emily Bronte

#50. Messi does not need his right foot. He only uses the left and he's still the best in the world. Imagine if he also used his right foot, Then we would have serious problems.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

#51. Everyone tended to believe everything was their fault; maybe it was just hard to imagine, when you were still fairly young, that there were some things in the world that were just not about you.

Meg Wolitzer

#52. I find it hard to believe that my God would consign four-fifths of the world to hell. I can't imagine that my God would allow some little Hindu kid in India who never interacts with the Christian faith to somehow burn for all eternity. That's just not part of my religious makeup.

Barack Obama

#53. It's not that hard to imagine the natural world recovering it's health in our absence: it's more difficult, and more necessary, to imagine it recovering its health in our presence.

Alex Steffen

#54. Compassion is born from the imagination. To have the desire to be compassionate, you have to imagine a world that's better than the one you live in.

Ryan Henry Ward Artist

#55. Just imagine dressing the two handsomest men in the world, and then getting this!

Edith Head

#56. What do you find when you go inside? A rich world, streaming with thoughts, feelings, sensations, memories, hopes, wishes, dreams, and fears. No one is immune to the allure of this world. We experience ourselves in here, and everything we can possibly imagine.

Deepak Chopra

#57. A theory not only explains the world we see, it lets us imagine other worlds, and, even more significantly, lets us act to create those worlds. Developing everyday theories, like scientific theories, has allowed human beings to change the world.

Alison Gopnik

#58. I actually see myself in all my characters. In order to imagine what it feels like to be another person I have to use my own experiences and responses to the world.

Elizabeth Strout

#59. When I look out in the future, I can't imagine a world, 500 years from now, where we don't have robots everywhere.

Rodney Brooks

#60. Imagine if Steve Jobs or Thomas Edison or Albert Einstein were all alive 10, 20, 30 years before we know them to be alive; it would have advanced the world that much sooner.

Marc Guggenheim

#61. Just as we tend to assume that the world is as we see it, we naively suppose that the people are as we imagine them to be.

C. G. Jung

#62. I cannot imagine any other country in the world where the opposition would seek, and the chief executive would allow, the dissemination of his most private and personal conversations with his staff, which, to be honest, do not exactly confer sainthood on anyone concerned.

Gerald R. Ford

#63. We cannot fight against the poverty and hunger in the world; when our stomachs are full of delicious food; the fighters must feel the poverty not imagine it.

M.F. Moonzajer

#64. I don't want to lose you. I'm in love with you Blaire. I've never wanted anything or anyone the way I want you. I can't imagine my world now without you in it.

Abbi Glines

#65. Imagine the greatness this world would know if kindness were as contagious and enduring as the common cold.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#66. We are so accustomed to the apparently rational nature of our world that we can scarcely imagine anything happening that cannot be explained by common sense. The primitive man confronted by a shock of this kind would not doubt his sanity; he would think of fetishes, spirits or gods

Carl Jung

#67. To imagine wasn't to escape but to go deeper; to see through to the secret life of the world.

Alison MacLeod

#68. Imagine who she would be if we unleashed her onto the world. I think she would rip the breath from all of us.

Melina Marchetta

#69. Our visions are the world we imagine, the tangible results of what the world would look like if we spent every day in pursuit of our WHY.

Simon Sinek

#70. You have a gateway inside you to lands beyond the world you know. They will call you, as you grow. There can never be a time when you forget them, when you are not, in your heart, questing after something you cannot have, something you cannot even properly imagine.

Neil Gaiman

#71. And surely, he that hath taken the true Altitude of Things, and rightly calculated the degenerate state of this Age, is not like to envy those that shall live in the next, much less three or four hundred Years hence, when no Man can comfortably imagine what Face this World will carry.

Thomas Browne

#72. I do find stories - or literary fiction - an apt form for analyzing the world. And especially for trying to imagine the other. An agenda, again, that seems more important now than ever.

Jim Shepard

#73. A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine.

John Gay

#74. World War II is the greatest drama in human history, the biggest war ever and a true battle of good and evil. I imagine writers will continue to get stories from it, and readers will continue to love them, for many more years.

Ken Follett

#75. It's the silence I imagine in the rest of the world, the silence of an endless ocean and uninhabitable island, a silence that can be seen from space.

Lauren DeStefano

#76. Death is not a changing of worlds as most imagine, as much as the walls of this world infinitely expanding.

Richard Rohr

#77. Imagine waking up and finding your first and last view of the world was a shotgun barrel. That'd be a hell of a life.

John Scalzi

#78. Imagine if you succeeded in making the world perfect for your children what a shock the rest of life would be for them.

Joyce Maynard

#79. Truly, can you imagine anything more boring than fashion? Professional sports, perhaps. Grown men swatting little balls, while the rest of the world pays money to applaud.

Michael Crichton

#80. Oh, Karamazov, I am deeply unhappy. I sometimes imagine God only knows what, that everyone is laughing at me, the entire world, and at such moments, at such moments I am quiet simply ready to annihilate the entire order of things.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#81. 'God' is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and 'Deity' is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants.

Isaac Newton

#82. Because I imagine there must be only a very, very few men in the world, that I should like to marry; and of those few, it is ten to one I may never be acquainted with one; or if I should, it is twenty to one he may not happen to be single, or to take a fancy to me.

Anne Bronte

#83. We live in a world where those things that we never imagine could ever do something, did the best.

Jestoni Revealed

#84. I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader - or any person - in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks.

Alice Walker

#85. As the world grows older there is loss and gain - let us not with modern insolence and blindness imagine it all gain; [...] but neither must we with neo-pagan obscurity of thought imagine it all loss.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#86. Specific music starts feeding my imagination and gives me a landscape that corresponds somehow, in some abstract way, to the world I'm just starting to imagine.

Jim Jarmusch

#87. A lot of my peers don't think about collaborating the way I do. My approach is to imagine my world. The Jason Wu woman isn't just floating around in a beautiful dress. I like to know where she's going, what she likes. I'm not just in the fashion business. I'm in the lifestyle business.

Jason Wu

#88. Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities superior, either in kind or degree, to those which he sees allotted to the rest of the world.

Samuel Johnson

#89. Man, free thinker!
Do you imagine you alone think in this world where life is blazing forth in all things?
You are free to avail yourself of the forces you command, but the universe has gone missing from your prescriptions.

Gerard De Nerval

#90. The places we visited were always richer and always more intricate than one could imagine. I loved to find out about the world, the good and the bad, in this way. For me, observing things with my own eyes was the only way. My wanderlust was also a wonderlust.

Luke F.D. Marsden

#91. Imagine what we could do for the world's grand challenges with a trillion hours of focused attention.

Peter Diamandis

#92. There is nothing wrong with looking one way while the world looks another. Imagine if this whole time, we've been looking at it wrong.

Travis Barker

#93. What I do find surprising is that other people do not think in the same way. I find it hard to imagine a world where numbers and words are not how I experience them!

Daniel Tammet

#94. Imagine the amazing good fortune of the generation that gets to see the end of the world. This is as marvelous as being there in the beginning.

Jean Baudrillard

#95. I'm really looking forward to it, if you can imagine floating weightless, watching the world pour by through the big bay window of the space station playing a guitar; just a tremendous place to think about where we are in history.

Chris Hadfield

#96. She was fifteen and had access to the Internet; she already knew that the world is a cruel place if you're a girl. Her parents couldn't imagine that this could happen, but Maya simply hadn't expected it to happen to her.

Fredrik Backman

#97. If there is such a thing as 'a Cukor style,' I guess it arises out of two principal factors: my own personalized perception of the world and my ability to deal professionally with actors. As far as perception is concerned, I always try to imagine settings through the best possible eyes.

George Cukor

#98. With the World War II era, there's so much written material to draw on. When you go back to the 14th century, you have to imagine more.

Ken Follett

#99. All the nations and peoples are too closely knit together today for any one of them to imagine that it can live apart. Peace has been said to be indivisible, so is freedom, so is prosperity now, and so also is disaster in this one world that can no longer be split into isolated fragments.

Jawaharlal Nehru

#100. You'd imagine Mick would be the happiest person in the world, and yet a lot of the times he isn't.

Charlie Watts