Top 100 Quotes About Imagining
#1. I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.
Quincy Jones
#2. I just like imagining the possibilities. That's part of freedom too --getting to dream, and knowing it could happen if I want it to.
Sara Raasch
#3. Novels are very different than films and I love to see someone else's imagining of my story.
Nicholas Sparks
#4. I like to write books that I would have liked as a child, that would have got me thinking and imagining beyond the words on the page. In a way, my audience is always how I remember myself as a child.
Garth Nix
#5. The historical novelist has to consider what has actually happened, while the SF writer is dealing in possibilities, but they are both in the business of imagining a world unlike our own and yet connected to it.
Pamela Sargent
#6. We began by imagining that we are giving to the; we end by realizing that they have enriched us.
Pope John Paul II
#7. Since physical escape is impossible, the child escapes mentally. She floats out of her body, imagining that somebody else is being raped or beaten, and turns off her emotions, saying, This isn't happening to me.
Marlene Steinberg
#8. A kind of Providence keeps us blind to the intensity of suffering so as to keep us sane, until that day when the suffering is our own or that of someone we love beyond imagining.
Jim Beaver
#9. I'm not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they're going to do. I'm just going to do it. Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia.
John Green
#10. It's like, when someone asks you how you are and even though you want to say that you feel like shit, that you're miserable, that you cry until you gag and spend most of your time imagining ways to kill yourself, instead you just say, 'Fine, thanks.
Aryn Kyle
#11. While men are gazing up to Heaven, imagining after a happiness, or fearing a Hell after they are dead, their eyes are put out, that they see not what is their birthright.
Gerrard Winstanley
#12. There is within each one of us a potential for goodness beyond our imagining; for giving which seeks no reward; for listening without judgment; for loving unconditionally.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
#13. As I write at the end, if we step back and face the enormity of the torrent, then we have taken the first step to imagining what we might want to do about it.
Todd Gitlin
#14. I look at [books] as a child looks at cakes - with glittering eyes and a watering mouth, imagining the pleasure that awaits him.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#15. I'm going to keep these panties, too. Maybe jerk off with them wrapped around my cock, imagining it's your lips.
Megan Erickson
#16. Isabel turns down Oak toward the little vintage shop at Fourth Avenue, thinking of lunch - the Chinese place in Old Town, casting around inside herself for hunger, imagining the tastes of things.
Alexis M. Smith
#17. With one hundred miles left to go in the Klondike 200 I began imagining how amazed people would be at the finished line. Entering the Klondike, my sights had been set on merely finishing.
Brian Patrick O'Donoghue
#18. I'm constantly telling young people that their voices and stories are important. Making a movie is such a large-scale, intense operation that imagining that you "deserve" to be making it is - well, complex.
Josephine Decker
#19. Walk a mile in my shoes is good advice. Our children will learn to respect others if they are used to imagining themselves in another's place.
Neil Kurshan
#20. Political movements, personal movements, all begin with people imagining another way of existing.
Neil Gaiman
#21. Our misconception is in imagining that our suffering or how intensely or how long we grieve is a measure of how much we loved. In truth, none of us would want another's grief as a testimonial of their love for us. More likely we would want our loved ones to live healthy, fulfilled lives without us.
Judy Tatelbaum
#22. We - each of us - are intricately, irremovably connected to the larger universe. It is our true home, and thinking that this physical world is all that matters is like shutting oneself up in a small closet and imagining that there is nothing else out beyond it.
Eben Alexander
#23. Imagining [The Wizard of Oz] without Judy Garland is a bit like dancing on wet cement: you can do it, but why would you want to?
Pauline Kael
#24. There was a twofold awkwardness attached to Juan Diego's attempts to have sex with the life-size Guadalupe doll - better said, the awkwardness of Juan Diego's imagining he was having sex with the plastic virgin.
John Irving
#25. All I can think about is him. His body. It's like I'm drugged. My brain goes on a loop, replaying things we've done, imagining things we'll do. I walk around in this lust-fueled haze.
Kresley Cole
#26. Until she had had children of her own she had not been able to contemplate the death of either of her parents; when the subject had arisen, in conversation or in her own imagining, she had said only: I just don't know what I'd do.
Sebastian Faulks
#27. Due to not getting pumped regular, females take the oddest fancies, such as imagining they can think.
Loretta Chase
#28. The universe does not know whether the vibration that you're offering is because of something you're observing or something you're remembering or something that you are imagining. It just receives the vibration and answers it with things that match it.
Abraham Hicks
#29. Ros was dead.
He had loved heroin more than it loved him. I was shocked beyond imagining; he was the first of my friends to fall.
Craig Ferguson
#30. The only thing better than imagining Dimitri carrying me in his arms was imagining him shirtless while carrying me in his arms.
Richelle Mead
#31. I have a hard time imagining a country or a government where I would say, "Oh, this is good," where I could live under a government that I respect for a day or a week, even to see what it feels like.
Aleksandar Hemon
#32. Writing is always a process of discovery - I never know the end,or even the events on the next page, until they happen. There is a constant interplay between the imagining and shaping of the story.
Kim Edwards
#33. For in me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.
Samuel Beckett
#34. Without defenses, people have no way of finding meaning in their experiences, lose their capacity to remember, and have difficulty imagining reasonable futures. One
Neil Postman
#35. Holden was imagining what several hundred rounds of Teflon-coated tungsten steel going five thousand meters per second would do to human bodies when Alex threw down the throttle and a roomful of elephants swan dived onto his chest.
James S.A. Corey
#36. If God created humans with the ability to dictate the direction of history (by imagining future states of the universe and steering its path toward one version or another), then humanity's duty to God was to direct history toward the best of all possible worlds.
Dexter Palmer
#37. The human mind has no more power of inventing a new value than of imagining a new primary colour,or, indeed, of creating a new sun and a new sky for it to move in.
C.S. Lewis
#38. So the problem of Evil never really existed. To expect the universe to be benevolent was like imagining one could always win at a game of pure chance.
Arthur C. Clarke
#39. Call it holistic or holographic thinking, it's been quite effective imagining the world's problems are all right in front of you on a smaller scale with your band. You deal with those relationships, and that's where real major change begins.
Stone Gossard
#40. To love in the sense of passion-love is the contrary of to live. It is an impoverishment of one's being, an askesis without sequel, an inability to enjoy the present without imagining it as absent, a never-ending flight from possession.
Denis De Rougemont
#41. I spend a lot of time imagining things - in fact, you could say that imagining things is my job.
Sara Sheridan
#42. Nothing is more important than creative play through imagination.
Never stop playing, and never stop imagining!
Carmela Dutra
#43. Books, games, jigsaws, as well as the soaring fells and sparkling lakes that would revive their spirits beyond all imagining.
Rebecca Tope
#44. To have a body is to suffer. Does anyone with a body know peace? Those who understand this detach themselves from all that exists and stop imagining or seeking anything. The sutras say, "To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss." When you seek nothing, you're on the Path.
Bodhidharma
#45. We're professional worriers. You're constantly imagining things that could go wrong and then writing about them.
John Green
#46. Nuclear doctrine consists of thinking the unthinkable. It involves making threats and promising retaliation that is cruel and destructive beyond imagining. But it has its purpose: to prevent war in the first place.
Charles Krauthammer
#47. Manners are about imagination, ultimately. They are about imagining being the other person.
Lynne Truss
#48. I live in a high-rise apartment building, so I just have two cats. They're both pound kitties. One of them, Dick, is an evil, foot-biting cat. When I write a tiger morph, I'm always imagining Dick.
K.A. Applegate
#49. There were certain chapters when I stopped writing, saw the domestic situation I was in and thought, I don't want to face this world, let's get back to the hellish one I'm imagining.
Alasdair Gray
#50. Practicing is not only playing your instrument, either by yourself or rehearsing with others - it also includes imagining yourself practicing. Your brain forms the same neural connections and muscle memory whether you are imagining the task or actually doing it.
Yo-Yo Ma
#51. You are here. However you imagine yourself to be, you are here. Imagine yourself as a body, you are here. Imagine yourself as God, you are here. Imagine yourself as worthless, superior, nothing at all, you are still here. My suggestion is that you stop all imagining, here.
Gangaji
#52. I like the idea of imagining a sound and feeling a sound and then having it come out through your body, through an instrument. That's an important way to make music.
Tod Machover
#53. There's the waiting for something you don't know is coming. You don't even know what it is exactly, but you're hoping for it. You're imagining and living your life for it. That's the kind of waiting that makes a fist in your heart.
Martine Murray
#54. One of the bitterest ironies of life is that one truly appreciates a blessing only after having been deprived of it or imagining that.
Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi
#55. I understood that no one lives forever, but there are certain people whose power and presence so thoroughly penetrate your view of things that contemplating their absence feels as strange as imagining having never been born yourself.
Walter Kirn
#57. No, no, one can imagine nothing in the world, not the least thing. Everything is composed of so many isolated details that are not to be foreseen. In one's imagining one passes over them and hasty as one is doesn't notice that they are missing. But realities are slow and indescribably detailed.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#58. If having an imagination means imagining all the things you don't have - imagining, in fact, the impossibility of your own happiness - is an imagination a good thing?
Cathleen Schine
#59. Images of resentment and revenge only have us spending the precious moments of our lives imagining the 'other' as both dangerous and important!
Bill Crawford
#60. Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.
Aldous Huxley
#61. But you can go on thinking and imagining forever further and stop at no decisions to pick up a bag for the thinkings. Turn your thinking into your work, your thoughts a book, in sieges.
Jack Kerouac
#62. When you're imagining peace, you can't kill anyone. That's good isn't it?
Yoko Ono
#63. There are conditions worse than being unable to see, and that is imagining one sees.
L. Ron Hubbard
#64. If God imagined you at birth, what makes you think He's stopped imagining you now.
Erwin McManus
#65. I can't do fiction unless I visualize what's going on. When I began to write science fiction, one of the things I found lacking in it was visual specificity. It seemed there was a lot of lazy imagining, a lot of shorthand.
William Gibson
#66. History does not repeat itself. Nor does it unfold in cycles. The real future is contingent, rich beyond imagining, a perennial gobsmack, tragic and glorious in equal measure; the pundits' future, spun of 'conventional wisdom,' is only a sucker punch to that common-sense fact.
Rick Perlstein
#67. Ah yes, the dreaded one-way system ... He and Nancy had laughed later, imagining Dante redesigning Purgatory into a one-way system offering occasional glimpses of St. Peter and the pearly gates over two separate sets of dividing concrete barriers.
Helen Simonson
#68. The deepest form of understanding another person is empathy...[which] involves a shift from...observing how you seem on the outside, to...imagining
Indi Young
#69. We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be without the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot.
Charles Horton Cooley
#70. If you have trouble imagining a 20% loss in the stock market, you shouldn't be in stocks.
John C. Bogle
#71. I'm most alive when I'm on set. Whether I'm imagining it on my head, I know what I want to capture.
Storm Saulter
#73. I asked God "Why, why, why?" I turned my face away and wished that I were imagining it all. I had tasted the bitterest essence of war, the sight of helpless comrades being slaughtered, and it filled me with disgust.
Eugene B. Sledge
#74. The Filipino mind is always imagining new and exciting ideas while his/her spirit gets the vision for the ultimate victory. It's not that what they wish for is so extraordinary, but that their faith adds to its realization.
Tim Liwanag
#75. I have trouble imagining what I could do that's beyond the practicality of what I can do.
David Byrne
#76. What better motivation is there to get in better shape than imagining your thighs exposed, watusyin' and a shimmyin' all over the stage.
Erica Schroeder
#77. She'd been imagining for the last fifteen or more years that if you disappeared, if you abandoned a wife and child, you did so for a better life: more happiness, more sex, more money, more of whatever was missing from your previous life.
Julian Barnes
#78. I have a lot of trouble with scripts. I have a lot of trouble imagining things while I'm reading them.
Christopher Walken
#79. Imagining what you want as if it already exists opens the door to letting it happen.
Shakti Gawain
#80. You leave space for the body, imagining the other part even though it isn't there.
Henry Moore
#81. Imagining Janet Albright, Matt Kensington's terrifying admin, and Max Ackerman, his limo driver, as a couple wasn't as unlikely a vision as he'd expected. In fact, it might be a mighty interesting combination. 'Course, an explosion was interesting-if you wer outside the blast zone.
Joey W. Hill
#82. Instead of imagining the frightening and the ugly, I will try to find the beautiful in everyday things.
Rosamund Lupton
#83. Self-reflection entails asking yourself questions about your values, assessing your strengths and failures, thinking about your perceptions and interactions with others, and imagining where you want to take your life in the future.
Robert L. Rosen
#84. People have always been good at imagining the end of the world, which is much easier to picture than the strange sidelong paths of change in a world without end.
Rebecca Solnit
#85. But people who think they can project themselves into deafness are mistaken because you can't. And I'm not talking about imagining what a deaf person's whole life is like I even mean just realizing what it is like for an instant.
Richard Masur
#86. I had been foolish in imagining that I had seen anything in it, more than that you were extremely good looking, and that I could paint.
Oscar Wilde
#87. I said 'I was imagining you as a little boy, and as a teenager, and as an old man.'
He said: 'I was looking at you and thinking how young you look, and how old at the same time.
Gwendoline Riley
#88. We were jealous, imagining a boyfriend who wanted you so bad he broke the law.
Emma Cline
#89. Google's founders have had a good eye for imagining what technologies will be significant in the near future. No one asked Google to develop self-driving cars, but it helped them with street views for Google Maps.
Barry Ritholtz
#90. Writers cannot simply have a go, imagining it's easier to produce a story than a novel because fewer words are required. Have a go by all means; be intrepid, but be equipped.
Sarah Hall
#91. My fundamental axiom of speculative philosophy is that materialism and spiritualism are opposite poles of the same absurdity-the absurdity of imagining that we know anything about either spirit or matter.
Thomas Huxley
#92. The logic behind magic is that we create what we are imagining.
Mary Faulkner
#93. You'll spend all day every day imagining ways to make them smile. Imagining what their lips feel like on your. Imagining ways to make them agree to fall as stupidly and painfully in love with you as you have with them.
Frankie Rose
#94. How do we set about not imagining something?
Deborah Levy
#95. We supped at our pints, imagining a whale fighting a giant squid, probably just as thousands of other men in pubs across the land were doing at that moment.
Danny Wallace
#96. Why is thinking about crime or imagining crime so goddamn central to pop culture? It doesn't matter whether it's American TV or British TV. And there's entire sections of bookstores devoted to crime.
Elliott Colla
#97. We knew we were doomed. The kiss was a warm acceptance of years of bickering, years of me consuming foods that I found barely edible and Henry tidying up after someone who already thought she had tidied up. When I kissed Henry I wasn't imagining Ex-boyfriend #13; I was picturing Husband #1.
Lisa Lutz
#98. My imagination is more tweaked by imagining the lives of the people who were there before us. I don't need to give myself the willies. I'm quite good at that - I can freak myself out wherever I am.
Gillian Flynn
#99. I like imagining that he punished his body for me, torturing it into such spectacular shape, hoping that one day I'd be able to appreciate his efforts.
Collette West
#100. We invest the moment with meanings it may not necessarily have. We constrain and limit the potential outcomes by imposing external expectations, by imagining and anticipating how others will see things, what they might say...when in reality none of that might matter." ~Jeremy William Carling
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