Reimagined Quotes

#1. 'Birdman' is basically 'All About Eve' - the 1950 comedy about rehearsal rivalries in a Broadway show, and another Best Picture laureate - reimagined as a Batman suicide mission. The movie couldn't be actor-ier.

Richard Corliss

#2. The Statue of Liberty was so resonantly reimagined as a monument to immigration that few remember it was built as an anti-slavery monument, uniting Republican France and the victorious Union

Anonymous

#3. I'm used to comic books being reimagined, different takes on some of our beloved superheroes.

Len Wiseman

#4. Our whole childhood remains to be reimagined. In reimagining it, we have the possibility of recovering it in the very life of our reveries as a solitary child.

Gaston Bachelard

#5. Hell is reimagined by each generation. Its terrain is surveyed for absurdities and remade in a fresher mold; its terrors are scrutinized and, if necessary, reinvented to suit the current climate of atrocity; its architecture is redesigned to appall the eye of the modern damned.

Clive Barker

#6. If you die without agency as a child, but you have agency in your body [in the novel], how is it to be enacted unless it is being reimagined by a writer?

Fred D'Aguiar

#7. I excavate history. I look at lives buried under too much silence. Periods of time, like slavery, have to be revisited, reimagined, so we can move through them.

Yusef Komunyakaa

#8. Write drunk (on emotion); edit sober (on rationality and intention).
Faulkner, reimagined by me.

Christina Cooke

#9. Shut up and do not think. All the theorists agree: shut up and keep the words from being said. And all of the scars will remain invisible; and all of the scars will remain under the skin. Where they belong.

Alice Hoffman

#10. Love is a trance which oscillates between hormones and emotions.

Chandan Sharma

#11. Indeed, Miss Manners has come to believe that the basic political division in this country is not between liberals and conservatives but between those who believe that they should have a say in the love lives of strangers and those who do not.

Judith Martin

#12. It's also important to remember that no one is "the bad guy" or "the best friend" or "the whore with a heart of gold" in real life; in real life we each of us regard ourselves as the main character, the protagonist, the big cheese; the camera is on us, baby.

Stephen King

#13. The Secret of Life?
The energy you give out to others attracts more of the same energy back to you

Steven Aitchison

#14. One curious thing about Apollo 11: while it was happening, no one knew for sure exactly where Eagle had actually landed!

John W. Young

#15. Life is the most precious of all treasures. Even one extra day of life is worth more than ten million ryo of gold.

Nichiren

#16. What the Greeks and Romans considered myths, we consider fairy tales. We can see how very clearly the myths, which emanated from all cultures, had a huge influence on the development of the modern fairy tale.

Jack Zipes

#17. The areas off the greens are masterpieces. I don't think there's anything like it in North America.

Ben Crenshaw

#18. A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.

Lafcadio Hearn

#19. The more desperately we try to be good and wonderful and perfect, the more the Shadow develops a definite will to be black and evil and destructive

Haruki Murakami

#20. Healing is not always obtained by saying a prayer. It is obtained by obeying God

John G. Lake

#21. At the top, he dipped the tip of his tongue in and tasted Caleb's essence. Delicious. Another jewel-like drop appeared, as if by magic. Matt stole it as well.

Dan Skinner

#22. Wait until you are hungry to say something, until there is an aching in you to speak.

Natalie Goldberg