Imagine Quotes - page 3

A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traitor to his class. It is middle-class people who, quite mistakenly, imagine that a lively pursuit of the latest in reading and painting will advance their status in the world. (Mary McCarthy)
I imagine that yes is the only living thing. View quote
E. E. Cummings
I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got. View quote
Walter Cronkite
Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise. View quote
George Orwell
We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer. View quote
Jules Verne
I can imagine no greater disservice to the country than to establish a system of censorship that would deny to the people of a free republic like our own their indisputable right to criticise their own public officials. While exercising the great powers of the office I hold, I would regret in a crisis like the one through which we are now passing to lose the benefit of patriotic and intelligent criticism. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already. We have the power to imagine better. View quote
J. K. Rowling
The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy. View quote
Albert Camus
It's a pity one can't imagine what one can't compare to anything. Genius is an African who dreams up snow. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
God always punishes us for what we can't imagine. View quote
Stephen King
The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember. (Harold Pinter)
It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy. View quote
Franz Liszt
To know is nothing at all to imagine is everything. View quote
Anatole France
This type of man who is devoted to the study of wisdom is always most unlucky in everything, and particularly when it comes to procreating children I imagine this is because Nature wants to ensure that the evils of wisdom shall not spread further throughout mankind. View quote
Desiderius Erasmus
Space is as infinite as we can imagine, and expanding this perspective is what adjusts humankind's focus on conquering our true enemies, the formidable foes: ignorance and limitation. View quote
Vanna Bonta
I can imagine nothing more terrifying than an Eternity filled with men who were all the same. The only thing which has made life bearable...has been the diversity of creatures on the surface of the globe. View quote
T. H. White
I just like observing people - it's something I've done ever since I was a kid, and I got really good at it. That's a big part of why I became a comedian. My audience is filled with every kind of person you can imagine, and I love that. View quote
Ellen DeGeneres
You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful. View quote
Ellen DeGeneres
When a man is trying to sell you something, don't imagine that he is polite all the time. View quote
E. W. Howe
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose. View quote
Brian Tracy
Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage. (Sydney J. Harris)
I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake. View quote
René Descartes
People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too. View quote
Christopher Morley
Then he asked if I didn't like things changing. And I said I wouldn't mind things changing if I became an astronaut, for example, which is one of the biggest changes you can imagine, apart from becoming a girl or dying. View quote
Mark Haddon
If you're lucky, and a building succeeds, the real product has many more dimensions than you can ever imagine. You have the sun, the light, the rain, the birds, the feel. View quote
Peter Zumthor