Imagine That Quotes - Page 2

• You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Inspiring, Meaningful

  Mark Twain (1889). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.422, Createspace Independent Pub

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• To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.

  Anatole France

  Life, Beautiful, Business

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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  Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Death, Men, Two

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• I can well imagine that certain writers, even writers that we'd consider today very great writers, may not necessarily have tested highly on IQ just because of their numerical skills, or maybe they may not be very good at memory, and are not particularly good at these kinds of tests.

  Daniel Tammet

  Memories, Skills, May

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• I can imagine that Rod Stewart likes giving autographs because he's pure showbusiness.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Giving, Likes, Imagine

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• In 1976, Jimmy Carter - peanut farmer; carried his own suitcase, imagine that - somewhat tapped America's durable but shallow reservoir of populism. By 1980, ordinariness in high office had lost its allure.

  George Will

  America, Office, Suitcases

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• This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air.

  William Butler Yeats

  Air, Soul, London

  William Butler Yeats, Richard J. Finneran (1969). “John Sherman & Dhoya”

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• Now this is the first rule of fight club: There is nothing a blue collar Nobody in Oregon with a public school education can imagine that a million-billion people haven't already done.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  School, Fighting, Oregon

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• Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them peace and rest at last. Imagine that you are doing this but that it is essential and inevitable to torture to death only one tiny creature...in order to found that edifice on its unavenged tears. Would you consent to be the architect on those conditions? Tell me. Tell the truth.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Destiny, Men, Order

  "The Brothers Karamazov". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, part 2, book 5, chapter 4, p. 291, 1945.

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• Imagination is the politics of dreams; imagination turns every word into a bottle rocket. . . . Imagine every day is Independence Day and save us from traveling the river changed; save us from hitchhiking the long road home. Imagine an escape. Imagine that your own shadow on the wall is a perfect door. Imagine a song stronger than penicillin. Imagine a spring with water that mends broken bones. Imagine a drum which wraps itself around your heart. Imagine a story that puts wood in the fireplace.

  Sherman Alexie

  Dream, Song, Wall

  FaceBook post by Sherman Alexie from Jun 13, 2016

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• I felt as if I was the only person awake in a city of sleepwalkers. That's an illusion, of course. When you walk through a crowd of strangers it's next door to impossible not to imagine that they're all waxworks, but probably they're thinking just the same about you.

  George Orwell

  Thinking, Doors, Cities

  George Orwell (1976). “The Penguin complete novels of George Orwell”

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• Do you know, I always imagine that the subway trains are dragons,' Rose said to Bear as they clung to his coat for support in the swaying car. 'Tearing back and forth across the city in their underground caves, devouring people and spitting them out at random destinations.

  Regina Doman

  Dragons, Cities, People

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• Imagine that everything you are typing is being read by the person you are applying to for your first job. Imagine that it's all going to be seen by your parents and your grandparents and your grandchildren as well.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Jobs, Grandchildren, Grandparent

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• When you have kids, you instantly feel that you do not want to do them wrong. Those dads that go off to Florida and start a new life, I couldn’t imagine that: seeing my kid once every Christmas, every three years. If I’m gone for six days it feels like too much.

  Adam Carolla

  Christmas, Dad, Kids

  "‘How Dare You!’: Q&A with Adam Carolla". Interview with Joshua Kors, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2010.

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• What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.

  Stephen Leacock

  Motivational, Teamwork, Years

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• Imagine that human existence is defined by an Ache: the Ache of our not being, each of us, the center of the universe; of our desires forever outnumbering our means of satisfying them.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Mean, Forever, Desire

  Jonathan Franzen (2007). “How to Be Alone: Essays”, p.70, Macmillan

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• In the future, I can imagine that we will genetically modify ourselves using the genes that have doubled our life span since we were chimpanzees.

  Michio Kaku

  Imagine, Genes, Chimpanzees

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• The first play I did was 'Philadelphia Here I Come.' Can you imagine that? I am 37 years old I am doing my second professional play and I am on stage with John Malkovich. Joan Allen, Laurie Metcalf and Gary Sinise. One huge name after another. I was terrified and petrified, could hardly get a word out of my mouth.

  John Mahoney

  Philadelphia, Years, Play

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• Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it,- without having regard to any religion or opinion.

  Maimonides

  Understanding, Opinion, Philosopher

  Moses Maimonides (2016). “Guide for the perplexed”, p.283, Moses Maimonides

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• I would imagine that anyone picking up a book written by me would expect a fast-paced story that requires minimal effort to turn the pages. The reader would also be looking for some out-of-the-ordinary revelations along the way. At the end of the day, I'm a writer who simply loves revealing stuff that is out-of-the-ordinary.

  Ashwin Sanghi

  Book, Effort, The End Of The Day

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• I'm one of the most adaptable guys I know in as much as travelling is my favourite thing to do in life. With every place I go, I try to stay there long enough to do it justice, long enough so that I can at least imagine what it would be like to live there. Once I imagine that, then it's OK for me to return home.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Home, Long, Justice

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• If you read the 'Daily Mail,' you would imagine that the British middle classes lead lives of unremitting misery.

  Simon Hoggart

  Class, Daily Mail, Misery

  "Glad tidings we bring ..." by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2004.

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• That's what fantasies are for, to help us imagine that things are better than they are.

  Roger Ebert

  Helping, Fantasy, Imagine

  Roger Ebert (2012). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.414, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• You imagine that there's no use struggling against fate, that she will always have her way, no matter what we do. But don't you see? It's our very efforts to cheat fate, or to change it, that make things come to pass in the way they were meant to.

  Gary L. Blackwood

  Struggle, Fate, Effort

  Gary L. Blackwood (2003). “Shakespeare's Spy”, Dutton Childrens Books

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• I always imagine that if I met Dr. Seuss, he would be very similar to Crispin Glover.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Drs, Would Be, Imagine

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