I Quotes
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“I imagine a child. That child is me. I can reconstruct and vividly remember portions of my own childhood. I can see, taste, smell, feel, and hear them. Then what I do is, not write about that kid or about his world, but start to think of a book that would have pleased him.”
“I imagine a future where many of us will call ourselves dancers and collaborate to make an art which concerns itself with primary areas of life... for me, peace is a communal work process, a collective vision. The dance itself tries to exemplify a few of these methods in a truly grounded and practical way so that the people can say: yes, there are prospects of survival.”
“I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.”
Source: Everything Is Illuminated
“I imagine a school system that recognizes learning is natural, that a love of learning is normal, and that real learning is passionate learning. A school curriculum that values questions above answers...creativity above fact regurgitation...individuality above conformity.. and excellence above standardized performance..... And we must reject all notions of 'reform' that serve up more of the same: more testing, more 'standards', more uniformity, more conformity, more bureaucracy.”
“I imagine a soul is a little perfect crystal egg floating in your chest. Somewhere deeper than where they put your heart. Somewhere so deep inside that the doctors can't find it with all their machines and microcameras.”
Source: The Children and the Wolves
“I imagine a world in which all humans are born with an intact capacity to love, and I am willing to devote my life to making it happen.”
“I imagine an America that can actually change. That we become a nation that prospers again but without pillaging the resources of nations that make their people hate us. That we become a nation that, as the constitution says in its preamble, its very first paragraph, 'promotes the general welfare' of its people.”
“I imagine as an axiom you could say that the better the play, the less "creativity" the director need exert.”
Source: Conversations with Edward Albee
“I imagine as long as people will continue to read novels, people will continue to write them, or vice versa; unless of course the pictorial magazines and comic strips finally atrophy man's capacity to read, and literature really is on its way back to the picture writing in the Neanderthal cave.”
“I imagine everyone wears layered masks, and parades around a variety or panoply of false selves depending on the occasion.”
Source: White Witch in a Black Robe: A True Story About Criminal Mind Control
“I imagine everyone wears layered masks, and parades around a variety or panoply of false selves depending on the occasion. Normal people do that out of their own insecurities and ambitions. Mind-controlled people are hollow because their minds were taken away from them. Their controllers instruct these shells of people about what to do and when. Theirs is institutionalized, manufactured falsity.”
Source: White Witch in a Black Robe: A True Story About Criminal Mind Control
“I imagine Finny and I sneaking out of our houses to fool around at the creek. I imagine leaving my blinds open for him when I change clothes. I imagine his hands moving up my thigh as we watch a movie with a blanket thrown over our laps.
I imagine that even though we were friends as children, we wouldn’t have stayed children just because we were together.”
Source: If He Had Been With Me
“I imagine giving up. No more peering through windows, mourning the loss of a life that could never again be mine. No more hopeless desire. No more uncertain future. No more terror.”
Source: The Stolen Heir
“I imagine God to be like my father. My father was always the voice of certainty in my life. Certainty in the wisdom, certainty in the path, certainty always in God. For me God is certainty in everything. Certainty that everything is good and everything is God.”
“I imagine having that sixth sense, the certainty that what I'm looking for is within reach, even if it's still hidden.”
Source: Sing You Home: A Novel
“I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.”
“I imagine horses in the engine, their manes flying, their breaths steaming, their nostrils flaring as they gallop.”
Source: Before I Die
“I imagine how cool it would be if all small talk wasn't lies.”
“I imagine I shall hunt orchids, in one fashion or another, until the day I die. My father considers the whole thing a mania, and perhaps he's right."
"A mania," she repeated. "Why, that's putting it rather strongly!"
James shrugged. "I'm not so sure. If something brings you more grief and heartache than reward and pleasure, yet you persist in the endeavour anyway, then how else might one describe it?”
Source: The Winter Garden
“I imagine if Spotify becomes something that people are willing to pay for, then I'm sure iTunes will just create their own service, and they're actually fair to artists.”
“I imagine if you had built the Newton Memorial outside Paris ... it would have undoubtedly shown the violence of 1870 and 1914 and 1942 and 1945 - even 1968! Consider building a vast cube of stone merely to register the effects of violence - marked and dated as an indictment.”
“I imagine it great vanity in me to suppose that the Supremely Perfect does in the least regard such an inconsiderable nothing as man. More especially, since it is impossible for me to have any positive, clear idea of that which is infinite and incomprehensible, I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it.”
Source: A Benjamin Franklin Reader
“I imagine it is hard to go back once you've felt the continents in your palm.”
Source: Paper Towns
“I imagine it was much different in the 1970s. That was the Renaissance for black actors, albeit in blaxploitation movies. There was a much greater preponderance of work then than there is now.”
“I imagine John Watson thinks love’s a mystery to me, but the chemistry is incredibly simple and very destructive. When we first met, you told me that a disguise is always a self portrait, how true of you, the combination to your safe – your measurements. But this is far more intimate. This is your heart, and you should never let it rule your head. You could have chosen any random number and walked out of here today with everything you worked for. But you just couldn’t resist it, could you? I’ve always assumed that love is a dangerous disadvantage. Thank you for the final proof.”
“I imagine Johnny Mathis hates Bin Laden as much as I do, but could Johnny agree Bin Laden had a better speechwriter than Bush? "Axis of Evil"? Come on. "A swimmer in the ocean does not fear the rain" is much more powerful propaganda. Poetic, even.”
Source: Role Models
“I imagine like most of us that I'd like obscene amounts of money but the people I met and worked with who have those obscene amounts of money and have obscene amounts of fame have awful lives. Really. I mean hideously compromised lives. And I can go anywhere. No one knows who I am.”
“I imagine many of my fans share a similarly chaotic feeling in their own lives. This album 'ARTPOP was written to make sense of that chaos.”
“I imagine most of that stuff on the information highway is roadkill anyway.”
“I imagine my children are going to save me from my vanity and be my passion and fill whatever fears I have of the amazing time I'm having right now being gone.”
“I imagine my parents would very much relish having an angel for a son. Who, after all, would not?”
Source: Surrender
“I imagine myself as the broadcaster for a Cubs-White Sox World Series, a Series that would last seven games, with the final game going extra innings before being suspended because of darkness at Wrigley Field.”
“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”
“I imagine our first glimpse of Heaven will cause us to gasp in amazement and delight. That first gasp will likely be followed by many more as we continually encounter new sights in that endlessly wonderful place.”
Source: Heaven
“I imagine people might look at me and think 'Oh, she has been single-mindedly working on her career all these years and those family issues have fallen by the wayside', but that is absolutely not the case.”
“I imagine some artists like myself love the spotlight. It is a beautiful thing to have your art recognised. for it to be admired like a flower in the field. But I wonder, does a flower know it’s a marvel? Does it feel pleasure to be adored? Does it realise when it’s been cut? that it’s been commodified, that an entire value chain exists around it, that hands will decide its worth or would it prefer to be left alone, admired from a distance, its petals untouched, for the bees, for the air. I wonder…”
“I imagine standing in the center of this house of mirrors and looking at my infinite reflections.
Each of the personalities we live, if they are just reflections on the mirror, then they are illusions. What we strive for is to unlearn the vocabulary, energy, and awareness of each of these reflections to reach our dissolving ‘self’, the one standing in the center. The observer.”
Source: Buddha's House of Mirrors
“I imagine that a minority of people were born to be active participants, while a majority were meant to be passive observers.”
Source: Stamerenophobia
“I imagine that all Americans have a unique relationship in their individual present to their collective past and how that relationship might shape their identities and experiences.”
“I imagine that as contemporary music goes on changing in the way that I'm changing it what will be done is to more and more completely liberate sounds from abstract ideas about them and more and more exactly to let them be physically uniquely themselves. This means for me: knowing more and more not what I think a sound is but what it actually is in all of its acoustical details and then letting this sound exist, itself, changing in a changing sonorous environment.”
“I [imagine] that every new book, or antique one, may contain the “Open Sesame”—the spell to disclose treasures, hidden in some unsuspected cave of Truth.”
Source: Mosses from an Old Manse
“I imagine that fish have no word for water.”
Source: Small Gods: (Discworld Novel 13)
“I imagine that in a closed, hermetic society like the mob, where everybody knows each other, it must be really, really unpleasant to have to kill people. It's the sort of thing you really want to avoid.”
“I imagine that is I asked, she'd roll with me right here until we turned her white gown green and then thank me for the honour of my favour.' He smiles, going in for the kill, leaning toward me as if confiding a secret. 'Not that I'd be the first to green gown her.”
Source: The Cruel Prince
“I imagine that it saddens the heart of God when we murmur and complain, instead of being thankful after He's been so good to us.”
“I imagine that it will not be easy to persuade Mortmain into a bonnet," Magnus observed. "Though the color would be fetching on him." Henry burst into laughter. "Very droll, Mr. Bane." "Please, call me Magnus." "I shall!”
Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess
“I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal”
“I imagine that no art has ever been learned from books. fly-fishing is no exception.”
“I imagine that one of the biggest troubles with colleges is there are too many distractions, too much panty-raiding, fraternities, and boola-boola and all of that.”
Source: The Autobiography of Malcolm X
“I imagine that people see me as they would see me if I were the man that I want to be.”