“Trying to imagine E. M. Forster, who found Ulysses indecorous, at a London performance of Lenny Bruce—to which in fact he was once taken. Trying to imagine the same for a time-transported Nathaniel Hawthorne—who during his first visit to Europe was even shocked by the profusion of naked statues.” TryingFirstsFactsFoundTakenImagineEuropePerformancesLondonNakedShockedStatuesUlyssesHawthorne Book:The Last Novel Source: The Last Novel
“What I have to tell you is this: I am resolved that dancing is to be my path. I know that to be a dancer is to be considered in our world little more than a prostitute. But you cannot imagine what is happening here in Berlin. It is different back home, but in Europe dance is being reborn as something more than cheap entertainment by loose women.” KnowsWorldLittlesDifferentHomePathImagineHappeningsEuropeDancingEntertainmentDancerOur WorldBerlinBack HomeRebornLoose Women Author:Wendy Buonaventura
“Detroit is really the most perfectly laid out city one could imagine, and such an enchanting park and lake, - infinitely better than any town I know in Europe. It ought to be a paradise in about fifty years when it has all matured.” KnowsYearsCitiesImagineOughtEuropeTownsParadiseParksFiftyLakesDetroitMaturedEnchanting Book:The Essential Elinor Glyn Collection Source: The Essential Elinor Glyn Collection
“Well, I think here there is some money gathered, especially in Europe, through the web, through connection to a network. I mean, imagine that in Brussels there is only one person, one single person, which is monitoring the traffic that goes on on the internet for the jihadist groups. In Strasbourg there are two people. So I mean you can imagine how easy it is to raise money through the net.” PeopleThinkingWellsMeanPersonsTwoEasyImagineGroupsGoes OnInternetEuropeConnectionsRaisesImagine ThatTrafficSingle PersonMonitoringBrussels Author:Loretta Napoleoni
“I believe that the Lord has a plan for each of us that's better than anything we can imagine, even if that plan isn't obvious to us at every stage. He prepared me for this over a long period of time - in lower-profile locker rooms and the grocery store and in Europe, through all the personal tragedies and in spite of the people who doubted me along the way.” PeopleIfsWayBelieveLongI BelieveRoomsLordImaginePlansStagePeriodsEuropeTragedyPreparedObviousStoresSpiteGroceriesProfileDoubtedLockersGrocery StoresLong Periods Of TimeLocker RoomPersonal Tragedy Author:Kurt Warner
“Where people aren't as deeply reliant on fossil fuel as in the United States, it's far easier for them to imagine change on this scale. When you go to Europe, they're much more ready. They use half the amount of energy per capita that we use. They can imagine using less than that. They see the benefits. They're ready to go.” PeopleStatesUseEnergyUnitedHalfUnited StatesImagineReadyAmountEasierBenefitsEuropeScalesFuelFossilsFossil Fuel Author:Bill McKibben
“If educators were really understanding of that, they'd say, "You know what? Forget about bilingual, we're going to do multilingual education." So children are ready for the new millennium. We're way behind compared to countries in Europe. If we were multilingual, imagine how much you would learn about your own culture, about the sensibilities of what's important in your own culture.” IfsKnowsWayChildrenImportantCountryCultureUnderstandingForgetBehindsImagineReadyEuropeSensibilityEducatorWhat's ImportantMillennium Author:Sandra Cisneros
“[John Adams and Tomas Jefferson] shared experience in 1775 - 1776 in bringing about the separation from Britain and their service in Europe cemented a friendship that in the end withstood the most serious political and religious differences that one could imagine, especially their differences over the French Revolution. It was probably Jefferson's obsession with politeness and civility that kept the relationship from becoming irreparably broken.” EndsPoliticalDifferencesReligiousImagineSeriousBrokenRevolutionBecomingEuropeSeparationObsessionBritainCivilityPolitenessFrench RevolutionShared ExperiencesTomas JeffersonReligious Differences Author:Gordon S. Wood
“Moves toward sovereignty in Iraq stimulate pressures first for human rights among the bitterly repressed Shi'ite population but also toward some degree of autonomy. You can imagine a kind of a loose Shi'ite alliance in Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Iran, controlling most of the world's oil and independent of the United States. And much worse, although Europe can be intimidated by the United States, China can't. It's one of the reasons, the main reasons, why China is considered a threat. We're back to the Mafia principle.” WorldFirstsHumansKindStatesReasonMovingUnitedPrinciplesUnited StatesRightsImagineDegreesEuropePressureIndependentThreatHuman RightsIraqPopulationChinaOilReason WhyIranSovereigntyAutonomyMafiaAlliancesIntimidatedArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisRepressed Author:Noam Chomsky
“The funny thing is, nationalism only could have come about in Europe after the invention of printing. You could have this thing that was a book in a vernacular language, and you could imagine there were other readers of this book who you couldn't see, but they were a theoretical union of readers who all use the same language. That is kind of a prerequisite for a national fantasy. You need that thing, and it's a strange thing.” NeedsKindBookUseLanguageFantasyImagineStrangeReaderEuropeUnionsInventionNationalismTheoreticalFunny ThingsPrintingStrange ThingsPrerequisitesVernacular Author:Ben Katchor
“Russia is a part of European culture. Therefore, it is with difficulty that I imagine NATO as an enemy.” CultureEnemyImagineEuropeDifficultyRussiaNato Author:Vladimir Putin
“Imagine - four years you could have spent travelling around Europe meeting people, or going to the Far East of Africa or India, meeting people, exchanging ideas, reading all you wanted to anyway, and instead I wasted it at Roosevelt.” PeopleYearsIdeasWantedReadingFourImagineJourneyEuropeIndiaMeetingsEastFour YearsExchangingExchanging Ideas Author:Shel Silverstein