“I'm bored by repeating myself, and I would imagine that an audience would be bored by me repeating myself.” Would BeAudienceImagineBoredImagine That Author:John C. Reilly
“While millions of American families, including mine and yours, were working hard paying our fair share, it seems Donald Trump was contributing nothing to our nation. Imagine that. Not fair. Nothing for Pell grants to help kids go to college. Nothing for veterans. Nothing for our military.” HardHelpingSeemsKidsNationsMillionsImagineShareMilitaryMinesCollegeTrumpFairsIncludingGrantsImagine ThatVeteranContributingNot FairFair ShareAmerican FamilyPell Grants Author:Hillary Clinton
“I've never been to a Hollywood party, although I imagine that it might be fun.” MightFunPartyImagineHollywoodImagine That Author:Chrissie Hynde
“I'd like to imagine that "dreamoir" becomes a subgenre of nonfiction, maybe ultimately because I'd love to read many more dreamoirs by other writers - poets and memoirists especially.” ImaginePoetNonfictionImagine ThatLove To Read Author:Wendy C. Ortiz
“That was an amazing experience [making Dream of Life]. It's hard to imagine that we were editing every day for a year. And it was pretty extraordinary; it also went by super fast. But every day was an experiment.” YearsHardDreamImagineExtraordinaryExperimentsImagine ThatEditingAmazing Experiences Author:Steven Sebring
“There is progress in the sense that the Prime Minister [Shinzō Abe] has proposed, outlined, as it were, directions for movement toward a peace treaty and the resolution of issues related to territorial problems. Now, what did he propose? He proposed promoting an environment of trust and cooperation. I believe it is even hard to imagine that it can be any different, that we can agree to sign the documents that we are talking about without trusting each other or without cooperation. That is simply impossible even to imagine.” BelieveDifferentHardProblemI BelieveTalkingIssuesEnvironmentImagineProgressImpossibleMovementAgreeMinistersRelatedResolutionPrimeCooperationImagine ThatDocumentsPrime MinisterPromotingProposeTreatiesTerritorialAbeWithout TrustPeace TreatiesTrusting Each Other Author:Vladimir Putin
“I was watching a documentary that during the Bay of Pigs crisis JFK had about two weeks before anybody reported on it. Imagine that. I think it's fair to say that if something like that happens under a current president, they've got to figure out in about an hour what their response is.” IfsThinkingTwoHappensPresidentHoursImagineWeekFiguresFairsCrisisResponseCurrentsImagine ThatPigsDocumentariesTwo WeeksBay Of Pigs Author:Barack Obama
“I can't imagine that I would be asked that by the president-elect [Donald Trump], or then-president [Barack Obama]. But it's - I'm very clear. I voted for the change that put the Army Field Manual in place as a member of Congress. I understand that law very, very quickly and am also deeply aware that any changes to that will come through Congress and the president.” I CanWould BeLawPresidentClearImagineFieldsTrumpMembersArmyCongressBarackImagine ThatManualsPresident Barack ObamaCongress And The President Author:James Mattis
“People almost always imagine that life is going to be better in town and that the streets of the town are paved with gold.” PeopleLife IsImagineStreetsGoldTownsImagine That Author:Desmond Tutu
“I think if more people would understand how simple and what really feminism is, I would imagine that most men I know are feminists without verbalising or saying so.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsMenSimpleImagineFeminismFeministImagine That Author:Hozier
“Imagine that Queen Elizabeth I, in her time, had the opportunity to give out a monopoly for playing cards within the kingdom. She knew she was going to give it to one of her courtiers. These courtiers would then all try to curry her favour. Meanwhile, they would not contribute anything to the product of the kingdom, in fact, they were wasting resources trying to secure a single prize. That, more or less, is rent seeking.” GivingTryingFactsOpportunityImagineProductsResourcesSeekingKingdomsCardsSecureQueensPrizeImagine ThatFavourMonopolyCurryPlaying CardsQueen ElizabethCourtiers Author:James M. Buchanan
“Trump's election is generally bad news.... In international policy, one can imagine that if Trump were foolish enough to go ahead with his pledge to move the American Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, it would be widely experienced throughout the Islamic world as a provocation.” IfsWorldEnoughWould BeMovingImaginePolicyTrumpNewsElectionInternationalFoolishIslamicImagine ThatPledgeBad NewsJerusalemProvocationEmbassy Author:Richard A. Falk
“Let's say you don't want to stress the urgency of the gospel. Imagine that you are a hyper-Calvinist, and you just figure that people's salvation is a matter for the sovereignty of God. Well, if that's the case, there will never be the heartfelt pleading that you would see in a Spurgeon or an Edwards, or in the Apostle Paul where he pours out his heart in Romans 9 and 10 for the Jewish people.” PeopleIfsWantWellsHeartMatterCasesImagineFiguresStressSalvationImagine ThatSovereigntyApostlesUrgencyHeartfeltHyperPleadingSovereignty Of GodApostle PaulSpurgeon Author:Mark Dever
“The mythology around colorblindness leads people to imagine that if poor kids of color are failing or getting locked up in large numbers, it must be something wrong with them. It leads young kids of color to look around and say: "There must be something wrong with me, there must be something wrong with us. Is there something inherent, something different about me, about us as a people, that leads us to fail so often, that leads us to live in these miserable conditions, that leads us to go in and out of prison?"” PeopleIfsLooksDifferentKidsYoungPoorNumbersImagineFailingConditionsColorPrisonMythologyMiserableLockedImagine ThatInherentLarge NumbersLocked Up Author:Michelle Alexander
“The people who are getting rich can't imagine that the world is not a better place.” PeopleWorldRichImagineImagine ThatBetter PlaceGet Rich Author:Arundhati Roy
“The paralysis that we have right now when we think about migration is partly because we can't imagine what the world would look like in the future. So I think it's important for writers and artists to try to imagine that.” ThinkingWorldTryingLooksImportantArtistImagineRight NowImagine ThatMigrationParalysis Author:Mohsin Hamid
“I still think, despite everything, that the US is very unlikely to attack Iran. It could be a huge catastrophe; nobody knows what the consequences would be. I imagine that only an administration that's really desperate would resort to that.” ThinkingKnowsStillsWould BeImagineHugeConsequenceDespiteAdministrationDesperateIranImagine ThatCatastropheResortsUnlikelyNobody Knows Author:Noam Chomsky
“When I read to children, I try to become the characters. It's great if you can make a separate voice for each character. Sometimes you can lower your voice with excitement or get more intimate about it: you can lean forward and engage the children as a narrator or as a reader. It's particularly important that you find the voice that you want to use for each character, because then children can imagine that person as you're reading aloud. And of course, the illustrations help enormously.” IfsWantTryingChildrenPersonsImportantSometimesCharacterHelpingUseCoursesReadingVoiceImagineReaderExcitementIntimateImagine ThatIllustrationNarratorsReading Aloud Author:Julie Andrews
“All the unimaginative assholes in the world who imagine that Shakespeare couldn't have written Shakespeare because it was impossible from what we know about Shakespeare of Stratford that such a man would have had the experience to imagine such things - well, this denies the very thing that separates Shakespeare from almost every other writer in the world: an imagination that is untouchable and nonstop.” KnowsMenWorldWellsImaginationImagineImpossibleWrittenDenyImagine ThatUntouchables Author:John Irving
“My hunch, for what it's worth, is that most of us probably find it much, much harder than we realize to really imagine what catastrophe is like. I have a hunch that we all labor under this rather convenient illusion that if we read about the Syrian refugee crisis, we can imagine what it feels like to set off from your home and your life with all your possessions in two bin liners. We all think that we can imagine that and my guess is that none of us have got a clue.” IfsThinkingFeelsTwoHomeRealizingImagineIllusionLaborHarderCrisisPossessionImagine ThatCatastropheClueRefugeeConvenientHunchesRefugee CrisisSyrian Refugees Author:Decca Aitkenhead
“Spiritual truth is something that is so far from us - without any form or name that we can imagine - that we need the things that religions gave us simply as images and metaphors. But they can be found in a variety of ways. It's not a question of religious practice.” WayNeedsSpiritualFormFoundNamesReligiousPracticeImagineTruth IsMetaphorVarietyImagine ThatSpiritual TruthReligious Practices Author:Eugene Green
“As a child, I remember asking my parents when I was five years old, "How come if you are not Zionists, you came to the country?" I was surprised at myself that I asked this question. It means that it was always in the air. Then years later I understood it was because of the Holocaust, because they were refugees. They did not come as immigrants and, because of the illusions of the '50s and the late '40s, my mother said, "The world must be better." She could not imagine that it wouldn't be different.” IfsWorldYearsMeanChildrenSaidDifferentCountryRememberMotherParentFiveImagineAirLateIllusionUnderstoodAskingFive YearsImmigrantsHolocaustImagine ThatRefugeeZionistFive Year Olds Author:Amira Hass
“If you imagine that everything is an exchange, then we're supposed to just transact and walk away. If we haven't walked away and we still have a relationship, it's because there's a debt.” IfsStillsWalksImagineHavensDebtImagine That Author:David Graeber
“It's a mistake to expect the laws of the country to reflect the imperatives of the New Testament and the Sermon on the Mount. I applaud the efforts of the Church to provide for people in need, regardless of where they're from or how they got here. But I think it's a mistake to turn around and expect a nation to act that way. Americans are uniquely tempted to imagine that we are a church, and that we are a universal nation. This is one of the reasons why we're such a dangerous country.” PeopleThinkingCountryReasonChurchEffortMistakeImagineDangerousImagine ThatNew Testament Author:Kelefa Sanneh
“When you're in pajamas that are sagging in the ass because you've got a battery pack that's weighing them down, and covered in 2,000 LEDs, and your face has 150 black dots on it, and you're probably standing in six-inch heels, it is a big challenge to imagine that you're the master of the universe when the rest of your cast members are laughing their ass off at you. So there's no question that there was a very difficult task that I had, but it wasn't living up to somebody else's expectations of the story. I was just trying to do the screenplay that was written.” TryingUniverseDifficultBlackChallengesLaughingImagineExpectationsAssYour FaceImagine ThatHeels Author:Billy Crudup
“People think of a parasite as simply taking money, taking blood out of a host or taking money out of the economy. But in nature it's much more complicated. The parasite can't simply come in and take something. First of all, it needs to numb the host. It has an enzyme so that the host doesn't realize the parasite's there. And then the parasites have another enzyme that takes over the host's brain. It makes the host imagine that the parasite is part of its own body, actually part of itself and hence to be protected. That’s basically what Wall Street has done.” PeopleThinkingDoneRealizingBrainEconomyImagineWallComplicatedHostImagine ThatNumb Author:Michael Hudson
“When people ask about the aspect of race in the work, they are looking for very simple or easy answers. Part of it is when you think other people are so different than yourself, you imagine that their thoughts aren't the same. When I think about thought, I think about how much there is that is common.” PeopleThinkingDifferentEasySimpleCommonImagineImagine That Author:Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
“Generally, if you look at present-day trends, you can predict the future. Very few people do that, because I've been told that only 3 to 5 percent of people are aware of being a part of history; the overwhelming majority think things will always be the way they are now. When Stalin was alive, most people could not imagine that he would ever die. Same under Brezhnev.” PeopleThinkingImagineOverwhelmingImagine That Author:Vladimir Voinovich
“I think that right now the West understands Russia better than before and feels a much greater wariness toward it. I think that, if anything, Russia's sinister nature is exaggerated, in that most contemporary analysts in the West can't even imagine that Russia could be different. I think it can, with a different turn of events.” ThinkingDifferentImagineImagine ThatSinister Author:Vladimir Voinovich
“I find Billy Eichner to be hilarious, though I also imagine that for many, a little goes a long way. Billy provides a kind of comedy the Parks and Recreations show did not have - an insane person screaming at everyone, and our job going forward, as it is with all of our characters, is to develop him and make him more three dimensional.” KindLongCharacterComedyImagineInsaneImagine That Author:Michael Schur
“I can't imagine that being in the Trump Cabinet will be a very important job. I do think this will be a White House-run administration with a teeny-tiny group of people surrounding him, including his family maybe.” PeopleThinkingImportantImagineImagine That Author:David Brooks
“Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie. I say this as someone who would rather read comics than watch movies, listen to music, anything. But it's not an operatic medium. I hear other people talk about being moved to tears by comics. I can't imagine that.” PeopleMovingNovelImagineTearsMovedImagine ThatListening To Music Author:Daniel Clowes
“Donald Trump behaving like a wild man. I mean, I just can`t imagine that people want a human tornado sitting in the oval office.” PeopleMenMeanImagineOfficeImagine That Author:William Weld
“I think we need to make documentaries about fantasy and storytelling. I think I just started to scratch the surface of a method that allows us to do that. We want to be sucked into the events, suspend our disbelief and imagine that this is a fiction, but actually putting onscreen the gap between who the people are and who they want to be and therefore opening the question about why they want to be this person.” PeopleThinkingFantasyImagineStorytellingImagine ThatDisbelief Author:Joshua Oppenheimer
“You can ask yourself, if a film makes a claim, is the claim true or false? Having said that, a style of presenting material doesn't guarantee truth. There's this crazy idea that somehow you pick a style, and by virtue of picking the style, you've provided something that is more truthful. It's as if you imagine that changing the font on a sentence you write makes it more truthful.” WritingFilmVirtueImagineCrazyStyleTruthfulImagine ThatPresenting Author:Errol Morris
“It's hard to imagine that there are people in the country that have types of hateful, inexcusable, racist, white supremacist views.” PeopleCountryImagineRacistImagine ThatHateful Author:Sean Hannity
“Corporations did not achieve the scale we normally associate with them until the 1880s; but it's still hard to imagine that Abraham Lincoln would offered much in the way of determined opposition. William Herndon said that they always thanked the Lord when a corporation came knocking at their office door to hire them.” LordImagineAchieveOfficeDeterminedImagine That Author:Allen C. Guelzo
“Look at the great athletes, musician, artists, and writers. They all tap into a source. Some call that source God or soul or spirit or consciousness. The Seven Faces of Intention: creativity, kindness, love, beauty, expansion, abundance, and receptivity. And all seven are expressions of what I imagine that source to look like. The very fact that we exist is proof to me that the nature of that source is creative at its core. And there isn't a person reading this who does not have a gnawing sense inside that there's something they're here to do, something creative.” SoulSpiritArtistReadingLove IsConsciousnessCreativityKindnessCreativeImagineMusicianIntentionSevenAthleteAbundanceImagine ThatGreat AthleteReceptivity Author:Wayne Dyer
“Otherwise the history just gets completely flattened out, and people imagine that everything was always available and accessible. One of the things that struck me was the way in which the landscape of experimental music seemed different at different points in time, on the basis of where one was situated geographically, if one had access to live performances, and what was released at a particular time.” PeopleDifferentImagineImagine That Author:David Grubbs
“I imagine witches to be people who sit around like my witty grandmother, people who are injustice collectors or humiliation collectors. I choose to imagine that's what a witch is. The reason witches are so evil is because they're so unhappy and so hurt.” PeopleReasonEvilHurtImagineInjusticeWittyUnhappyGrandmotherWitchImagine ThatHumiliation Author:Lore Segal
“There's the fact that American fiction is basically the most apolitical fiction on the globe. A South American writer wouldn't dare think of writing a novel if it didn't allude to the system into which these people are orchestrated - or an Eastern European writer, or a Russian writer, or a Chinese writer. Only American writers are able to imagine that the government and the corporations - all of it - seem to have no effect whatsoever.” PeopleThinkingWritingNovelImagineDareChineseImagine ThatEasternAmerican WriterApolitical Author:Michael Cunningham
“In countries like Afghanistan, the corruption is in your face. In Nigeria, I heard of judges making sex the bargaining chip rather than money. Now let's put that in the context of an honor-based society. Imagine that you're the brother of a woman who got raped by a judge to have her case heard in court. What do you want to do? You want to kill the judge. So here is an insurgent movement that hands you a gun. You have rage, and they give you an outlet for your rage.” GivingCountryImagineBrotherJudgingGunCorruptionRageYour FaceAfghanistanImagine ThatNigeriaInsurgent Author:Sarah Chayes
“I've never been the president of anything, but I would imagine that in ways it could be a very isolating experience, because you're ensconced in the halls of power and every stop and visit is so orchestrated and someone is choosing what you're going to see.” PresidentImagineImagine That Author:Jesmyn Ward
“For ten years, I wrote regular columns about science for women's magazines, and to my knowledge I'm the only person in the world who can say that. This has no kudos in either the science-writing world or the academic world, but it's one of the most challenging things I've ever done. It's much harder to write about cosmology for a magazine like Vogue than for the New York Times, which I've also written for, because you have to imagine that on the page opposite there'll be an advertisement for eyeliner, or an article about the latest trends in skirt length.” WorldWritingDoneChallengesImagineAcademicImagine ThatCosmologyVogue Author:Margaret Wertheim
“Victor Hugo said you can stop an invasion of armies, but you can never stop an invasion of ideas. There's nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come. It wasn't until 1920, four years after my mother was born - and she's still alive and healthy - that women were given the right to vote. Now it's hard even to imagine that for the greater part of the history of our country fifty percent of the population was not allowed to vote.” CountryMotherPowerfulImagineHealthyVoteArmyImagine ThatRight To Vote Author:Wayne Dyer
“I was a fireman. I lived in the fire station for about a year. The pay wasn't so good. It was kind of like being in the army, or what I imagine that would be like.” KindImagineArmyImagine ThatFireman Author:Tom Waits
“Obviously, Donald Trump won't be impeached or removed so long as the Republicans hold even one House of Congress. And even should they lose both in November of 2018, launching an impeachment - as the Republicans discovered with Bill Clinton - is very dangerous to the impeaching party. Unless you have a highly credible set of extremely damning facts, you turn a constitutional crisis into a political crisis. You rally potential supporters of the impeached president to him. You make his base bigger. So I imagine that he is likely to serve out the full term.” LongPoliticalHousePresidentTermPartyImagineDangerousRepublicanCrisisClintonImagine ThatSupporterNovember Author:David Frum
“Beyond the earliest days of the religion, early Christians were believers because they'd been converted, not because they were witnesses to supernatural events, just like today. The 9/11 hijackers believed in Paradise for martyrs, but that doesn't mean that that's true. We have no good reason to imagine that eyewitnesses wrote the gospels rather than someone simply documenting the Jesus story as it had developed within their church community.” MeanReasonTodayChristianJesusCommunityChurchImagineBelieverWitnessImagine ThatMartyr Author:Robert B. Seidensticker
“The Christian claim is: Nothing explains the facts better than an all-powerful, all-knowing, omnipresent god creating the universe and sending Jesus to spread his message. This is about as remarkable a claim as could be stated, and yet it is tossed out lightly. Christians seem to imagine that "God did it" is as plausible as the natural explanation that stories grow with the retelling. The Christian has the burden of proof, and it's an enormous burden given this enormous claim.” ChristianUniverseJesusNaturalImagineBurdenSpreadExplanationRemarkableImagine That Author:C. S. Lewis
“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.” YearsMotivationalLastsMotivationWorkEconomyCreativeImagineOughtFiftyTeamworkImagine ThatCreative Work Author:Stephen Leacock