“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
“Do not imagine that I would disregard that thing that lies beneath the mask... but be sure that when the outside is rightly seen, the thing that lies under the surface will be found upon your canvas.” LyingFoundImagineSurfaceMaskImagine ThatCanvasDisregard Author:William Merritt Chase
“I have made a solemn vow never to send my drawings because people have cheated me. In particular, just today I found... that, having done a drawing of souls in Purgatory for the Bishop of St. Gata, he, in order to spend less, commissioned another painter to do the painting using my work. If I were a man, I can't imagine it would have turned out this way.” PeopleIfsMenWayMadeI CanSoulDoneTodayOrderFoundImagineParticularPaintingDrawingPainterVowSolemnBishopsCheatedPurgatory Author:Artemisia Gentileschi
“Imagine, if you can, what the rest of the evening was like. How they crouched by the fire which blazed and leaped and made much of itself in the little grate. How they removed the covers of the dishes, and found rich, hot savory soup, which was a meal in itself, and sandwiches and toast and muffins enough for both of them.” IfsLittlesMadeEnoughFoundRichFireImagineHotEveningMealsDishesSoupSandwichesToastsMuffinsSavoryGrate Book:A Little Princess Source: A Little Princess
“I think one of the great joys of being a writer is you can transcend everything, even your own sex, what century you live in, and how you think. I found it quite natural to think as a male because I actually think that as a female, one often thinks in the mind of a male in terms of eroticism. You think about what the other person feels. So it's not that hard to imagine being that person.” ThinkingFeelsMindPersonsHardJoyFoundSexTermNaturalImagineCenturyFemaleMalesGreat Joy Author:Rebecca Miller
“If I found myself married with children and had tons of puppies and a fun place to live, I imagine I'd be happier, but I kind of like being a little bit isolated and lonely.” IfsKindChildrenLittlesFoundFunBitsImagineMarriedLittle BitLonelyIsolatedPuppyPlaces To LiveMarried With Children Author:Moby
“I found out that detectives are really good dressers. I'm not even exaggerating. The woman I interviewed had these fantastic fuschia suede heels on that I coveted. And that they're invested in their jobs the same way you and I might be. We think of them as doing these jobs that we could never imagine doing, but their relationship to what they do is the same as our relationship to what we do.” ThinkingWayMightJobsFoundImagineFantasticHeelsOur RelationshipDetectivesExaggeratingDressers Author:Kristin Lehman
“I think professional cosmonaut trainer in fact said that we are the only two [with Damian Kulash ] he found fit to be astronauts, which is ridiculous because we are far from fit from being astronauts. So you can imagine what was going on up there.” ThinkingSaidTwoFactsFoundImagineFitRidiculousAstronautTrainers Author:Trish Sie
“There is a relative order to the fossilized species of plants found in the geologic record for which Flood Geology cannot account, unless you can imagine apple and orange trees with Nike sneakers on their roots, racing past the magnolias and primitive mammals, leaving the ginkgoes back there with the dinosaurs when the Flood waters began to rise.” PastOrderFoundWaterRecordsImagineTreeEvolutionRootsAccountsPlantSpeciesLeavingApplesRacingRelativePrimitiveFloodOrangeDinosaursGeologyMammalsSneakersNikeMagnoliasApples And OrangesOrange Trees Author:Frank Zindler
“25 million of Russian people suddenly turned out to be outside the borders of the Russian Federation. They used to live in one state; the Soviet Union has traditionally been called Russia, the Soviet Russia, and it was the great Russia. Then the Soviet Union suddenly fell apart, in fact, overnight, and it turned out that in the former Soviet Union republics there were 25 million Russians. They used to live in one country and suddenly found themselves abroad. Can you imagine how many problems came out?” PeopleCountryStatesFactsProblemUsedFoundMillionsImagineUnionsRussiaFormerBordersRepublicSovietSoviet UnionSoviet RussiaFederation Author:Vladimir Putin
“I wish I had [letters], can you imagine their value, and I don't mean merely financially. I am sure they were accidentally destroyed or that Schaub found them and destroyed them. [Adolf] Hitler didn't want those letters read by anyone but Eva [Braun] and had made that point clear in the course of the years.” WantYearsMeanMadeValuesCoursesFoundWishClearImagineLettersDestroyed Author:Gretl Braun