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“It's such a pain in the ass to write a book, I can't imagine writing one if I'm not interested in the subject.”

Ifs Writing I Can Book Pain Imagine Subjects Ass Not Interested

“I am never much interested in the effects of what I write....I seldom read with any attention the reviews of my...books. Two times out of three I know something about the reviewer, and in very few cases have I any respect for his judgments. Thus his praise, if he praises me, leaves me unmoved. I can't recall any review that has even influenced me in the slightest. I live in sort of a vacuum, and I suspect that most other writers do, too. It is hard to imagine one of the great ones paying any serious attention to contemporary opinion.”

Ifs Knows Writing I Can Two Book Hard Three Attention Opinion Cases Imagine Effects Serious Judgment Praise Contemporary Suspects Reviews Recalls Leaving Me Vacuums Great Ones Reviewers

Author:H. L. Mencken

“If it is hard to imagine that 20% of losses on the stock market, you should never participate”

Ifs Should Hard Loss Imagine Imagine That

Author:John C. Bogle

“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.”

“I believe nothing happens by accident. My fame has happened for a reason. My fans are my kindred spirits in revolution. If anyone chooses to ignore the message or the messenger, they do so at their own risk. Believe it or not, there are many more people out there that understand what I am trying to do than society wants to admit. The way I live my life represents a much bigger part of America than anyone would care to imagine”

“There is no reason why a joke should not be appreciated more than once. Imagine how little good music there would be if, for example, a conductor refused to play Beethoven's Fifth Symphony on the ground that his audience might have heard it before.”

Ifs Should Littles Reason Play Might Would Be Audience Imagine Heard Example Jokes Reason Why No Reason Appreciated Fifth Symphony Conductor

Author:A. P. Herbert

“My single biggest financial concern is the loss of the dollar as the reserve currency. I can't imagine anything more disastrous to our country. . .you're already seeing things in the markets that are suggesting that confidence in the dollar is waning. . .I think you could see a 25% reduction in the standard of living in this country if the U.S. dollar was no longer the world's reserve currency. That's how valuable it is.”

Ifs Thinking World I Can Country Loss Imagine Seeing Standards Concern Dollars Financial Valuable Our Country Currency Reserves Reduction Suggesting Standards Of Living

Author:Sam Zell

“A lot of people do what their families do. Imagine if everyone in the family is a doctor and they decide to become an actor. Then people have to make those choices for themselves and their art and what they believe in.”

People Ifs Believe Art Choices Actors Imagine Doctors

Author:Zoe Kravitz

“Before I read the script [The Following], I saw the schedule, and imagine how confusing that was. I thought it was intriguing. I'm an actress. Even if it's, by proxy, all about me, I'm all for it. It was all about me, but I didn't have to show up, so it was great.”

Ifs Shows Saws Imagine Scripts Following Actresses Schedules Confusing Intriguing Proxy

Author:Natalie Zea

“If I grew up in a different background, I could see myself getting a gun and shooting an abortionist. That's my job, to imagine what could happen, what can make people go in different directions.”

People Ifs Different Happens Jobs Imagine Grew Grew Up Gun Backgrounds Shooting Different Directions Different Backgrounds

Author:Todd Solondz

“Imagine if every church became a place where everyone is safe, but no one is comfortable. Image if every church became a place where we told one another the truth. We might just create sanctuary.”

Ifs Might Church Imagine Safe Comfortable Sanctuary

Author:Rachel Held Evans

“If I have to hold a note for a long time, I imagine it as moving and spinning, for the note has to have life. In a way, a singer actually refreshes a note with every beat that it's held.”

Ifs Way Long Moving Imagine Long Time Beats Notes Singers Spinning

Book:The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer

Source: The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer

“I believe ambition is not a dirty word. It's just believing in yourself and your abilities. Imagine this: What would happen if we were all brave enough to be a little bit more ambitious? I think the world would change.”

Ifs Thinking World Believe Littles Enough Happens I Believe Bits Ability Imagine Ambition Little Bit Brave Dirty Believe In Yourself Ambitious Dirty Words

Author:Reese Witherspoon

“There is profound responsibility in being Love... more than the mind could imagine or hold up under. If most human beings truly realized the impact that they have on the whole, they'd be crushed by the realization of it.”

Ifs Mind Humans Whole Human Beings Responsibility Imagine Impact Profound Realization Crushed

Author:Adyashanti

“We find it hard to love imperfect things so we imagine God is just as small as we are. If we expect or need things to be perfect or to our liking ( including ourselves) we have created a certain path for a very unhappy life.”

Ifs Needs Hard Certain Perfect Path Imagine Including Unhappy Happy Life Imperfect Unhappy Life Imperfect Things

Author:Richard Rohr

“When we respect ourselves, our lives change because the conflict in our mind ends. Then the relationship with our beloved also changes, and there will be peace in our family, in our friendships, in our community, and so on. Just imagine what kind of planet this would be if everybody respected themselves and everybody else?”

Ifs Mind Kind Ends Would Be Community Our Lives Imagine Planets Conflict Beloved Our Family Life Changing Our Community

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“If you look at the end of the movie [Monsegnor Lahzar], I give a lot of space to what the spectator can also imagine of what's going to be Bachir's life afterwards. So, there's the restraint part, and there's the fact that the story is happening in the school which allowed me to tackle all these subjects without making it too didactic, because in the school everything happens.”

Ifs Giving Looks Ends Facts Stories Happens School Space Imagine Subjects Happenings Things Happen Restraint Spectators Didactic

Author:Philippe Falardeau

“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.”

Ifs Imagine Violence Effects Building Built Stones Paris Memorial Newton Register Cubes Indictment

Author:Peter Greenaway

“My dear friend, do not imagine that I am vain enough to ascribe our success [Revolution] to any superiority . . . If it had not been for the justice of our cause, and the consequent interposition of Providence, in which we had faith, we must have been ruined. If I had ever before been an atheist, I should now have been convinced of the being and government of a Deity!”

Ifs Should Has Beens Enough Government Causes Justice Imagine Revolution Dear Atheist Convinced Vain Imagine That Providence Superiority Ruined Deities Dear Friend

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“I've got a great relationship with my dad, but I can imagine how annoying it would be if I had to move back into his house.”

Ifs I Can Would Be Moving House Imagine Dad My Dad Annoying Great Relationship

Author:Sally Phillips

“We will not know our own injustice if we cannot imagine justice. We will not be free if we do not imagine freedom. We cannot demand that anyone try to attain justice and freedom who has not had a chance to imagine them as attainable.”

Ifs Knows Trying Justice Chance Imagine Demand Injustice

Book:The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination

Source: The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination

“Human beings only use ten percent of their brains. Ten percent! Can you imagine how much we could accomplish if we used the other sixty percent?”

Ifs Humans Use Used Human Beings Brain Imagine Ten Percent Accomplish Sixty

Author:Ellen DeGeneres

“If you remove a treehouse from a tree, than it's just a shitty house. Sometimes when i'm in a shitty house, I like to imagine that it's in a tree, than it's like Woah, this house is amazing.”

Ifs Sometimes House Imagine Tree Remove Imagine That Treehouses

Author:Demetri Martin

“You can never capture a person in picture, never. You might get an interesting expression or gesture. I almost never research a picture subject ahead of time. I think Karsh is full of baloney. Can you imagine spending a whole week out in La Jolla with Jonas Salk soaking up his ambiance, then wind up making him look as if he's in the studio in Ottawa with his thumb under his chin?”

Ifs Thinking Looks Persons Whole Might Interesting Imagine Week Subjects Expression Wind Research Studios Spending Capture Gestures Thumbs Chins Ahead Of Time Soaking Baloney Ottawa Ambiance

Author:Duane Michals

“Stoichkov is a great person and an exceptional player... Only if we had him at Napoli... can you imagine the Stoichkov-Maradona attacking duo?”

Ifs Persons Imagine Player Exceptional Attacking Argentina Great Person Maradona Duos

Author:Diego Maradona

“If you spend five minutes with me or watch me try to balance my checkbook, you can only imagine the disaster I would make of anyone's legal issues.”

Ifs Trying Watches Issues Five Imagine Minutes Balance Disaster Five Minutes Watch Me

Author:Greg Giraldo

“There were moments - I would be daydreaming - I would imagine scenes, even if there wasn't a camera around. In my head, I was acting.”

Ifs Moments Would Be Acting Imagine Scene Cameras France Daydreaming

Author:Eric Cantona

“Can you imagine getting a gun for a secret Santa? That is especially not a good idea if you work in a post office.”

Ifs Ideas Secret Imagine Office Gun Posts Good Ideas Santa Post Office

Author:Chelsea Handler

“Every time I read anything, whether it be a book, a script, or anything, I automatically imagine myself as the boy in the plot. I don't know why. Seriously, anything. If I'm reading a magazine article or whatever, I picture myself as the kid people are talking about. It's really weird. I don't know why I do that.”

People Ifs Knows Book Kids Reading Talking Boys Imagine Scripts Magazines Plot Articles Really Weird

Author:Josh Hutcherson

“My favorite novel in the world is Frankenstein. I'm going to misquote it horribly, but the monster says, "I have such love in me, more than you can imagine. But, if I cannot provoke it, I will provoke fear."”

Ifs World Novel Imagine My Favorite Monsters Provoking

Author:Guillermo del Toro

“I'm certain prison is pretty rough as it is but imagine if you were a murderer and a foodie!”

Ifs Certain Imagine Prison Rough Murderer

Author:Greg Behrendt

“That's what they want: two women. Fellas, I think that's a bit lofty. Because, come on, think about it - if you can't satisfy that one woman, why do you want to piss off another one? Why have two angry women in the bed with you at the same time? And think about it - you know how much you hate to talk after sex, imagine having two women just nagging you to death.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Want Two Hate Sex Bits Know How Imagine Bed Angry Lofty One Woman Nagging Fellas Angry Women

Author:Wanda Sykes

“Am I the only person who hopes that David Beckham has sex with Brad Pitt? I don't know who's in charge of casting in Hollywood, but make it happen before one of them is out of their prime. Can you imagine those two men together making love? If there's a man in here that's junk doesn't wiggle just a little bit at the thought of those two men together - this has nothing to do with your homophobic sexual preference. At that level it's art, you monkey. You should be honored that you share the same restroom with those Greek gods.”

“What good is this body? Let it go in helping others. Did not the Master preach until the very end? And shall I not do the same? I do not care a straw if the body goes. You cannot imagine how happy I am when I find earnest seekers after truth to talk to. In the work of waking up Atman in my fellow men I shall gladly die again and again!”

Ifs Men Ends Helping Body Care Dies Imagine Masters Wake Up Fellows Helping Others Waking Again And Again Earnest Fellow Man Seekers Let It Go Straws Atman

Author:Swami Vivekananda

“Imagine the wars we would've avoided if prior generations had a website where they could debate tragedy and politics in terse sentences?”

Ifs War Politics Imagine Generations Tragedy Sentences Debate Avoided Website

Author:Eugene Mirman

“Can you imagine if you had a pair of shoes that you could only walk in? That could be kind of limiting under certain circumstances. 'Everybody get outta here! There's a swarm of bees coming!' What? Oh great, I got my walking shoes on today. I guess I better stroll the hell out of here at a moderate pace.”

Ifs Kind Today Certain Walks Hell Imagine Circumstances Walking Shoes Pairs Be Kind Pace Bees Moderates Pair Of Shoes Swarms Walking Shoes

Author:Arj Barker

“Imagine what Masaccio or Leonardo would have done if they had an instrument with which they could point, push a button, and get an image.”

Ifs Done Imagine Instruments Buttons Leonardo

Author:Thomas Roma

“Imagine if your business burned down and you had to walk across the street and start again, what would you do differently?”

Ifs Walks Imagine Streets Down And Burned Business Success New Beginnings Starting Over Fresh Start

Author:Brian Tracy

“I am the representative of all the sick people and what they are doing to me is only the worst case right now, but there will be others. I am living on borrowed time anyway. I owe this part of my life to luck and modern medical science. But I can't imagine what the rest of it will be like if they won't let me use medical marijuana.”

People Ifs I Can Use Cases Imagine Modern Worst Right Now Sick Let Me Luck Medical Marijuana Representatives Borrowed Living On Using Me Medical Marijuana Medical Science Borrowed Time

Author:Peter McWilliams

“Imagine if for years your habit is to use the phone when you're having a massage on the bed, even one minute before going out to train? For 25 days I accepted this, because my first priority was to work on the field. However, I've said that from now if someone comes inside with a mobile phone, even in their bag, I'll throw it in the North Sea. They're banned.”

Ifs Years Firsts Said Use Imagine Sea Minutes Fields Habit Bed Train Phones Accepted Priorities Bags Going Out Mobile Banned Massage One Minute Mobile Phones North Sea

Author:Paolo Di Canio

“I love Chicago. It was an awesome place to grow up. It's a big city but it doesn't feel like one. I can't imagine that if I had kids I would raise them anywhere else besides Chicago.”

Ifs Feels I Can Bigs Kids Grows Cities Growing Up Imagine Raises Chicago Imagine That Big Cities

Author:Chris McCaughan

“To try and imagine that I'm another person is always going to be hard - whether I'm writing about a truck driver or someone who is gay, who's trans, who is of a different ethnicity or creed. But it would be boring if I always had to write about myself and my limited viewpoint.”

Ifs Writing Trying Persons Different Hard Would Be Imagine Gay Boring Drivers Imagine That Creeds Truck Trans Viewpoints Ethnicity Truck Driver

Author:Brian K. Vaughan

“If you have a thought of hate, imagine a source that is responsible for creating everything in the Universe that's operating on hate. It wouldn't create things that it hated.”

Ifs Hate Universe Imagine Source Creating Responsible Hated

Author:Wayne Dyer

“To understand that, we have to begin to imagine what a universe would be like if there wasn't anything in it called Mind. If that was the case, according to quantum physics now, then every possibility would also come into existence as every other possibility.”

Ifs Mind Would Be Universe Existence Cases Imagine Possibility Physics Quantum Quantum Physics

Author:Fred Alan Wolf

“I don't know necessarily that I would produce under my own company right now. Producing is not something that I'm thinking about. Directing is something that I will be doing very shortly, trying to figure out what to get my hands on. And I can't imagine writing a script and wanting to direct it and not having a producing credit, because I would want to have a big chunk of power on that end, if I wrote something.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Want Writing Trying I Can Ends Hands Bigs My Own Company Imagine Figures Produce Right Now Direct Scripts Credit Chunks

Author:Scarlett Johansson

“Imagine what would happen if the government were to take the wealth of 200,000 of India's richest people and redistribute it amongst 2 million of India's poorest? We would hear a lot about socialist appropriation and the death of democracy. Why should taking from the rich be called appropriation and taking from the poor be called development?”

People Ifs Should Government Happens Wealth Poor Millions Democracy Rich Imagine Development India Socialist Poorest Appropriation

Author:Arundhati Roy

“It sounds superficially fair. But it presupposes that that there is something in Christian theology to be ignorant about. The entire thrust of my position is that Christian theology is a non-subject. It is empty. Vacuous. Devoid of coherence or content. I imagine that McGrath would join me in expressing disbelief in fairies, astrology and Thor's hammer. How would he respond if a fairyologist, astrologer or Viking accused him of ignorance of their respective subjects?”

“I really had to imagine the kind of person that I would have been if I had never left my hometown... I don't think I would have been a very pleasant person.”

Ifs Thinking Kind Persons Has Beens Left Imagine Pleasant Hometown

Author:Patton Oswalt

“If you have a relative who's lost interest in everything and doesn't get out of bed, who doesn't care for things they used to, can't imagine anything that would give them any pleasure, don't fool around with it; get therapy, get help, get medication if that's right for you, or talk therapy, or something.”

Ifs Giving Helping Care Used Lost Interest Pleasure Imagine Fool Bed Therapy Relative Medication

Author:Dick Cavett

“Do not imagine that if you meet a really humble man he will be what most people call "humble" nowadays: he will not be a sort of greasy, smarmy person, who is always telling you that, of course, he is a nobody. Probably all you will think about him is that he seemed a cheerful, intelligent chap who took a real interest in what you said to him.”

People Ifs Thinking Men Persons Said Real Courses Interest Imagine Intelligent Humble Imagine That Cheerful Chaps Christian Humility Humble Man Humble Person

Book:The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics

Source: The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics

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