“You could make an analogy to a security guard who, three weeks prior, was mowing lawns for a living. The second he puts a uniform on and that badge, he's a man. I imagine the majority of us have felt the wrath of the over-zealous security guard guy. Is there something lying dormant in the man, that's waiting to be pumped up with that kind of power? I don't know. Does it reveal him? I don't know. Does it change him? I don't know.” KnowsMenKindDoeLyingGuyThreeFeltWaitingImagineWeekSecurityHe ManMajorityUniformsWrathLawnsAnalogiesBadgesDormantZealousSecurity GuardsMowingMowing The Lawn Author:Johnny Depp
“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.” IfsThinkingKindPersonsHas BeensLeftImaginePleasantHometown Author:Patton Oswalt
“I have a house that I bought 55 years ago. It's warm in the winter; it's cool in the summer. It has everything I wanted, plus it has all kinds of good memories. Like my kids, I have good thoughts about that. I can't imagine living any better.” YearsKindI CanKidsWantedHouseMemoriesImagineSummerYears AgoWinterWarmAll KindsPlusGood ThoughtsGood Memories Author:Warren Buffett
“There was no Twitter when I was in high school, so I can't even imagine the pressures or the expectations of pursuing likes or living life in that kind of mentality.” KindI CanSchoolImagineExpectationsHigh SchoolPressureLikesLive LifeMentality Author:Tyler Oakley
“Creativity is essential to any kind of joyful living. Sometimes I act, sometimes I draw, I paint, I write poems. I can't imagine living without it.” WritingKindI CanSometimesCreativityImagineEssentialsDrawsPaintJoyful Author:Zephyr Teachout
“The second guy I met on the Internet was Tom, who I dated for around 6 months, which is by far the longest relationship I've ever had as an adult. We long distance dated mostly, chatting everyday for a long time on FB chat and Skype. It's hard to imagine a more genuinely caring and kind individual. I owe a lot to him.” KindLongHardGuyIndividualImagineMonthsInternetMetsLong TimeAdultsDistanceEverydayCaringTomsLong DistanceChattingSkype Author:Marie Calloway
“Obviously loss of family is huge and critical, but I think really it's more about losing a sense of family. The horror of that kind of incompleteness. Writing this book, I tried not to think about my father, which does no one any good fictionally. I did try to imagine not just the horror of that moment, but the horror of having witnessed it, and the lifelong void. And I think that's what's so frightening.” ThinkingWritingTryingKindDoeBookMomentsFatherLossImagineHugeHorrorLosingCriticalThat MomentVoidFrighteningLifelongIncompleteness Author:Chang-Rae Lee
“I think Senator Rubio is a very talented young man. But you can well imagine that I am kind of partial to governors.” ThinkingMenWellsKindYoungImagineYoung ManImagine ThatGovernorsSenators Author:Tom Ridge
“One can imagine a kind of hormonal arms race or genetic arms race, whether it's to do with height or IQ, conceivably, in the future. So it's limitless, and that's another of the features that sets it apart from medical intervention.” KindRaceImagineArmsMedicalFeaturesHeightInterventionLimitlessArms Race Author:Michael Sandel
“Helen Vendler calls this kind of interrogation of a work "roads not taken," suggesting that it's useful, when writing critically, to consider what differences it makes to the work or the encounter with the work if changes are made. It's one way of better understanding your experience, comparing it to other possible experiences you can imagine having.” IfsWayWritingKindMadeUnderstandingDifferencesTakenImagineMade ItOne WayCompareEncountersSuggestingHelenInterrogationRoad Not Taken Author:Laura Mullen
“it's important as a composer to sit in silence and imagine these complex musical worlds in your head, but it's also a wonderful experience to touch your music and to hear it and hear it in the room with you and to say, you can't have an entire orchestra there, but you'd kind of like to have the orchestra there.” WorldKindImportantRoomsSilenceImagineWonderfulComplexesMusicalComposerOrchestraWonderful Experience Author:Tod Machover
“I walk with Federico Garcia Lorca around the Upper West Side in Manhattan because that was a neighborhood he lived in and I imagine walking around Paris with Cesar Vallejo, a great Peruvian poet who lived in Paris. And I kind of create the walk as a kind of drama of my apprenticeship.” KindSidesWalksImaginePoetWalkingDramaWestParisNeighborhoodManhattanApprenticeshipWest SideLorcaPeruvians Author:Edward Hirsch
“I think this is the kind of thing where we're rapidly moving toward an age where most of the populace will be almost unable to imagine life without an Internet component interlocked with it.” ThinkingKindAgeMovingImagineInternetComponents Author:Chuck Klosterman
“Imagine Americans who go to Paris. Why would you want to go where someone's going to disparage you? Why would you go anywhere where they treat you bad? Well, that's how it is for us to go to Mexico. You have to be on your guard, because I think the Mexicans are harder on the Mexicans, the Mexican-Americans. They don't see us as Mexican. I think part of it's a class issue and a color issue. We're more connected to their servants, so what are we doing staying at a nice hotel? There's a kind of shame.” ThinkingWantWellsKindClassIssuesNiceImagineColorTreatsHarderShameConnectedServantParisHotelStayingMexicoMexicanMexican American Author:Sandra Cisneros