“Fish seem to be rather conservative around this bay, one seldom catches enough to form the fundamental basis for a lie. Dante left out one of the torments of Hades I could imagine a doomed mortal made to untangle wet fish lines forever. Everybody lost patience at the stupidity of the fish in not coming forward promptly to be murdered.” MadeEnoughSeemsFormLyingLostLeftLinesForeverImagineBasesFundamentalsFishesConservativeStupidityMortalsFishingWetDoomedTormentLeft OutHades Author:Thomas A. Edison
“The only reason you even start a band is so you can hang out with your friends all the time, but somewhere along the line, it just ends up becoming a job. You were doing it because you were like, 'I never want to have to get a job,' then all of a sudden it becomes the biggest job you could ever imagine.” WantEndsReasonJobsLinesImagineBecomingBandHanging Out Author:Pete Wentz
“Imagine a world in which we saw beyond the lines that divide us, and celebrated our differences, instead of hiding from them. Imagine a world in which we finally recognized that, fundamentally, we are all the same. And imagine if we allowed that new understanding to build relations between people and between nations.” PeopleIfsWorldNationsUnderstandingDifferencesLinesSawsImagineRelationHidingDivides Author:Wesley Clark
“How well a posse policy will fare in a world with 3 billion people below the poverty line and nuclear warheads scattered around a dozen or more regions like melons in a field, is not easy to imagine.” PeopleWorldWellsEasyLinesPovertyImaginePolicyFieldsNuclearBillionsRegionsDozenNuclear WarPosseMelons Author:Herbert Schiller
“As an analogy one can imagine an intelligent amoeba with a good memory. As time progresses the amoeba is constantly splitting, each time the resulting amoebas having the same memories as the parent. Our amoeba hence does not have a life line, but a life tree.” DoeParentLinesMemoriesImagineProgressTreeIntelligentAnalogiesGood MemoriesSplittingAmoebaLife Line Author:Hugh Everett III
“Nearly all creators of Utopia have resembled the man who has toothache, and therefore thinks happiness consists in not having toothache. They wanted to produce a perfect society by an endless continuation of something that had only been valuable because it was temporary. The wider course would be to say that there are certain lines along which humanity must move, the grand strategy is mapped out, but detailed prophecy is not our business. Whoever tries to imagine perfection simply reveals his own emptiness.” ThinkingMenTryingWould BeWantedMovingCertainHumanityCoursesLinesPerfectImagineProduceHe ManPerfectionStrategyCreatorValuableEndlessEmptinessTemporaryProphecyUtopiaContinuationToothachePerfect Society Book:The Complete Works of George Orwell: I have tried to tell the truth, 1943-1944 Source: The Complete Works of George Orwell: I have tried to tell the truth, 1943-1944
“As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.” WorldHumansHelpingFeelingsPoetryLanguageLinesSituationImaginePerspectiveHonorNewsToolsDirectMetaphorDetailsMeaningfulGenuinePoetry IsImageryHeadlines Author:Naomi Shihab Nye
“Remove all the traffic lights, yellow lines, one-way systems and road markings, and let blissful anarchy prevail. I imagine it would produce a kind of harmony.” WayKindLightLinesImagineProduceHarmonyOne WayRemoveAnarchyYellowTrafficTraffic Light Author:Sadie Jones
“No one really understands the grief or joy of another. We always imagine that we are approaching some other, but our lines of travel are actually parallel.” JoyUnderstandingLinesGriefImagineImagine ThatParallels Author:Franz Schubert
“Imagine if I'd said, 'I have to be the best actress - I want that and nothing else.' I never would have directed. I never would have produced. I never would have done a beauty line. I would have just worried about getting a job or been frustrated that I wasn't getting the job that I wanted. I was ready to be a businesswoman.” IfsWantSaidDoneWantedJobsLinesImagineReadyActressesWorriedBeing The BestFrustrated Author:Salma Hayek
“I had to let myself imagine a calendar with no lines; when every single day is being predetermined six months in advance, there's no more fluidity to time.” LinesImagineMonthsSixSix MonthsCalendarsPredeterminedFluidity Author:Feist