Quotes with imagine

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  • Henry Louis Mencken The truth is that the average schoolmaster, on all the lower levels, is and always must be essentially and next door to an idiot, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation?
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Baltasar Kormakur The winters are too long, and there's only one airline, so it's difficult to escape when you feel frustrated or claustrophobic. The audience for our films isn't very large, so it's difficult to support an industry. But, Iceland is beautiful. Sometimes it's hard to imagine living anywhere else.
    Baltasar Kormakur
    Icelandic actor, theater and film director (1966 - )
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  • Gordon Sumner The world is ruled by butterflies adding to their weapon piles. Imagine what your taxes buy. We hardly ever try.
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  • Carson McCullers The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes humility, love and great courage. How can you create a character without live and the struggle that goes with love?
    Carson McCullers
    American novelist and poet (1917 - 1967)
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  • Logan Pearsall Smith There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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  • C. V. Boys There is more in a common bubble than those who have only played with them generally imagine.
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  • Binyavanga Wainaina There's no point for me in being a writer and having all these blocked places where I feel I can't think freely and imagine freely. There just really is no point.
    Binyavanga Wainaina
    Kenyan author and journalist (1971 - 2019)
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  • Carol Ann Duffy This is the word tightrope. Now imagine
    a man, inching across it in the space
    between our thoughts. He holds our breath. There is no word net. You want him to fall, don't you?
    I guessed as much; he teeters but succeeds.
    The word applause is written all over him.
    Standing Female Nude (1985)
    Carol Ann Duffy
    British poet and playwright (1955 - )
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  • Desiderius Erasmus This type of man who is devoted to the study of wisdom is always most unlucky in everything, and particularly when it comes to procreating children; I imagine this is because Nature wants to ensure that the evils of wisdom shall not spread further throughout mankind.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Leslie Fiedler To be an American (unlike being English or French or whatever) is precisely to imagine a destiny rather than to inherit one; since we have always been, insofar as we are Americans at all, inhabitants of myth rather than history.
    Leslie Fiedler
    American literary critic (1917 - 2003)
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  • Bill Hader To be totally honest? I don't know if I'll keep doing more impressions. People told me I had a facility for it, and I was like, 'Okay, I'm the impression guy.' So you imagine the cast at 'SNL' is an A-Team, and you've got the explosives guy, and I'm the impression guy.
    Bill Hader
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director (1978 - )
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  • Anatole France To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Albert Einstein To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Ghose Aurobindo To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
    Ghose Aurobindo
    Indian philosopher, yogi, guru, poet, and nationalist (1872 - 1950)
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  • Edmond de Goncourt Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.
    Edmond de Goncourt
    French writer and critic (1822 - 1896)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Robert Byrne Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell.
    Robert Byrne
    American author (1928 - 2013)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Lionel Trilling We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian.
    Lionel Trilling
    American Critic (1905 - 1975)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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