I had a lot of alone time with no brothers or sisters running around, or anything. I would just sit and imagine things, all the time.

Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense.

A thought experiment courtesy of the Stoics. If you are tired of everything you possess, imagine that you have lost all these things.

I can't imagine the scientists wanting me to walk into the lab and start fiddling around with some big bowl of electrons they had out.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

And history`s fingers never relax their grip, never leave us unmolested, can touch us even when we would never imagine their presence.

Fortunate persons hardly ever amend their ways: they always imagine that they are in the right when fortune upholds their bad conduct.

When one works and imagines and dreams of nothing else than the search for answers that God has posed, it is difficult to be so still.

With a bucket of Lego, you can tell any story. You can build an airplane or a dragon or a pirate ship - it's whatever you can imagine.

Know what your sin is and confess it; but do not imagine that you have approved yourself a penitent by confessing sin in the abstract.

Thank God for FaceTime. I can't imagine wrestlers from the '80s being on the road all the time without cell phones and stuff like that.

Much of what we see in the universe ... starts out as imaginary. Often you must imagine something before you can come to terms with it.

In the state of society in which we now find ourselves, it is difficult to imagine a nation which lived solely on bread and vegetables.

As far as all of our identities are dependent on how other people imagine us we are all making ourselves and each other up all the time

Oprah is more than an institution. Oprah is a very special star in the firmament. I can't imagine a greater success than she's enjoyed.

A celebrity is well known for being well known. I'm relatively well known - but for what I've written and said, or so I fondly imagine.

When I got near teen age, I was so happy with my friends and the African-American culture that I couldn't imagine not being part of it.

I have 3 dogs myself - I actually have a kennel license in order to do so. I love them so much I couldn't imagine my life without them.

I imagine a world in which all humans are born with an intact capacity to love, and I am willing to devote my life to making it happen.

A highly intelligent man should take a primitive woman. Imagine if on top of everything else, I had a woman who interfered with my work.

Making films is much more difficult than people imagine, and so the experience of actually directing them is not one I've ever relished.

The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.

We imagine that whatever is unpleasant is our duty! Is that anything like the spirit of our Lord, "I *delight* to do Thy will, O My God.

If you're laboring up a steep hill, imagine that a towrope is attached to the center of your chest, pulling you steadily toward the top.

Because nothing is as good as you can imagine it. No one is as beautiful as she is in your head. Nothing is as exciting as your fantasy.

Imagine how great you will feel when you know your partner loves all of you, all the time. The good, the bad, and everything in between!

He who has felt his own ruin will not imagine the case of any to be hopeless; nor will he think them too fallen to be worthy his regard.

I've had every haircut you could possibly imagine: mullet, tail, dreadlocks, afro, crew cut. It's always been an expression of who I am.

You have to be careful what you imagine, because the act of imagining is the act of encouraging yourself to be a certain kind of person.

Opportunity is ever worth expecting; let your hood be ever hanging ready. The fish will be in the pool where you least imagine it to be.

Instead of a president who boycotts Prime Minister Netanyahu, imagine a president who stands unapologetically with the nation of Israel.

I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman.

The fear of approaching death, which in youth we imagine must cause inquietude to the aged, is very seldom the source of much uneasiness.

Let no American imagine that Zionism is inconsistent with patriotism. Multiple loyalties are objectionable only if they are inconsistent.

Actually, I can't imagine anything more tedious than a perfect person, especially if it was someone who also demanded perfection from me.

If you dream you've got to dream that it's going to happen. Remember that. If you dream you have to imagine that it will actually happen.

we had made love without love, half-dressed most of the time and always in the dark so we could imagine ourselves as better than we were.

Every single day, we could be in a motorcar accident, so, we have to carry on with our lives, and not imagine terror around every corner.

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.

Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine.

Persons who discover a flatterer, do not always disapprove him, because he imagines them considerable enough to deserve his applications.

Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.

I realise people exist who don't read. But it's like I knew there were people who didn't breathe or eat: I can't imagine a life like that.

Those who have never worked nude outdoors just can't imagine how much better a breeze feels on their skin than an item of sweaty clothing.

I would not be happy unless I had some regular work to do every day and I imagine that I will always feel that way no matter how old I am.

I wanted a shark that's big enough to eat you, and in a large enough amount of liquid so that you could imagine you were in there with it.

Football is not always as glamourous as some might imagine, as the story of the first time I signed Marouane Fellaini perhaps illustrates.

You talk about auteur de cinema having things in their heads and putting them all across, can you imagine Shakespeare writing screenplays?

Floyd could imagine a dozen things that could go wrong; it was little consolation that it was always the thirteenth that actually happened.

It is difficult for me to imagine what "personal liberty" the unemployed can have who go hungry and cannot find utilization of their labor.

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