More generally, people who lived in a period when maternal, infant and childhood mortality were still high would have been tougher than… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Most people didn't pursue their passions simply because of the promise of a paycheck. They pursued them because they couldn't imagine doing… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
High achievers, we imagine, were wired for greatness from birth. But then you have to wonder why, over time, natural talent seems… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
One can imagine a kind of hormonal arms race or genetic arms race, whether it's to do with height or IQ, conceivably,… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
I was 35. I was the oldest female VJ at Viacom ever. I left them, which at least preserved my dignity, because… — Jancee Dunn Copy Share Image
I feel like the original 'Mad Max' created such a vivid world, that to go back and re-imagine it and kind of… — Riley Keough Copy Share Image
My mother says that pain is hidden in everyone you see. She says try to imagine it like big bunches of flowers… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
It's not that hard to imagine the natural world recovering it's health in our absence: it's more difficult, and more necessary, to… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Don't forget that we lawyers, we're a higher breed of intellect, and so it's our privilege to lie. It's as clear as… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Find a printer paper and imagine a full-grown bird shaped something like a football with legs standing on it. Imagine 33,000 of… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
For what I saw at the abbey then (and will now recount) caused me to think that often inquisitors create heretics. And… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Imagine that the world had created a new 'dream product' to feed and immunize everyone born on earth. Imagine also that it… — Frank Oski Copy Share Image
I'm an ensemble guy, I guess - that comes from the theater. If I ever won some kind of award someday, I… — Garret Dillahunt Copy Share Image
Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms. When we read about the… — Gary Wolf Copy Share Image
People imagine that there are rituals, like lighting candles or sacrificing chickens. They really just want to know what the magic formula… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
Utilities get out of the way. Can you imagine if you flipped a light switch and had to watch an ad before… — Jan Koum Copy Share Image
I've always thought that art is a lie, an interesting lie. And I'll sort of listen to the "lie" and try to… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
“I imagine hurtling into the air in a car with wings, the energy of the engine and the rush of wind through… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be,… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I imagine a future aircraft, which will take off vertically, fly as usual, and land vertically. This flying machine should have no… — Henri Coanda Copy Share Image
Those who have never worked nude outdoors just can't imagine how much better a breeze feels on their skin than an item… — Ben Miller Copy Share Image
Oh, you'll not be any poorer if you smile along your way. And your lot will not be harder for the kindly… — Edgar Guest Copy Share Image
Imagination, on the contrary, which is ever wandering beyond the bounds of truth, joined to self-love and that self-confidence we are so… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share Image
Is it too ingenuous to imagine that anything can be left to say about a garden? Garden literature, descriptive, reminiscent, and technical,… — Harrison Gray Otis Dwight Copy Share Image
If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. I… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Imagine consultants coming into an organization to help people look at their most routine daily action … as extensions of the creative process. ” — Shaun McNiff Copy Share Image
Imagine sitting down to an eight ounce steak, and then, imagine the room filled wit 45 to 50 people with empty bowls...For… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering. I think madness can be an escape. If things… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Virtual Reality is really a new communication platform. By feeling truly present, you can share unbounded spaces and experiences with the people… — Mark Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
All our efforts to attain immortality-by statesmanship, by conquest, by science or the arts-are equally vain in the long run, because the… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
It's unbearable when someone changes around you. Just imagine that your life partner changes, then it is difficult to cope with. Or… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
I believe in a lot of astrology. I believe in aliens... I look up into the stars and I imagine: 'How self-important… — Katy Perry Copy Share Image
“Imagine! In each of us lies the potential to do superhuman things. Feats of great physical daring, art, science. The ability to… — Peter Lerangis Copy Share Image
If I had a reed made of lightening I could blow the sax all night... I don't know where one would acquire… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
Infinity imagines curiosity from the wild abyss - Only the child makes a swing-set view of the worlds upside down. Unwatched truth… — Akiane Kramarik Copy Share Image
In case you're wondering, the underside of a sheep doesn't smell that great. Imagine a winter sweater that's been dragged through the… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I want my books to explore motives which make people think, 'Wow! Imagine the psychological state you'd have to be in for… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
Imagine all human beings swept off the face of the earth, excepting one man. Imagine this man in some vast city, New… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
You're not as smart as you think you are, but you've got more potential than you could possibly imagine. The secret from… — Michael Hyatt Copy Share Image
