Imagined Quotes

921 Imagined quotes by 723 unique authors

There can hardly, I believe, be imagined a more desirable pleasure than that of praise unmixed with any possibility of flattery. — Richard Steele
Human beings are like detectives. They love a mystery. They love going where the mystery pulls them. What we don't like is a mystery that's… — David
At the core of everything I do, is not my ambition but my desire to make music. Somewhere along the line I stumbled onto something… — El-P
It's a weird thing when you make records. You try to hear it before you make it, so you walk into the studio with this… — Dave Grohl
Most fears are not even based on our current reality. They are the product of imagined fears conjured up in our minds - the product… — Lauren Mackler
If you try too carefully to plan your life, the danger is that you will succeed-succeed in narrowing your options, closing off avenues of adventure… — Harlan Cleveland
I always imagined how cool it would be to be the face of a Gap campaign! — Theophilus London
It is the wicked deception of love that it begins by making us dwell not upon a woman in the outside world but upon a… — Marcel Proust
And a more foolish notion can scarcely be imagined, it being obvious that the reader is only informed of what the writer wishes him to… — Iain Pears
For Fleur de Chine, I imagined the romantic and mysterious women from Asia's cinematic past-from the '30s femme fatale in a cheongsam and dark lipstick,… — Tom Ford
Where there is happiness, there is found pleasure in nonsense. The transformation of experience into its opposite, of the suitable into the unsuitable, the obligatory… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Our courage is greater to dare a visible than an imagined danger. A visible danger rouses our energies to meet or avert it; a fancied… — Christian Nestell Bovee
Man must have some recognized stake in society and affairs to knit him lovingly to his kind, or he is wont to revenge himself for… — Amos Bronson Alcott
Adultery is a meanness and a stealing, a taking away from someone what should be theirs, a great selfishness, and surrounded and guarded by lies… — Rose Macaulay
Nothing too long imagined can be perfect in a wordly way. — Anais Nin
In the case of drama (stage, movies, television ), there appear to be people in almost every audience who never quite fully realize that a… — S I Hayakawa
It seems hard for the American people to believe that anything could be more exciting than the times themselves. What we read daily and view… — Saul Bellow
The grandeur of the dooms We have imagined for the mighty dead. — John Keats
Art as a fantasy has been one of my earliest experiences. I suppose a lot of my childhood was a fantasy that involved getting away… — Jasper Johns
I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined. — Carlos Ghosn
All we really have when we pretend to write about the future is the moment in which we are writing. That's why every imagined future… — William Gibson
The painting is not on a surface, but on a plane which is imagined. It moves in a mind. It is not there physically at… — Philip Guston
I did some research once on the way people in the past imagined the year 2000. They tended to picture the things they already had… — Gail Collins
I used to have a sort of soft spot for Huckabee. He seemed to have a genuinely saintly streak, which caused him to defend illegal… — Gail Collins
If beggars do not hate the rest of us, they are even more abject than I had imagined. — Mason Cooley

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