Imagining Quotes

308 quotes by 263 authors

Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to… — Donald Knuth
Practicing is not only playing your instrument, either by yourself or rehearsing with others - it also includes imagining yourself practicing. Your brain forms the… — Yo-Yo Ma
Record sales don't really mean anything. For us, the pressure is imagining some 15-year-old kid in Cincinnati who buys our album and doesn't feel like… — Chris Martin
There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
When you're imagining peace, you can't kill anyone. That's good isn't it? — Yoko Ono
When I write, I'm still imagining a kid reading it on paper. I read e-books when I travel, but in general I still prefer holding… — Rick Riordan
I had the conviction that lovemaking fools you. The overpowering emotions it induces make you think you're sharing the same feelings as the other person… — Greta Scacchi
I sit in places like Costa Coffee in Banstead and write rubbish. I need a deadline. I think about the 44 tour dates and keep… — Tim Vine
Imagining something is better than remembering something. — John Irving
Once in an age God sends to some of us a friend who loves in us, not a false-imagining, an unreal character, but looking through… — Harriet Beecher Stowe
...there were certain chapters when I stopped writing, saw the domestic situation I was in and thought, "I don't want to face this world, let's… — Alasdair Gray
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. — Carl Jung
Sometimes we get through adversity only by imagining what the world might be like if our dreams should ever come true. — Arthur Golden
Love is not simply the sum of sweet greetings and wrenching partings and kisses and embraces, but is made up more of the memory of… — Anita Shreve
Something that had been a single cell, a cluster of cells, a little sac of tissue, a kind of worm, a potential fish with gills,… — Aldous Huxley
Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one… — John Green
In the Middle Ages, cathendrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a fire is like imagining a World War II movie… — Umberto Eco
Cherie, did the table do something I did not see or were you just attempting to teach it a lesson?" "I was imagining it was… — Alexandra Ivy
For three months, a person sits and looks at you, imagining a kiss. — Etgar Keret
People of limited intelligence are fond of talking about "these days," imagining that they have discovered and appraised the peculiarities of "these days" and that… — Leo Tolstoy

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