Judy Blume Quotes
My husband says I have too much imagination, but I don't think a writer can have too much imagination!
Quotes to Explore
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Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!
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They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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Reducing the price of AIDS drugs gave me so much satisfaction that I've been thinking what else I could do. One day, I thought, 'Let's look at cancer and see how we can spare cancer patients' unnecessary suffering.'
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The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
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We humans lack imagination, to the point of not even knowing what tomorrow's important things will look like.
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I think my printing to this day looks like the printing right out of a comic book. Actually, I always wanted to be in a comic book. I watched cartoons when I was a kid, too, and both comics and cartoons lit fire in my imagination. This realm holds a lot of interest for me, a lot of passion for me. So to be comic-ized, yeah, that's cool.
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An auctioneer is such a uniquely American thing. I keep thinking in my head, perhaps it's not as American as I think, but it feels so Southern. It feels so American. Like, hundreds of years of American tradition is involved in it.
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Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience.
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My husband is a former rocker and in charge of our humungous music collection, and I've recently been asking him for classical music.
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My advice is not always so logical and consistent. But then, love is not logical and consistent. So why should my advice be? If you want that kind of thinking, go to a computer. Computers are always logical and consistent, and you see how often they get proposed to.
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Most of the time I'm thinking, I'm glad that scene was improvised.
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People do think you're more intelligent if you have dark hair. But my husband definitely prefers me as a blonde.
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I started thinking: 'Okay, what's wrong with wearing a bikini? I look better than I looked in quite a few years, so why not? What am I afraid of?
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Thinking should become your capital asset, whatever ups and downs you may come across in your life.
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For the poet, the imagination is paramount, and . . . he dwells apart in his imagination, as the philosopher dwells in his reason, and as the priest dwells in his belief … The imagination is the power of the mind over the possibilities of things.'
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Besides, isn't there something in the book of rules about a man may not marry his cousin? Or am I thinking of grandmothers?
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Imagination is an infinite resource that cannot be diminished by overuse or underuse.
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'What, concretely, is Enlightenment?' 'Seeing Reality as it is,' said the Master. 'Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?' 'Oh, no! Most people see it as they believe it is.' 'What's the difference?' 'The difference between thinking you are drowning in a stormy sea and knowing you cannot drown because there isn't any water in sight for miles around.'
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Without effort and change, human life cannot remain good. It is not a finished Utopia that we ought to desire, but a world where imagination and hope are alive and active.
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My husband is from Florence. And he has a 15th-century barn that is completely rustic and very 'Green Acres'-like.
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I think that we had a different view of what the 21st century could be like, with much more of a sense, from our perspective, of trying to have an interdependent world: looking at solving regional conflicts, having strength in alliances, operating within some kind of a sense that we were part of the international community and not outside of it.
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The acceptance of all that God has given us and the willingness to let it go - to give it back to him at a moment's notice - that's true human freedom.
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My husband says I have too much imagination, but I don't think a writer can have too much imagination!
