Imagining Quotes

• History does not repeat itself. Nor does it unfold in cycles. The real future is contingent, rich beyond imagining, a perennial gobsmack, tragic and glorious in equal measure; the pundits' future, spun of 'conventional wisdom,' is only a sucker punch to that common-sense fact.

  

  Rick Perlstein
  • Imagining
  • Contingent
  • Perennial

• For what I can imagine and feel and think and hear, I can hardly do anything on the acoustic bass. It used to be just pure frustration of imagining so much more and being able to get to a certain level of execution.

  

  Esperanza Spalding
  • Imagine
  • Frustration
  • Bass

• I look at books as a child looks at cakes - with glittering eyes and a watering mouth, imagining the pleasure that awaits him.

  

  Elizabeth Gaskell
  • Child
  • Books
  • Imagining

• I asked God "Why, why, why?" I turned my face away and wished that I were imagining it all. I had tasted the bitterest essence of war, the sight of helpless comrades being slaughtered, and it filled me with disgust.

  

  Eugene B. Sledge
  • God
  • Wished
  • Disgust

• The pleasure that attaches to the artistic life comes in imagining what we might do as opposed to acknowledging what we have done.

  

  Deborah Solomon
  • Pleasure
  • Imagining
  • Acknowledging

• In Quiet Dell, Phillips mesmerizingly spins together fact and fiction, vividly imagining the circumstances leading to their deaths, and sets a young female reporter on the case to solve it.

  

  Elissa Schappell
  • Circumstances
  • Fiction
  • Female

• Mountains inspire awe in any human person who has a soul. They remind us of our frailty, our unimportance, of the briefness of our span on this earth. They touch the heavens, and sail serenely at an altitude beyond even the imaginings of a mere mortal.

  

  Elizabeth Aston
  • Soul
  • Inspire
  • Mountains

• None but the most blindly credulous will imaging the characters and events in this story to be anything but fictitious. It is true that the ancient and noble city of Oxford is, of all the towns of England, the likeliest progenitor of unlikely events and persons. But there are limits.

  

  Edmund Crispin
  • Characters
  • Limits
  • England

• The dumber the thing is, the more excitement I get from imagining a very complex world of truth around it.

  

  Oneohtrix Point Never
  • Excitement
  • Complex
  • Imagining

• As the writer of a pseudonymous book, I gave up my own accumulated history as a novelist and became what I had been as a child: unnamed, unidentified, unacknowledged. Invisible. In a very real sense, what I hope for in the process of imagining a book is to disappear.

  

  Susan Shreve
  • Child
  • Writer
  • Disappear

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