imagine quotes

To be an American (unlike being English or French or whatever) is precisely to imagine a destiny rather than to inherit one; since we have always been, insofaras we are Americans at all, inhabitants of myth rather than history.

- Leslie A(aron) Fiedler
  'Cross the BorderClose  the Gap', in Playboy, Dec.

   If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human facefor ever.

- George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair Orwell
  Nineteen Eighty-Four, pt.3, ch.3.

There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.

- Logan Pearsall Smith
Afterthoughts,'Age and Death'.

Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.

-James Grover Thurber
  Letter to Malcolm Cowley,11 Mar.