quotes about Imagining Things

“Forgiveness isn't simply an option or a good idea; it is mandatory for our restorative process.”

Source : "Empire Actor Grace Gealey: Gratitude and Forgiveness". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

“I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure. The tedium was relieved by a few courses that seem to be qualitatively different. Geometry was the first exciting course I remember. Instead of memorizing facts, we were asked to think in clear, logical steps. Beginning from a few intuitive postulates, far reaching consequences could be derived, and I took immediately to the sport of proving theorems.”

“Keep in mind that I'm crazy, won't you?”

“There were people who said the Society of Cincinnati in the American revolution, of which George Washington was one of the shining lights, was a branch of the Illuminati.”

“Magic is the art of changing consciousness at will.”

“Years ago R.N.A. was kind of a bit player in the cell. Now our picture's completely inverted, and we think R.N.A.'s really the important thing.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org

“All the ills of mankind spring from belonging to a race, a nation, a city, a group of some kind. The ideal would be to belong to none, and to care for allbut who is capable of that?”

Source : Collected in Notebooks 1960-1994 (1994).

“I used to lie down on the grass and draw the blades as they grew - until every square foot of meadow, or mossy bank, became a possession to me.”

“When you realize someone is trying to hurt you, it hurts less." "Unless you love them.”

“You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders' skirts.”