#imagined

I don't think that my parents even imagined that I would be exposed to drugs. In those days, for some reason, it was not talked about, just like sex was not talked about. ↗

— Natalie Cole

#days #even #exposed #i #imagined

You have to look at the discrepancy between what you hoped and imagined and the reality of yourself and all your shortcomings. ↗

— Richard Grant

#discrepancy #hoped #imagined #look #reality

Some people just come in, do it and they know it's right. It turns out better than you imagined it was going to sound. When that happens, you take it as a gift. ↗

— Jules Shear

#come #gift #going #happens #imagined

Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#anticipations #cannot #day #day to day #each

What is now proved was once only imagined. ↗

— William Blake

#now #once #only #proved

I started looking at small companies that were running a sort of virtual reality cottage industry: I had imagined that I would just put on a helmet and be somewhere else - that's your dream of what it's going to be. ↗

— Thomas Dolby

#cottage #dream #else #going #had

I thought that when I won the Olympic trials I was going to be the happiest person in the whole world. And I was happy. But it wasn't like I thought it was going to be. I had already imagined it in my head so many times. It was real before it happened. ↗

— Marlen Esparza

#before #going #had #happened #happiest

Mental agitations and eating cares are more injurious to health, and destructive of life, than is commonly imagined, and could their effects be collected, would make no inconsiderable figure in the bills of mortality. ↗

— William Falconer

#bills #cares #collected #commonly #could

Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined. ↗

— Johnny Carson

#continue #could #doing #enjoy #had

I was excited that my films would finally see the light of day and people would see them. But I never imagined that such nice things would be said about a lot of my films. ↗

— Jessica Chastain

#day #excited #films #finally #i