Because we imagine, we can have invention and technology. It's actually play, not necessity, that is the mother of invention.

- Alison Gopnik

The real romantics imagine greying and sagging and wrinkling as the deepening of something sacred.

- Ann Voskamp

I didn't ever imagine, except in the most idle, obviously wish-fulfillment, ego-gratification fantasies, that anything I wrote would ever win awards, let alone so many.

- Ann Leckie

Science fiction is huge and varied, and there's almost any sort of book or story you might imagine.

- Ann Leckie

While all the other kids were out playing ball and stuff, I used to stay in my room and imagine that there was a camera in the wall. And I used to really believe that I was putting on a television show and that it was going out to somewhere in the world.

- Andy Kaufman

I'm probably a believer in abandoning too-big-to-fail firms or breaking them up in some way so that the system can try to take care of itself. I imagine you're not going to get there, and therefore, I suspect regulation is what's going to be required.

- Andrew Ross Sorkin

I can't imagine going to an all-girls school. I went to a public school.

- Amy Sedaris

I can't imagine actually singing on this show like I did on 'Felicity', but it would be kind of funny.

- Amy Jo Johnson

Can you ever imagine yourself in a situation like Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie or Kim Kardashian and Kanye West, where the world feels like they have a stake in your private life? I would never want it.

- Amber Heard

I would never imagine a mate based on a certain sex or race.

- Amber Heard

We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we all do better?'

- Abraham Lincoln

I can't imagine a more ideal life.

- Al Jarreau

I'm sure you can imagine it's pretty frustrating to have people talking about your private life who don't know anything about it.

- Aisha Tyler

There are parts of New Zealand that I absolutely fell in love with that I will miss going back to, but I kind of think that is the part that can continue and will continue on. I don't imagine I'll stop going back to New Zealand, because I feel part of the fabric there, really.

- Andy Serkis

To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.

- Anatole France

I can imagine in years to come that my papers and memorabilia, my journals and letters, will find themselves always in the company of people who care about many of the things I do.

- Alice Walker

It's very hard for our parents who see us enter a world that they can't imagine.

- Alice Walker

When you're young, when you've never done anything very much on your own, you imagine that it won't be so hard.

- Alice Paul

I'm an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger. What works for me is working out when it's useful to use that anger.

- Alan Alda

It drives me nuts how I rely on my wife for everything. I can't imagine a day without her!

- Akshay Kumar