Quotes about Imaginary

Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't. Votes: 4

I was the kid next door's imaginary friend. Votes: 4

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings. Votes: 4

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults. Votes: 4

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. Votes: 4

This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof. Votes: 4

Imaginary evils are incurable. Votes: 3

Imaginary diseases are the hardest to cure. Votes: 3

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them. Votes: 3

Imaginary time is a new dimension, at right angles to ordinary, real time. Votes: 3

Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being. Votes: 3

San Francisco leads the world in the category of Most People On The Sidewalk Holding Conversations With Purely Imaginary Companions. Votes: 3

Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating. Votes: 3

Imaginary pains are by far the most real we suffer, since we feel a constant need for them and invent them because there is no way of doing without them. Votes: 3

I like cartoons. I like 'Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends.' It's funny! It has things that kids wouldn't get. It's like, if you're mature, you get it. I like that and 'The Fairly OddParents.' Votes: 3

Imaginary friends are one of the weirder forms of pretend play in childhood. But the research shows that imaginary friends actually help children understand the other people around them and imagine all the many ways that people could be. Votes: 3

Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances. Votes: 2

I used to have an imaginary friend named Michael. Votes: 2

We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise. Votes: 2

Alternatives, and particularly desirable alternatives, grow only on imaginary trees. Votes: 2

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads. Votes: 2

From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines. Votes: 2

You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend. Votes: 2

The imaginary world has always been the most fun place for me to be. Votes: 2

It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere. Votes: 2

He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary. Votes: 2

It is a queer thing, but imaginary troubles are harder to bear than actual ones. Votes: 2

I was a real daydreamer at school, gazing out of the window and losing myself in imaginary worlds. Votes: 2

Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist. Votes: 2

Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could write. Votes: 2

I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear. Votes: 2

Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real. Votes: 2

A lot of my research time is spent daydreaming - telling an imaginary admiring audience of laymen how to understand some difficult scientific idea. Votes: 2

The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character without presuming to display them as real or imaginary representations. Votes: 2

Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon. Votes: 2

Growing up as a chubby kid with a ton of imaginary friends and a Cyndi Lauper obsession, I learned about rejection early on and was constantly trying to avoid it. Votes: 2

I spent my childhood in an imaginary world - probably because I needed an escape. I think that's one of the reasons people have imaginations - because they can't maintain existence here. Votes: 2

We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become. Votes: 2

Children, I mean, think of your own childhood, how important the bedtime story was. How important these imaginary experiences were for you. They helped shape reality, and I think human beings wouldn't be human without narrative fiction. Votes: 2

That raises a terrible question. How is it that people who are quite obviously eaten up with Pride can say they believe in God and appear to themselves very religious? I am afraid it means they are worshiping an imaginary God. Votes: 2

Writing Part of the Scenery has been a very different experience. I have been reminded of people and events, real and imaginary which have been part of my life. This book is a celebration of the land which means so much to me. Votes: 2

The more science I studied, the more I saw that physics becomes metaphysics and numbers become imaginary numbers. The farther you go into science, the mushier the ground gets. You start to say, 'Oh, there is an order and a spiritual aspect to science.' Votes: 2

The imaginary is not formed in opposition to reality as its denial or compensation; it grows among signs, from book to book, in the interstice of repetitions and commentaries; it is born and takes shape in the interval between books. It is the phenomena of the library. Votes: 2

So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born. Votes: 2

As a child, I felt that Hallowe'en was a time when creatures of the night suddenly came to life - we would turn off all the lights in the house and let flickering candlelight conjure up scary shadows and create the effect of imaginary figures lurking in dark corners. Votes: 2

Everything has a sort of double meaning for me, there's the ordinary everyday meaning of things, and the imaginary meaning about it all, and I wanted to bring these things together, and in this first big Resurrection of mine you have a good example of this sort of thing. Votes: 2

Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter without adequate inducement or justification. Votes: 2

I think I've always been drawn to the second person. When I was growing up and playing with my friends, the usual way we interacted with imaginary worlds was as characters: a bench was 'your' boat, leaves on a lawn were the fins of sharks out to get 'you.' Votes: 2

Real shapes and real patterns are things you would observe in nature, like the marks on the back of a cobra's hood or the markings on a fish or a lizard. Imaginary shapes are just that, symbols that come to a person in dreams or reveries and are charged with meaning. Votes: 2

In the early 1940s, as a young teenager, I was utterly appalled by the racist and jingoist hysteria of the anti-Japanese propaganda. The Germans were evil, but treated with some respect: They were, after all, blond Aryan types, just like our imaginary self-image. Japanese were mere vermin, to be crushed like ants. Votes: 2

Youth is impulsive. When our young men grow angry at some real or imaginary wrong, and disfigure their faces with black paint, it denotes that their hearts are black, and that they are often cruel and relentless, and our old men and old women are unable to restrain them. Thus it has ever been. Votes: 2

I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were. Votes: 2

What the Negro wants - and will not stop until he gets - is absolute and unqualified freedom and equality here in this land of his birth, and not in Africa or in some imaginary state. The Negro no longer will be tolerant of anything less than his due right and heritage. He is pursuing only that which he knows is honorably his. He knows that he is right. Votes: 2

Men suck, even imaginary ones Votes: 0

Writers fly with imaginary wings. Votes: 0

Real. Does that make me imaginary? Votes: 0

Today's imaginary band name: The Significan't. Votes: 0

My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real. Votes: 0

Understanding replaces imaginary fears with real ones. Votes: 0

All the literati keep An imaginary friend. Votes: 0

I'm not interested in an imaginary world. Votes: 0

The incurable ills are the imaginary ills. Votes: 0

Unicorns are real and emo is imaginary. Votes: 0

I'm not interested in an imaginary world Votes: 0

All fear is imaginary, reality is its antidote. Votes: 0

Divisions are imaginary lines drawn by small minds. Votes: 0

The imaginary is what tends to become real. Votes: 0

My imaginary friends have become my imaginary children. Votes: 0

Do not be content with an imaginary god. Votes: 0

This is an IMAGINARY STORY...aren't they all? Votes: 0

As a child, I was an imaginary playmate. Votes: 0

The consolation of imaginary things is not imaginary consolation. Votes: 0

The stronger the imagination, the less imaginary the results. Votes: 0

Love.. is seeing the unity under the imaginary diversity. Votes: 0

Heaven and Hell are imaginary creation of ignorant minds. Votes: 0

Our journey is entirely imaginary. That is its strength. Votes: 0

True stories deal with hunger, imaginary ones with love. Votes: 0

Just because it's imaginary, doesn't mean it's not real. Votes: 0

We should allow ourselves all pleasures, real or imaginary. Votes: 0

Many pains are imaginary, but all joys are real. Votes: 0

The giant imaginary bottle of whiskey is with me. Votes: 0

The author: an imaginary person who writes real books. Votes: 0

Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. Votes: 0

I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake. Votes: 0

The real world is much smaller than the imaginary Votes: 0

All the literati keep at least one imaginary friend. Votes: 0

Eden, paradise - all the best gardens are imaginary. Votes: 0

The defensive power of a pinned piece is only imaginary Votes: 0

Those who do not have imaginary conversations do not love. Votes: 0

In any case, the fear of subservience is quite imaginary. Votes: 0

The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction. Votes: 0

And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one. Votes: 0

what is an imaginary friend? are there also imaginary enemies? Votes: 0

Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys, and eagerly pursues imaginary joys. Votes: 0

Almost all our cares are imaginary. We think them into existence. Votes: 0

Through the power of art imaginary landscapes turn into real ones. Votes: 0

Atreyu comes from a land called Fantasia. It's an imaginary land. Votes: 0

The imaginary audience for my life is growing small and silent. Votes: 0

Sex is not imaginary, but it is not quite real either. Votes: 0

Today we often use deadlines—real and imaginary—to imprison ourselves. Votes: 0

To connect is to dissolve the imaginary pyramids of artificial privilege. Votes: 0

I adore imaginary monsters, but I am terrified of real ones. Votes: 0

Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience. Votes: 0

How few our real wants, and how vast our imaginary ones! Votes: 0

I had imaginary friends and even they were mean to me. Votes: 0

The desire for imaginary benefits often involves the loss of present blessings. Votes: 0

To me genres were always an imaginary things, they're just marketing channels. Votes: 0

The realisation that limitations are imaginary will make you strong and overpowering. Votes: 0

I don't write fantasy; I write historical novels about an imaginary place. Votes: 0

Acting is the ability to live truthfully under the given imaginary circumstances Votes: 0

There's a level of realism you can only achieve through the imaginary. Votes: 0

I still have imaginary friends who I talk to in my head. Votes: 0

You ride astride the imaginary in order to hunt down the real. Votes: 0

My father would pass gas and then blame it on imaginary animals. Votes: 0

It is folly to anticipate evils, and madness to create imaginary ones. Votes: 0

The horizon is an imaginary line that recedes as you approach it. Votes: 0

It's a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills. Votes: 0

Nothing is so costly as the pursuit of a cure for imaginary ills. Votes: 0

The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism. Votes: 0

Loss is imaginary. Nothing ever disappears in the universe; it only changes form. Votes: 0

Writing is a consciousness formally at work in the territory of the imaginary. Votes: 0

imaginary things were often the only items of real substance in people's lives. Votes: 0

MATERIAL, adj. Having an actual existence, as distinguished from an imaginary one. Important. Votes: 0

Ideology represents the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence. Votes: 0

When you write a novel, you make other people see your imaginary friends. Votes: 0

What luxury, to be so happy that we can grieve over imaginary lives. Votes: 0

Mathematicians enjoy thinking about the simplest possible things, and the simplestpossible things are imaginary. Votes: 0

The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness. Votes: 0

Filmmaking for me is always aiming for the imaginary movie and never achieving it. Votes: 0

Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable. Votes: 0

Maybe God is an asshole...of course not, he's not an asshole, he's imaginary. Votes: 0

We live in imaginary, virtual worlds created by corporations that profit from our deception. Votes: 0

A sanctity hangs about the sources of our being, whether physical, social, or imaginary. Votes: 0

Novels set in imaginary futures are necessarily about the moment in which they are written. Votes: 0

Honor's a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs. Votes: 0

Listening to Britons dining out is like watching people play first-class tennis with imaginary balls. Votes: 0

The novel is a meditation on existence as seen through the medium of imaginary characters. Votes: 0

PITIFUL, adj. The state of an enemy or opponent after an imaginary encounter with oneself. Votes: 0

ARENA, n. In politics, an imaginary rat-pit in which the statesman wrestles with his record. Votes: 0

What I really do is take real plums and put them in an imaginary cake. Votes: 0

A relationship with an imaginary woman is preferable to a relationship with a real one. Votes: 0

An imaginary baby is so much easier than a real baby. No diapers to change. Votes: 0

Don Quixote is not an imaginary person; he is as real as Alexander the Great. Votes: 0

John McEnroe looks as if he is serving round the edge of an imaginary building. Votes: 0

The best vacation is still a book, a renewable ticket to places real and imaginary. Votes: 0

I make up stories about people who are either imaginary or some variation of myself. Votes: 0

I can't even trust my own imaginary dog. How much lower can a person get? Votes: 0

Books are like brothers. I am an only child. Gatsby [is] my imaginary eldest brother. Votes: 0

Ideas about our own self-worth are no more real than thoughts about an imaginary chair. Votes: 0

Religious war at its simplest is killing each other over who has the best imaginary friend. Votes: 0

Don't be an actor. Be a human being who works off what exists under imaginary circumstances. Votes: 0

In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power. Votes: 0

Mandy would much rather have imaginary friends who were real than real friends who were imaginary. Votes: 0

A true friend never asks you to feed their imaginary fish. Or fertilize their imaginary crops. Votes: 0

It now appears that the way the universe began can indeed be determined, using imaginary time. Votes: 0

The things I fear may all be imaginary, so what I fear most is my imagination. Votes: 0

The Krishna of the Gita is perfection and right knowledge personified, but the picture is imaginary. Votes: 0

History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness. Votes: 0

Just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are. Votes: 0

Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real. Votes: 0

In my imaginary utopian world there would be a greater allegiance between music writers and musicians. Votes: 0

History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness. Votes: 0

Every life has a love story, even though the beloved may be imaginary, or a cat. Votes: 0

Been brainwashed since age 2 I only had imaginary friends And still do And they hate you Votes: 0

Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else. Votes: 0

History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia. Votes: 0

When people are facing real hardships in their lives, they have no time to invent imaginary ones. Votes: 0

To rehearse imaginary conversations on paper is called literature. To do so out loud is called madness. Votes: 0

Can you imagine Simon as a kid? His imaginary friends probably never wanted to play with him. Votes: 0

The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are imaginary. Votes: 0

What is the heart? It is not human and it is not imaginary. I call it you. Votes: 0

The past is dead; The future is imaginary; Happiness can only be in the Eternal Now Moment. Votes: 0

I am not responsible for actions of the imaginary version of me you have inside your head. Votes: 0

I'm creating an imaginary — it's always imaginary — world in which I would like to live. Votes: 0

Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter. Votes: 0

Medical school had been a time for imaginary diseases and Martin had contracted almost all of them. Votes: 0

Pride is the utter poverty of soul disguised as riches, imaginary light where in fact there is darkness. Votes: 0

Art is real and imaginary, two worlds rolled into one - the fulfillment of the artist's insatiable soul. Votes: 0

An imaginary perfection is automatically at the same level as I who imagine it neither higher nor lower. Votes: 0

But primitive man had enemies real as well as imaginary, and they were not subject to priestly sorceries. Votes: 0

The imaginary flowers of religion adorn man's chains. Man must throw off the flowers, and also the chains. Votes: 0

Maybe that's all that family really is, a group of people who all miss the same imaginary place. Votes: 0

I am giddy, expectation whirls me round. The imaginary relish is so sweet That it enchants my sense. Votes: 0

Since most problems are created by our imagination and are thus imaginary, all we need are imaginary solutions. Votes: 0

My mom said I was an escapist at heart.... that I preferred imaginary worlds to the real one Votes: 0

If you look on wealth as a thing to be valued your imaginary poverty will cause you torment. Votes: 0

I was a loner as a child. I had an imaginary friend - I didn't bother with him. Votes: 0

It is not right to associate the fight against international terrorist networks with an imaginary crusade against Islam. Votes: 0

I was such a nerd in high school, I didn't even have imaginary friends, I had imaginary bullies. Votes: 0

I was a real daydreamer at school, gazing out of the window and losing myself in imaginary worlds Votes: 0

When you go to the theater, you are slipping out of your life into someone else's imaginary world. Votes: 0

If conversion makes no improvements in a man's outward actions then I think his 'conversion' was largely imaginary. Votes: 0

I'm extremely moved by the loving, caring relationship the President always seems to have with his imaginary son. Votes: 0

The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary. Votes: 0

In Western-style Communism we would have to create an almost imaginary workers' image of themselves as the father-figure. Votes: 0

Sleep deprivation made his life an imaginary thing, his days a ribbon floating aimlessly in water." - Whelk Votes: 0

There is an imaginary circle drawn around every human being, over which no government should be able to step. Votes: 0

Under the imaginary table that separates me from my readers, don’t we secretly clasp each other’s hands? Votes: 0

We have so many opportunities in first world countries. Let's not squander them by focusing on obstacles-real or imaginary! Votes: 0

No doubt the world is entirely an imaginary world, but it is only once removed from the true world. Votes: 0

I had a very close relationship with another kid when I was growing up. I was his imaginary friend. Votes: 0

I don't think I've ever prayed in my entire life, never sat and had an imaginary chat with God. Votes: 0

Josh speculated about the hypothetical contents of an imaginary porn magazine for intelligent trees that would be entitled Enthouse. Votes: 0

I learned not to care ... and to write for an imaginary reader whose tastes were similar to my own. Votes: 0

Anxiety is practising failure in advance. Anxiety is needless and imaginary. It's fear about fear, fear that means nothing. Votes: 0

It's strange how dreams get under your skin and give your heart a test for what's real and what's imaginary. Votes: 0

The fairytale is irresponsible; it is frankly imaginary, and its purpose is to gratify wishes, as a dream doth flatter. Votes: 0

When real nobleness accompanies that imaginary one of birth, the imaginary seems to mix with real, and becomes real too. Votes: 0

Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run. Votes: 0

Real evils can be either cured or endured; it is only imaginary evils that make people anxiety-ridden for a lifetime. Votes: 0

If you can't ignore imperfections, then your imaginary ideal soulmate will always remain pending till you grow old and die. Votes: 0

Proofs are the last thing looked for by a truly religious mind which feels the imaginary fitness of its faith. Votes: 0

Our real nature is not our imaginary, limited ego. Our true nature is vast, all-comprehensive, and intangible as empty space. Votes: 0

We shouldn't even need the word 'atheism'. If people didn't invent ridiculous imaginary gods, rational people wouldn't have to deny them. Votes: 0

I've always had a really active imagination. Lots of kids have imaginary friends. Mine just took on a rather demonic form. Votes: 0

However spontaneous it seems, laughter always implies a kind of secret freemasonry, or even complicity, with other laughers, real or imaginary. Votes: 0

We will not, therefore, lose our time praying to an imaginary god for things which our own exertions alone can procure. Votes: 0

We may learn from children how large a part of our grievances is imaginary. But the pain is just as real. Votes: 0

The first-born in every family is always dreaming for an imaginary older brother or sister who will look out for them. Votes: 0

There are two kinds of Arctic problems, the imaginary and the real. Of the two, the imaginary are the most real. Votes: 0

When I was a kid, I had two friends, and they were imaginary and they would only play with each other. Votes: 0

How I was brought up and my imaginary friend means more to me than anything you can ever say or do. Votes: 0

The goal in life is not to attain some imaginary ideal; it is to find and fully use our own gifts. Votes: 0

You're brave. You are the bravest person I know, and you are my friend. I don't care if you are imaginary. Votes: 0

I never really did abandon my true self. It's not like I invented this imaginary person and started to be her. Votes: 0

If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I'd have fewer imaginary ones. Votes: 0

And every place and time an author writes about is imaginary, from Oz to Raymond Chandler's L.A. to Dickens's London. Votes: 0

How few are our real wants! and how easy is it to satisfy them! Our imaginary ones are boundless and insatiable. Votes: 0

If you're going to war over religion, now you're just getting into a fight over who has the better imaginary friend. Votes: 0

I think having imaginary friends is an amazing coping mechanism. It's pretty wonderful, and it makes a lot of sense to me. Votes: 0

The reason we write fiction is because it's so much easier to exist spending part of each day in an imaginary world. Votes: 0

Without the dreamers who write science fiction and other imaginary material we'd still be sitting in caves ... if we weren't already extinct. Votes: 0

I still think most writers are just kids who refuse to grow up. We're still playing imaginary games, with our imaginary friends. Votes: 0

The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth. Votes: 0

Some things can be both real and imaginary at the same time, . . . some lies can be true, . . . broken faith may be restored. Votes: 0

Abandon fancy theologies and imaginary ideas and do some ordinary daily work... {Engage in this work with} unswerving kindness and unending patience. Votes: 0

All acting is an act of imagination. You are simply conjuring up imaginary circumstances in your mind and responding truthfully to them. Votes: 0

A politician normally prospers under democracy in proportion ... as he excels in the invention of imaginary perils and imaginary defenses against them. Votes: 0

Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery. Votes: 0

PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic. Votes: 0

The good thing about writing a novel is that you're creating an imaginary world and can take a break when you need to. Votes: 0

But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people... Votes: 0

Philosophers make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light because they are so high. Votes: 0

Dear Basketball, From the moment I started rolling my dad's tube socks and shooting imaginary game-winning shots ... I fell in love with you. Votes: 0

Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real. Votes: 0

Boundary, n. In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of another. Votes: 0

After exponential quantities the circular functions, sine and cosine, should be considered because they arise when imaginary quantities are involved in the exponential. Votes: 0

The distinction between what is real and what is imaginary is not one that can be finely maintained ... all existing thing are ... imaginary. Votes: 0

Here's what I love: I love sitting at my desk, staring at the blank screen, and beginning that conversation with my imaginary friends. Votes: 0

I've accepted the fact I have mental illness but when my imaginary friends start calling me crazy that's where I draw the line Votes: 0

I feel like everyone I meet is an imaginary friend. I don't know. The older I get the more I wonder what's real. Votes: 0

The greatest burden in the world is superstition, not only of ceremonies in the church, but of imaginary and scarecrow sins at home. Votes: 0

There is this of good in real evils; they deliver us, while they last, from the petty despotism of all that were imaginary. Votes: 0

Gratitude: An imaginary emotion that rewards an imaginary behavior, altruism. Both imaginaries are false faces for selfishness, which is a real and honest emotion. Votes: 0

Haven't got a girl, but I can wish. So I'll take me down to Main Street and that's where I'll select my imaginary dish. Votes: 0

I've learned the most from Randy Harrison. Because of his fantastic imaginary world filled with bizarre friends. He is constantly giving us good advice. Votes: 0

We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture. Votes: 0

I didn't have an imaginary friend, and even if I did I'm sure it would have been derivative of something I saw on television. Votes: 0

Place, time, life, death, earth, heaven are divisions and distinctions we make, like the imaginary lines we trace upon the surface of the globe. Votes: 0

Are you still thinking, looking, living, as from an imaginary phenomenal centre? As long as you do that you can never recognise your freedom. Votes: 0

Reading requires a loner's temperament, a high tolerance for silence, and an unhealthy preference for the company of people who are imaginary or dead. Votes: 0

Few faults of style, whether real or imaginary, excite the malignity of a more numerous class of readers, than the use of hard words. Votes: 0

The lad who dreams of being a boxing champion or an admiral chooses reality. If the writer chooses the imaginary, he confuses the two. Votes: 0

Actors speak of things imaginary as if they were real, while you preachers too often speak of things real as if they were imaginary. Votes: 0

I'm the idea of the human imagination, which, when you think about it, is the only thing we can really be certain ISN'T imaginary. Votes: 0

Many of our threats are imaginary. The habits and even obsessions that we develop to keep them away are destructive and undermine our moods constantly. Votes: 0

Why all these signs around us that make me doubt language and submerge me in meanings, drowning reality instead of extracting it from the imaginary? Votes: 0

Biking through New York's boroughs in 2005, I thought about some old friends, Joe and Eileen Bailey. Though they are imaginary, I frequently talk to them. Votes: 0

So far as my experience goes, travelers generally exaggerate the difficulties of the way. Like most evil, the difficulty is imaginary; for what's the hurry? Votes: 0

Although fear in the right dosage and under the right circumstance protects us ... imaginary fear offers straitjackets instead of lifejackets, nooses instead of safety nets. Votes: 0

There is no real evil in life, except great pain; all the rest is imaginary, and depends on the light in which we view things Votes: 0

I'm not talking to you from the point of view of wishful thinking or imaginary craziness. i'm talking to you from a deeper, basic understanding. Votes: 0

See, now I don't know whether to be all 'Yay!' because you're empowered or sad because you're having delusional almost-sex with an imaginary boyfriend." Votes: 0

The substance of grief is not imaginary. It's as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things, it can kill. Votes: 0

Man is a wretch without woman; but woman is a monster-and thank Heaven, an almost impossible and hitherto imaginary monster--without man, as her acknowledged principal! Votes: 0

Much of what we see in the universe ... starts out as imaginary. Often you must imagine something before you can come to terms with it. Votes: 0

All writers are obviously neurotic... For various reasons, writers retreat into an imaginary world because they find ordinary life rather difficult or boring or both. Votes: 0

Anything that you have imposed on yourself to be unhappy, to be bound, is a concept. It is an imaginary concept, so give it away. Votes: 0

I take the outline from a real person as inspiration, but the in-line is totally made up. Which is why I usually invent imaginary names. Votes: 0

The fetters imposed on liberty at home have ever been forged out of the weapons provided for defense against real, pretended, or imaginary dangers from abroad. Votes: 0

Half the wrong conclusions at which mankind arrive are reached by the abuse of metaphors, and by mistaking general resemblance or imaginary similarity for real identity. Votes: 0

The future is, of course, imaginary - an unreal place that I create from my expectations, which are made from my remembered experiences, especially repeated experiences. Votes: 0

She was a little given to rehearsing things in her mind, and having imaginary triumphs over people who had upset her in one way and another. Votes: 0

All a writer's characters are imaginary, no matter whether they are based on real people or not. They are people as one imagines them to be. Votes: 0

There is no allurement or enticement, actual or imaginary, which a well-disciplined mind may not surmount. The wish to resist more than half accomplishes the object. Votes: 0

To travel is very useful, it makes the imagination work, the rest is just delusion and pain. Our journey is entirely imaginary, which is its strength. Votes: 0

Self-confidence is apt to address itself to an imaginary dullness in others; as people who are well off speak in a cajoling tone to the poor. Votes: 0

When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever. Votes: 0

There are in life real evils enough, and it is folly to afflict ourselves with imaginary ones; it is time enough when the real ones arrive. Votes: 0

The film from the beginning is not the real world; it's an imaginary world. And this imaginary world is both inside and outside the normal world. Votes: 0

Ninety percent of the time, I'm wearing imaginary people's clothing. I don't feel a huge pressure to go out and, like, hit the town, hit the boutiques. Votes: 0

Talking to people makes me feel like sleeping. Only my ghostly and imaginary friends, only the conversations I have in my dreams, are genuinely real and substantial. Votes: 0

As no two people see the world the same way, all trips from here to there are imaginary; all truth is a tale I am telling myself. Votes: 0

I like to create imaginary characters and events around a real historical situation. I want readers to feel: OK, this probably didn't happen, but it might have. Votes: 0

Some of the secret joys of living are not found by rushing from point A to point B, but by inventing some imaginary letters along the way. Votes: 0

In humility is the greatest freedom. As long as you have to defend the imaginary self that you think is important, you lose your peace of heart. Votes: 0

You can not retain a true and clear vision of wealth if you are constantly turning your attention to opposing pictures, whether they be external or imaginary. Votes: 0

While we allow the inhabitants of imaginary remote corners the authenticity of savages or sufferers, we rarely suppose them to possess the authenticity of complex, sophisticated perceptions. Votes: 0

As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure. Votes: 0

Every time I finish a book, I say to an imaginary god that I do not believe in, 'Please let me live to write another one.' Votes: 0

As the daydreams grew longer, the distinction between what was real and what was imaginary grew less. Soon I existed in a blissful world of my own creation. Votes: 0

To be crazy is not necessarily to writhe in snake pits or converse with imaginary gods. It can sometimes be not knowing what to do in the morning. Votes: 0

Our business here is to be Utopian, to make vivid and credible, if we can, first this facet and then that, of an imaginary whole and happy world. Votes: 0

Necessity hath no law. Feigned necessities, imaginary necessities, are the greatest cozenage men can put upon the Providence of God, and make pretences to break known rules by. Votes: 0

When my head is in the typewriter the last thing on my mind is some imaginary reader. I don't have an audience; I have a set of standards. Votes: 0

What is the function that a clergyman performs in the world? Answer: He gets his living by assuring idiots that he can save them from an imaginary hell. Votes: 0

Millions of Germans had absolute faith in Hitler. Millions of Russians had faith in Stalin. Millions of Chinese had faith in Mao. Billions have had faith in imaginary gods. Votes: 0

I write fantasy because it's there. I have no other excuse for sitting down for several hours a day indulging my imagination. Daydreaming. Thinking up imaginary people, impossible places. Votes: 0

James's expedition to Scotland is wholly imaginary, though there appears to have been space for it during Henry's progress to the North to pay his devotions at Beverley Minster. Votes: 0

The community of mathematicians is similar to an imaginary community of musical composers whose only satisfaction is obtained by the interchange among themselves of the musical scores they compose. Votes: 0

Men should continue to fight, but they should fight for things worth while, not for imaginary geographical lines, racial prejudices and private greed draped in the color's of patriotism. Votes: 0

Because imaginary time behaves like another direction in space, histories in imaginary time can be closed surfaces, like the surface of the Earth, with no [existential] beginning or end. Votes: 0

At some point I believe one has to stop holding back for fear of alienating some imaginary reader or real relative or friend, and come out with personal truth. Votes: 0

I started writing because I decided I was too old to play pretend in the backyard. Then I found that I could create those imaginary worlds on the page. Votes: 0

If I need a cause for celebration, Or a comfort I can use to ease my mind, I rely on my imagination, And I dream of an imaginary time. Votes: 0

A minority is only thought of as a minority when it constitutes some kind of threat to the majority, real or imaginary. And no threat is ever quite imaginary. Votes: 0

We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are. Votes: 0

I didn't want to give the white reader an opportunity to think of racism as imaginary - a sentiment that is already a central barrier in addressing the problem. Votes: 0

I think the written word is my first love. I was just a very imagination - centered child and a big part of that imaginary life came from reading. Votes: 0

I was like, what the hell is my life coming to? I'm a trained actor! I've done Shakespeare and here I am having farting contests with an imaginary dog! Votes: 0

Each of us is incomplete compared to someone else - an animal's incomplete compared to a person... and a person compared to God, who is complete only to be imaginary. Votes: 0

The toaster (lacking real bread) would pretend to make two crispy slices of toast. Or, if the day seemed special in some way, it would toast an imaginary English muffin. Votes: 0

The average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary. It takes a special sort of man to understand and enjoy liberty and he is usually an outlaw in democratic societies. Votes: 0

Lonely children often have imaginary playmates but I was never lonely; rather, I was solitary, and wanted no company at all other than books and movies, and my own imagination. Votes: 0

It's true that writing is a solitary occupation, but you would be surprised at how much companionship a group of imaginary characters can offer once you get to know them. Votes: 0

Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand, leaves them at an imaginary level. Votes: 0

I should almost therefore put forward the proposal that the third hypothsis (angle sum of a triangle less than two right angles) holds on the surface of an imaginary sphere. Votes: 0

I'm not really afraid of things that are imaginary. I enjoy it. I enjoy big narrative, and I enjoy big feelings. Having a feeling is never going to kill you. Votes: 0

It is only through fiction and the dimension of the imaginary that we can learn something real about individual experience. Any other approach is bound to be general and abstract. Votes: 0

I want you, as a reader, to experience what I experience, to let that other world, that imaginary world that I have created, tell you things about the real world. Votes: 0

I had an imaginary friend. I don't know when I stopped having an imaginary friend, but my mom and everybody in my family remembers it pretty good. It's definitely true. Votes: 0

Blending consensus historical events and personages with imaginary occult forces is a strong recipe for counterfactual storytelling goodness that combines the best of two worlds: resonant history with wild-eyed fantasy. Votes: 0

A lot of the songs on the new album are about imaginary things, things that you can't touch - ghosts and rumors, my dead grandmother, things visiting you in a dream. Votes: 0

The Bristol Channel was always my guide, and I was always able to draw an imaginary line from my bed to our house over in Wales. It was a great comfort. Votes: 0

See, when you lie to me it hurts," Rixon said, swiping an imaginary tear. "I thought we had something special. I thought our joint eternal sentences of damnation were our bond. Votes: 0

The contradictions the mind comes up against, these are the only realities, the criterion of the real. There is no contradiction in what is imaginary. Contradiction is the test of necessity. Votes: 0

A vague uncritical idealism always lends itself to ridicule and too much of it might be a danger to mankind, leading it round in a futile wild-goose chase for imaginary ideals. Votes: 0

Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that happened because of an imaginary tale. Votes: 0

We actors do this to pretend, to go into imaginary circumstances, so when the imaginary circumstance is of a different time, that just compounds the joy of doing what we do. Votes: 0

She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable. Votes: 0

I was 21 years and 218 days old when I received the Academy Award for Best Actress. I had just stepped into an imaginary world that I'd seen at a distance for years. Votes: 0

I can relate to historical characters or imaginary ones. It doesn't matter if a story takes place in the future or in the present, as long as the story is compelling. Votes: 0

A reader can never tell if it's a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you're reading it, they're the same. It's a thimble. It's in the book. Votes: 0

The blood weeps from my heart when I do shape, In forms imaginary, th' unguided days And rotten times that you shall look upon When I am sleeping with my ancestors. Votes: 0

The way to be invisible - is to truly be imaginary. But since you cannot imagine yourself, you have to clone your imagination into being an image of yourself. Imagine that. Votes: 0

The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead. Votes: 0

Most of us, I suppose, have a secret country but for most of us it is only an imaginary country. Edmund and Lucy were luckier than other people in that respect. Votes: 0

Evil, as evil, can never be chosen; and though evil is often the effect of our own choice, yet we never desire it but under the appearance of an imaginary good. Votes: 0

The irruption of the supernatural into our world is a much more enticing notion to explore than the same thing happening in some past time, or in a wholly imaginary world. Votes: 0

At last she shut the book sharply, lay back, and drew a deep breath, expressive of the wonder which always marks the transition from the imaginary world to the real world. Votes: 0

...after a certain quantity, photos apparently taken by chance, postcards chosen according to a passing mood, begin to trace an itinerary, to map the imaginary country that stretches out before us. Votes: 0

Middle-earth is our world. I have (of course) placed the action in a purely imaginary (though not wholly impossible) period of antiquity, in which the shape of the continental masses was different. Votes: 0

Not till the poets among us can be "literalists of the imagination"-above insolence and triviality and can present for inspection, "imaginary gardens with real toads in them." shall we have it. Votes: 0

Hope calculates its scenes for a long and durable life; presses forward to imaginary points of bliss; and grasps at impossibilities; and consequently very often ensnares men into beggary, ruin and dishonor. Votes: 0

HOMOEOPATHY, n. A school of medicine midway between Allopathy and Christian Science. To the last both the others are distinctly inferior, for Christian Science will cure imaginary diseases, and they can not. Votes: 0

This 'flying saucer' situation is not at all imaginary or seeing too much in some natural phenomena. Something is really flying around. The phenomenon is something real and not visionary or fictitious. Votes: 0

I spent my entire Irish Catholic youth in a constant state of guilt over imaginary sins. I learned that nothing is a sin as long as you don't take pleasure from it. Votes: 0

Either God can do nothing to stop catastrophes like this, or he doesn't care to, or he doesn't exist. God is either impotent, evil, or imaginary. Take your pick, and choose wisely. Votes: 0

Actually, Keke is my nickname. When I was little, my sister was about four years old, and she had an imaginary friend named Keke. And she wanted my name to be Keke. Votes: 0

It's so much easier to write for an actor than for an imaginary character and then try to fit that character to an actor. It doesn't work very often in my experience. Votes: 0

I cannot conceive why people will always mix up my own character and opinions with those of the imaginary beings which, as a poet, I have the right and liberty to draw. Votes: 0

I didn't realize then that so much of being adult is reconciling ourselves with the awkwardness and strangeness of our own feelings. Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience Votes: 0

Maniacal suicide. —This is due to hallucinations or delirious conceptions. The patient kills himself to escape from an imaginary danger or disgrace, or to obey a mysterious order from on high, etc. Votes: 0

Let me be clear. Last I was aware you were neither my husband nor my father nor my King. Therefore, any control you may imagine you hold over me is just that- imaginary Votes: 0

I like capturing stuff that is disappearing - that's the point of photography. What I am photographing is an imaginary place that never existed, but is connected to something that has already been. Votes: 0

Bubba was the one person who wouldn't even bat an eyelash that Nick was talking to an "imaginary" friend. Heck, he'd probably bring one of his own out to play, too. ~Nick Votes: 0

As a friend of mine, herself a writer, says, 'People who spend the most meaningful hours of their lives in the exclusive company of imaginary people are apt to be a little strange' Votes: 0

I think that in the colonial imaginary of the average Mexican, in how it drives us, the economic dependence on the US, and in some cases cultural dependence, is quite palpable, very strong. Votes: 0

homesickness is just a state of mind for me. i'm always missing someone or someplace or something, i'm always trying to get back to some imaginary somewhere. my life has been one long longing. Votes: 0

A person incapable of imaging another world than given to him by his senses would be subhuman, and a person who identifies his imaginary world with the world of sensory fact has become insane. Votes: 0

Adam and Eve are like imaginary numbers, like the square root of minus one... If you include it in your equation, you can calculate all manners of things, which cannot be imagined without it. Votes: 0

When with care we have raised an imaginary treasure of happiness, we find at last that the materials of the structure are frail and perishing, and the foundation itself is laid in the sand. Votes: 0

What I really do is take real plums and put them in an imaginary cake. If you're interested in the cake, you get rather annoyed with people saying what species the real plum was. Votes: 0

In times of war or crisis, power is easily stolen from the many by the few on a promise of security. The more elusive the or imaginary the foe, the better for manufacturing consent. Votes: 0

Every day there comes a moment when a person lays his hands in his lap and all his busyness collapses like ashes. The work accomplished is, from the soul's point of view, entirely imaginary. Votes: 0

Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as having a general historical value, which is the Odyssey. Votes: 0

One of the advantages of having an imaginary boyfriend is that he exists only for you, therefore he can not be stolen. The disadvantage is that you can not introduce him to your friends. Votes: 0

Have within you an imaginary candle flame that burns brightly regardless of what goes before you. Let this inner flame represent for you the idea that you're capable of manifesting miracles in your life. Votes: 0

Sometimes I'm stressed and I'm sick of things and I need to forget about them for a while, so in Harry Potter you're taken to this wonderful imaginary world where everything is so different. Votes: 0

I had to learn to do stuff only for myself, and stop thinking about pleasing some imaginary client or boss. It's a habit that many artists get into that have worked in commercial ventures. Votes: 0

Only in imaginary experience (in the folk tale, for example), which neutralizes the sense of social realities, does the social world take the form of a universe of possibles equally possible for any possible subject. Votes: 0

and he imagines carsand rides them in his dreams,so lonely growing up amongthe imaginary automobilesand dead souls of Tarrytownto createout of his own imaginationthe beauty of his wildforebears - a mythology he cannot inherit. Votes: 0

[Alternate translation:] The Divine Spirit found a sublime outlet in that wonder of analysis, that portent of the ideal world, that amphibian between being and not-being, which we call the imaginary root of negative unity. Votes: 0

I am glad to have found a readership, but one can't write only what is likely to sell. A writer is not a shopkeeper. A writer creates an imaginary world that he transmits to others. Votes: 0

America's great talent, I think, is to generate desires that would never have occurred, natively,... and to make those desires so painfully real that money becomes a fiction, an imaginary means to some concrete end. Votes: 0

Using the device of an imaginary world allows me in some strange way to go to the central issues - it's one of many ways to express feelings about real people, about real human relationships. Votes: 0

Human misery is so appalling nowadays that if we allowed ourselves to dwell on it we should only add imaginary miseries of our own to the real miseries of others without doing them any good. Votes: 0

When a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains of this world disappear. For as long as the story goes on, reality no longer exists. Votes: 0

The surgeons' market is imaginary, since there is nothing wrong with women's faces or bodies that social change won't cure; so the surgeons depend for their income on warping female self-perception and multiplying female self-hatred. Votes: 0