Mathematicians enjoy thinking about the simplest possible things, and the simplest possible things are imaginary. — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
I take the outline from a real person as inspiration, but the in-line is totally made up. Which is why I usually… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
Anything that you have imposed on yourself to be unhappy, to be bound, is a concept. It is an imaginary concept, so… — H. W. L. Poonja Copy Share Image
Evil, as evil, can never be chosen; and though evil is often the effect of our own choice, yet we never desire… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
No doubt the world is entirely an imaginary world, but it is only once removed from the true world. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the… — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
I never really did abandon my true self. It's not like I invented this imaginary person and started to be her. — Amy Lee Copy Share Image
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… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
It's my fond hope that social networks such as Facebook will help users broaden their perspectives by listening to a different set… — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share Image
Poverty is, except where there is an actual want of food and raiment, a thing much more imaginary than real. The shame… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
A great novelist excels on the small scale and the large, the individual leaf and root as well as the forest; good… — Laura Miller Copy Share Image
Many times people come to me to be reassured. They ask, they say, 'I'm feeling very happy and blissful. What do you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
In all the houses keys to memorizing objects and feelings had been written. But the system demanded so much vigilance and moral… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Prejudice is the conjuror of imaginary wrongs, strangling truth, over-powering reason, making strong people weak, and weak people weaker. God gave us… — John Ross Macduff Copy Share Image
Most thoughtful people would agree that morality in the absence of policing is somehow more truly moral than the kind of false… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Whoa, whoa, whoa," I said, not being able to stop myself. "What's the i?" "The i is an imaginary number," he said,… — Chris Colfer Copy Share Image
Rebecca Mead's My Life in Middlemarch is a wise, humane, and delightful study of what some regard as the best novel in… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
I like how time goes on set. It's almost like time on an airplane or something where people are together. It's a… — Jeff Goldblum Copy Share Image
False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire… — Cesare Beccaria Copy Share Image
At best, the relationship between drama critic and playwright is a pretty twiggy affair. When I'm asked whom I write for, after… — Lanford Wilson Copy Share Image
Nazi Literature in the Americas, a wicked invented encyclopedia of imaginary fascist writers and literary tastemakers, is Bolaño playing with sharp, twisting… — Stacey D'Erasmo Copy Share Image
We are not to look upon our sins as insignificant trifles. On the other hand, we are not to regard them as… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Exceptions to the traditions of dumpy dignity and fake learnedness in law review writing are as rare as they are beautiful. Once… — Fred Rodell Copy Share Image
If we betake ourselves to the statistical method, we do so confessing that we are unable to follow the details of each… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
I feel like everyone I meet is an imaginary friend. I don't know. The older I get the more I wonder what's… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
In Washington, you have imaginary problems, and they can't even solve the imaginary problems. — Eric Garcetti Copy Share Image
I am not responsible for actions of the imaginary version of me you have inside your head. — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
“Ego means to live in an imaginary form (illusionary form) outside of one’s own real Self.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable. — Theodore Newton Vail Copy Share Image
Sleep deprivation made his life an imaginary thing, his days a ribbon floating aimlessly in water." - Whelk — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
The irruption of the supernatural into our world is a much more enticing notion to explore than the same thing happening in… — Elizabeth Hand Copy Share Image
The greatest burden in the world is superstition, not only of ceremonies in the church, but of imaginary and scarecrow sins at… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The novel is a meditation on existence as seen through the medium of imaginary characters. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
When my head is in the typewriter the last thing on my mind is some imaginary reader. I don't have an audience;… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Many of our threats are imaginary. The habits and even obsessions that we develop to keep them away are destructive and undermine… — Liz Miller Copy Share Image
The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character without presuming to display them as real… — Franz Liszt Copy Share Image
You're brave. You are the bravest person I know, and you are my friend. I don't care if you are imaginary. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Don't ever let anyone tell you that the imaginary is equivalent to the real: your skin, your vast breathing skin, will insist… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
“If you divide something that is essentially one, you will end up with imaginary infinite numbers.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
