A court of heraldry sprung up to supply the place of crusade exploits, to grant imaginary shields and trophies to families that… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Not till the poets among us can be "literalists of the imagination"-above insolence and triviality and can present for inspection, "imaginary gardens… — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
A totalitarian state is in effect a theocracy, and its ruling caste, in order to keep its position, has to be thought… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I remember the special quiet of rainy days when I felt that I could enter the pages of my beautiful picture books.… — Jan Brett Copy Share Image
For me, pressure is self-imposed, and it's good for me. The best actors are the most prepared because it's all imaginary and… — Miles Teller Copy Share Image
At some point I believe one has to stop holding back for fear of alienating some imaginary reader or real relative or… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Sitting in the darkness of the cinema, I got to see another world. This imaginary world was a refuge for many of… — Mano Khalil Copy Share Image
We actors do this to pretend, to go into imaginary circumstances, so when the imaginary circumstance is of a different time, that… — Tim DeKay Copy Share Image
Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable. — Theodore Newton Vail Copy Share Image
I had refused to pay any attention to the moral laws upon which all our vitality and sanity depend: and so now… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I think that in the colonial imaginary of the average Mexican, in how it drives us, the economic dependence on the US,… — Bocafloja Copy Share Image
Every day there comes a moment when a person lays his hands in his lap and all his busyness collapses like ashes.… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
I think I've always been drawn to the second person. When I was growing up and playing with my friends, the usual… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
With fiction, you are creating an imaginary world. And it can be a very mechanical process. In a fictional film, you create… — Mano Khalil Copy Share Image
One minute you're closer to someone than anyone in the whole world, next minute they need only to say the words 'time… — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
There's a level of realism you can only achieve through the imaginary. — Fumito Ueda Copy Share Image
I think that when we start thought-policing people and idea-policing people, then that's crossing a line. And I think, you know, everybody's… — Ashton Kutcher Copy Share Image
A vague uncritical idealism always lends itself to ridicule and too much of it might be a danger to mankind, leading it… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
It’s strange how dreams get under your skin and give your heart a test for what’s real and what’s imaginary. — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
I laughed and pointed out that "Hash Browns Mean Nothing Without You" was a pretty good name for a band. "Or a… — John Green Copy Share Image
The cell phone has transformed public places into giant phone-a-thons in which callers exist within narcissistic cocoons of private conversations. Like faxes,… — Mary Schmich Copy Share Image
Children, I mean, think of your own childhood, how important the bedtime story was. How important these imaginary experiences were for you.… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Pi is not merely the ubiquitous factor in high school geometry problems; it is stitched across the whole tapestry of mathematics, not… — Robert Kanigel Copy Share Image