I was like, what the hell is my life coming to? I'm a trained actor! I've done Shakespeare and here I am… — Matthew Lillard Copy Share Image
MATERIAL, adj. Having an actual existence, as distinguished from an imaginary one. Important. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Talking to people makes me feel like sleeping. Only my ghostly and imaginary friends, only the conversations I have in my dreams,… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If conversion makes no improvements in a man's outward actions then I think his 'conversion' was largely imaginary. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
ARENA, n. In politics, an imaginary rat-pit in which the statesman wrestles with his record. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
We may learn from children how large a part of our grievances is imaginary. But the pain is just as real. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
“...meaning his stuffed bear who was as real to him as his mother or me. Or else as imaginary.” — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
... imaginary gardens with real toads in them ... ... if you demand on one hand, the raw material of poetry in… — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't. But you can't tell the difference when you have no real information. Fear can create… — Barbara Sher Copy Share Image
A white leftist Mexican activist isn't the same in the media as the son of a farmer in Guerrero, they aren't worth… — Bocafloja Copy Share Image
When a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains of this world… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Anyone who has set out to invent a purely imaginary story knows that the whole thing is fantasy, from beginning to end;… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet. Think about it carefully!… — Kabir 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
It is thus that the generality of mankind, whose lot is ignorance, attributes to the Divinity, not only the unusual effects which… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college,… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
Most of the arts, as painting, sculpture, and music, have emotional appeal to the general public. This is because these arts can… — Cornelius Lanczos Copy Share Image
What makes globalization even possible in the first place? One answer would be that it requires the regularization of some kind of… — McKenzie Wark Copy Share Image
Because we can't comprehend it, and that's what allows us to do it again. And it is the normal, it's the average… — Bob Geldof Copy Share Image
Complete knowledge of the nature of an analytic function must also include insight into its behavior for imaginary values of the arguments.… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
“We have all been fooled into believing in people who are entirely imaginary--made-up prisoners in a hypothetical panopticon. But the point isn't… — Robyn Schneider Copy Share Image
The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the… — David Antin Copy Share Image
A sanctity hangs about the sources of our being, whether physical, social, or imaginary. — George Santayana 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
I spent my entire Irish Catholic youth in a constant state of guilt over imaginary sins. I learned that nothing is a… — Terry Wogan Copy Share Image
In humility is the greatest freedom. As long as you have to defend the imaginary self that you think is important, you… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
What is the function that a clergyman performs in the world? Answer: He gets his living by assuring idiots that he can… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I’ve learned the most from Randy Harrison. Because of his fantastic imaginary world filled with bizarre friends. He is constantly giving us… — Gale Harold Copy Share Image
“In this manner , we are told, the system of the imaginary is spread circularly, by detours and returns the length of… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
You can not retain a true and clear vision of wealth if you are constantly turning your attention to opposing pictures, whether… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
I was such a nerd in high school, I didn't even have imaginary friends, I had imaginary bullies. — Brian Posehn Copy Share Image
Bubba was the one person who wouldn’t even bat an eyelash that Nick was talking to an “imaginary” friend. Heck, he’d probably… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
I was 21 years and 218 days old when I received the Academy Award for Best Actress. I had just stepped into… — Marlee Matlin Copy Share Image
I was a real daydreamer at school, gazing out of the window and losing myself in imaginary worlds. — Talulah Riley Copy Share Image
I am giddy, expectation whirls me round. The imaginary relish is so sweet That it enchants my sense. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A minority is only thought of as a minority when it constitutes some kind of threat to the majority, real or imaginary.… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
“But he’d found that imaginary things were often the only items of real substance in people’s lives.” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
