“The imaginary enemy is more dangerous than the real enemy, because when the real enemy is in front of you, the imaginary… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
In the early 1940s, as a young teenager, I was utterly appalled by the racist and jingoist hysteria of the anti-Japanese propaganda.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Writing is a job, a talent, but it’s also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you… — Ann Patchett Truth and Beauty Copy Share Image
Writers spend too much time among dead things. I thought that was profound and actually true, that you're trying to pump life… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth... It takes a special… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
See, when you lie to me it hurts," Rixon said, swiping an imaginary tear. "I thought we had something special. I thought… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
They offer, if we are wise enough or simple enough to take it, a model for what it means to give your… — Marjorie Garber Copy Share Image
All writers are insecure, the male ones especially. It's well known. Why else would they spend so much time on make-believe? They're… — Philip Sington Copy Share Image
More than any other contemporary British playwright, Tom Stoppard populates his plays -- from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead to The Invention… — Mel Gussow Copy Share Image
Childhood has been idealised as a lost garden paradise to which we can never return. We are excluded from this world of… — Loretta Lux Copy Share Image
I've been trying to fit everything in, trying to get to the end before it's too late, but I see now how… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
For any artistic person who creates imaginary people, the art is like inhabiting the life and mind of a seven-year-old child with… — Bob Shacochis Copy Share Image
I looked at Mum and realized -- twang! -- that she was telling an untruth. A big untruth. And I remember thinking… — Christopher Buckley Copy Share Image
Does the evolutionary doctrine clash with religious faith? It does not. It is a blunder to mistake the Holy Scriptures for elementary… — Theodosius Dobzhansky Copy Share Image
The mother-women seemed to prevail that summer at Grand Isle. It was easy to know them, fluttering about with extended, protecting wings… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
I am not talking to you from the point of view of just wishful thinking, or imaginary craziness. I'm talking to you… — Fred Alan Wolf Copy Share Image
“So, without saying anything to the others, it made its way to the farthest corner of the meadow and began to toast… — Thomas M. Disch Copy Share Image
I regard almost all quarrels of princes on the same footing, and I see nothing that marks man's unreason so positively as… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
When I was a kid I had an imaginary friend and I used to think that he went everywhere with me, and… — Jimmy Carr Copy Share Image
I came to the idea of how fine it would be to think of an encyclopedia of an actual world, and then… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Initially I probably didn't even call it acting, but dressing up or something. As a kid I think you fully imagine the… — Hugo Weaving Copy Share Image
I never had an imaginary friend, just imaginary circumstances. I was so into the Indiana Jones movies, and I would constantly reenact… — Pedro Pascal Copy Share Image
I was always fascinated with the idea that an imaginary friend was the perfect friend that a child created, and I wanted… — Dan Santat Copy Share Image
SpongeBob is a good role model as far as imaginary creatures go. He works hard and his emotional highs are very high,… — Tom Kenny Copy Share Image
That raises a terrible question. How is it that people who are quite obviously eaten up with Pride can say they believe… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I took my first acting class at age 6 because I found out that's what Carol Burnett was doing - acting. Also… — Christine Lakin Copy Share Image
If I had had to write only about imaginary people, I would have had to close up my typewriter. I wrote about… — William Maxwell Copy Share Image
I realized I couldn't be a journalist because I like to take a side, to have an opinion and a point a… — Annie Leibovitz 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
As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does,… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our being; we desire to live an imaginary… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“I am, as it were, the created creating—a paradox, for all its rhetorical trappings, at the beating heart of our shared human… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
I had often joked in my speeches that I had imaginary conversations with Mrs. Roosevelt to solicit her advice on a range… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
This 'flying saucer' situation is not at all imaginary or seeing too much in some natural phenomena. Something is really flying around.… — Nathan Farragut Twining Copy Share Image
I had a strong propensity, which I still have, to be invisible. In grade school, I'd try to disappear and become formless.… — Amanda Plummer Copy Share Image
This food-and-shelter theory concerning man's efforts is without insight. Our most persistent and spectacular efforts are concerned not with the preservation of… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Who's to say what's better or worse anyway? Who's to even say what's normal or average? We're all different people and we're… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
I have a funny mental framework when I do physics. I create an imaginary audience in my head to explain things to… — Leonard Susskind Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'm stressed and I'm sick of things and I need to forget about them for a while, so in Harry Potter… — Evanna Lynch Copy Share Image
