There is an imaginary circle drawn around every human being, over which no government should be able to step. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Nonbelievers like myself stand beside you, dumbstruck by the Muslim hordes who chant death to whole nations of the living. But we… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“If you divide something that is essentially one, you will end up with imaginary infinite numbers.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
Real evils can be either cured or endured; it is only imaginary evils that make people anxiety-ridden for a lifetime. — Earl Nightingale 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 Copy Share Image
Proofs are the last thing looked for by a truly religious mind which feels the imaginary fitness of its faith. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I like to create imaginary characters and events around a real historical situation. I want readers to feel: OK, this probably didn't… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
homesickness is just a state of mind for me. i'm always missing someone or someplace or something, i'm always trying to get… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
To say that a thing is imaginary is not to dispose of it in the realm of mind, for the imagination, or… — Dion Fortune Copy Share Image
I fell even more deeply in love with Tolkien's legendarium after studying Old English literature at uni, as I got a sense… — Samantha Shannon Copy Share Image
There is this of good in real evils; they deliver us, while they last, from the petty despotism of all that were… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
People really want to believe that there is no fiction. I think they find it much easier to imagine that novelists are… — Mark Leyner 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
One might think this means that imaginary numbers are just a mathematical game having nothing to do with the real world. From… — Stephen Hawking 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
As a child, what I was missing was so much bigger to me than what I had. My mother-mythic, imaginary-was a deity… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Girls are apt to imagine noble and enchanting and totally imaginary figures in their own minds; they have fanciful extravagant ideas about… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Books are like brothers. I am an only child. Gatsby [is] my imaginary eldest brother. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I want to make a drug. I want the science to be more than imaginary, where I think, 'We're learning these fundamental… — Bonnie Bassler Copy Share Image
As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Most people experience history as one damn fact after another in high school. But if you can wonder, "Wow, what if the… — Gavriel David Rosenfeld Copy Share Image
It is the fate of most men who mingle with the world, and attain even the prime of life, to make many… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
We know the surrealist solution: concrete irrationality, objective risk. Poetry is the conquest, the only possible conquest, of the 'supreme position', 'a… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
We have inhabited both the actual and the imaginary realms for a long time. But we don't live in either place the… — Ursula K. Le Guin 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
