Neither the true nor the false roots are always real; sometimes they are imaginary; that is, while we can always imagine as… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
Boundary, n. In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I do not mind having imaginary conversations with animals who are part of my life. The comfort of talking to one at… — Derek Tangye Copy Share Image
The word 'pure' has never revealed an intelligent meaning to me. I can only use the word to quench an optical thirst… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How can you see something that isn't there?" yawned the Humbug, who wasn't fully awake yet. "Sometimes, it's much simpler than seeing… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
There’s a lot I don’t tell my father when he calls asking after Amy. He wouldn’t understand that she has no interest… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Revolutionary feminism embraces men who are able to change, who are capable of responding mutually in a subject-to-subject encounter where desire and… — Bell Hooks 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
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
Pride is the utter poverty of soul disguised as riches, imaginary light where in fact there is darkness. — John Climacus Copy Share Image
Man is a wretch without woman; but woman is a monster-and thank Heaven, an almost impossible and hitherto imaginary monster--without man, as… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I decided if I couldn't be a writer, my life would be miserable. I had this imaginary room of references to all… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
Who I am finally, if not the long silent part of someone, the secret and nocturnal part which has never betrayed itself… — Anne Desclos Copy Share Image
I've written a detective series myself, set in an imaginary, and slightly futuristic, Chinese city. The novels have an extremely tenuous relationship… — Liz Williams 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
What I really do is take real plums and put them in an imaginary cake. — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Avarice, the spur of industry, is so obstinate a passion, and works its way through so many real dangers and difficulties, that… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Does religion fill a much needed gap? It is often said that there is a God-shaped gap in the brain which needs… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
To travel is very useful, it makes the imagination work, the rest is just delusion and pain. Our journey is entirely imaginary,… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
To lovers, I devise their imaginary world, with whatever they may need, as the stars of the sky, the red, red roses… — Williston Fish Copy Share Image
Some things can be both real and imaginary at the same time, . . . some lies can be true, . . . broken faith may be restored. — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
Imaginary evils soon become real ones by indulging our reflections on them; as he who in a melancholy fancy sees something like… — Jonathan Swift 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
