I became to myself an imaginary figure of great excellence, daring and glamor. — Rudolph Valentino Copy Share Image
“Living and ceasing to live are imaginary solutions; existence is elsewhere.” — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
I make up stories about people who are either imaginary or some variation of myself. — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
The distinction between what is real and what is imaginary is not one that can be finely maintained ... all existing thing… — Gregg Braden Copy Share Image
She was a little given to rehearsing things in her mind, and having imaginary triumphs over people who had upset her in… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
The lad who dreams of being a boxing champion or an admiral chooses reality. If the writer chooses the imaginary, he confuses… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Until you have examined and comprehended the world around you, you can't possibly create a complex and believable imaginary world.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
It's true that writing is a solitary occupation, but you would be surprised at how much companionship a group of imaginary characters… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
Abandon fancy theologies and imaginary ideas and do some ordinary daily work... {Engage in this work with} unswerving kindness and unending patience. — Laozi Copy Share Image
“The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are imaginary.” — Franklin P. Adams Copy Share Image
Imaginary pains are by far the most real we suffer, since we feel a constant need for them and invent them because… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
I had the idea that there were two worlds. There was a real world as I called it, a world of wars… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
As a child, I felt that Hallowe'en was a time when creatures of the night suddenly came to life - we would… — Pippa Middleton Copy Share Image
James's expedition to Scotland is wholly imaginary, though there appears to have been space for it during Henry's progress to the North… — Charlotte Mary Yonge Copy Share Image
...there was cement in her soul. It had been there for a while, an early morning disease of fatigue, shapeless desires, brief… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
I had an incredibly full life with my imagination: I used to have all sorts of trolls and things; I had a… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
In the final analysis, a drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no matter how self-sufficient its execution may be. It is… — Paul Klee 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
The imaginary expression √(-a) and the negative expression -b, have this resemblance, that either of them occurring as the solution of a… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
The artist is a collector of things imaginary or real. He accumulates things with the same enthusiasm that a little boy stuffs… — Paul Rand Copy Share Image
Love is very important in The First Man, in that [Albert] Camus loves these things he never chose, he loves his childhood… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
Rebellion against technology and civilization is real rebellion, a real attack on the values of the existing system. But the green anarchists,… — Theodore Kaczynski Copy Share Image
Many of them [people who escaped religion] recounted both the terror and the relief they felt after leaving religion behind. Terror at… — Darrel Ray Copy Share Image
Once you realize that the world is your own projection, you are free of it. You need not free yourself of a… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj 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
If you understand writing as primarily engaging an imaginary reader, well, you've kind of been doing that your whole life. You walk… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I tend to be a loner I think a lot of social theorists are like that. On one level, the majority… — George Ritzer Copy Share Image
He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is a queer thing, but imaginary troubles are harder to bear than actual ones. — Dorothy Dix Copy Share Image
Today we often use deadlines—real and imaginary—to imprison ourselves. — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image