Imaginary Quotes

524 quotes by 424 authors

The proposition of an established classification of states as slave states and free states, as insisted on by some, and into northern and southern, as… — William H. Seward
People really want to believe that there is no fiction. I think they find it much easier to imagine that novelists are writing memoirs, writing… — Mark Leyner
Neither the true nor the false roots are always real; sometimes they are imaginary; that is, while we can always imagine as many roots for… — Rene Descartes
Ninety percent of the time, I'm wearing imaginary people's clothing. I don't feel a huge pressure to go out and, like, hit the town, hit… — Lucas Neff
Complete knowledge of the nature of an analytic function must also include insight into its behavior for imaginary values of the arguments. Often the latter… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
[Alternate translation:] The Divine Spirit found a sublime outlet in that wonder of analysis, that portent of the ideal world, that amphibian between being and… — Gottfried Leibniz
I never really did abandon my true self. It's not like I invented this imaginary person and started to be her. — Amy Lee
I still think most writers are just kids who refuse to grow up. We're still playing imaginary games, with our imaginary friends. — Ian Rankin
Some of the secret joys of living are not found by rushing from point A to point B, but by inventing some imaginary letters along… — Douglas Pagels
How few are our real wants! and how easy is it to satisfy them! Our imaginary ones are boundless and insatiable. — Augustus William Hare
You ride astride the imaginary in order to hunt down the real. — Breyten Breytenbach
The knowledge that mankind needs is not the way or principle which has an absolute existence, but the particular truths for here and now and… — Hu Shih
Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite… — Nicholson Baker
People who have realized that this is a dream imagine that it is easy to wake up, and are angry with those who continue sleeping,… — Alexander Herzen
Of all the planets apart from Earth in our solar system, Mars is the most hospitable. Yeah. Right. Better keep my visit short. And yet,… — Greg Bear
I want you, as a reader, to experience what I experience, to let that other world, that imaginary world that I have created, tell you… — Terry Brooks
We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture. — Hannes Alfven
San Francisco leads the world in the category of Most People On The Sidewalk Holding Conversations With Purely Imaginary Companions. — Dave Barry
Haven't got a girl, but I can wish. So I'll take me down to Main Street and that's where I'll select my imaginary dish. — Dean Martin
Here's what I love: I love sitting at my desk, staring at the blank screen, and beginning that conversation with my imaginary friends. — Brad Meltzer

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