Imaginary Quotes

524 quotes by 420 authors

More than any other contemporary British playwright, Tom Stoppard populates his plays -- from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead to The Invention of Love (his… — Mel Gussow
The best vacation is still a book, a renewable ticket to places real and imaginary. — Charles McGrath
Human misery is so appalling nowadays that if we allowed ourselves to dwell on it we should only add imaginary miseries of our own to… — George Bernard Shaw
Lonely children often have imaginary playmates but I was never lonely; rather, I was solitary, and wanted no company at all other than books and… — Gore Vidal
The only excuse for a novelist, aside from the entertainment and vicarious living his books give the people who read them, is as a sort… — John Dos Passos
I think sometimes I get carried away, like I'm speaking to an imaginary audience rather than just trying to figure something out for myself. Ideally,… — David Byrne
I think the written word is my first love. I was just a very imagination - centered child and a big part of that imaginary… — Zoe Kazan
This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it… — Neil Gaiman
You reduce illegal immigration by making it harder to get jobs here, or easier to get jobs south of the border. This idea that we… — Gail Collins
The first-born in every family is always dreaming for an imaginary older brother or sister who will look out for them. — Bill Cosby
The Bristol Channel was always my guide, and I was always able to draw an imaginary line from my bed to our house over in… — Roald Dahl
Growing up as a chubby kid with a ton of imaginary friends and a Cyndi Lauper obsession, I learned about rejection early on and was… — Beth Ditto
It is a queer thing, but imaginary troubles are harder to bear than actual ones. — Dorothy Dix
Imaginary evils are incurable. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that… — Umberto Eco
Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real. — Federico Fellini
I think I've always been drawn to the second person. When I was growing up and playing with my friends, the usual way we interacted… — Mohsin Hamid
If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I'd have fewer imaginary ones. — Don Herold
Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist. — E. W. Howe
Don't wallow in brainstorming. Time spent fiddling with a business plan or filling up whiteboards with ideas is time that you could spend actually launching… — Naveen Jain

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