Imaginary Quotes

524 quotes by 412 authors

The surgeons' market is imaginary, since there is nothing wrong with women's faces or bodies that social change won't cure; so the surgeons depend for… — Naomi Wolf
Needless to say, the business of living interferes with the solitude so needed for any work of the imagination. Here's what Virginia Woolf said in… — Virginia Woolf
See, when you lie to me it hurts," Rixon said, swiping an imaginary tear. "I thought we had something special. I thought our joint eternal… — Becca Fitzpatrick
History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness. — James F. Cooper
The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth. — H. L. Mencken
I laughed and pointed out that "Hash Browns Mean Nothing Without You" was a pretty good name for a band. "Or a song," the Duke… — John Green
Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run. — George Bernard Shaw
And every place and time an author writes about is imaginary, from Oz to Raymond Chandler's L.A. to Dickens's London. — Connie Willis
This is an IMAGINARY STORY...aren't they all? — Alan Moore
The real world is much smaller than the imaginary — Friedrich Nietzsche
Even in a personal sense, after all, art is an intensified life. By art one is more deeply satisfied and more rapidly used up. It… — Thomas Mann
If conversion to Christianity makes no improvement in a man's outward actions â€“ if he continues to be just a snobbish or spiteful or envious… — C.S. Lewis
The consolation of imaginary things is not imaginary consolation. — Roger Scruton
Ramona stepped back into her closet, slid the door shut, pressed an imaginary button, and when her imaginary elevator had made its imaginary descent, stepped… — Beverly Cleary
Who's to say what's better or worse anyway? Who's to even say what's normal or average? We're all different people and we're allowed to be… — Ellen DeGeneres
Maniacal suicide. â€”This is due to hallucinations or delirious conceptions. The patient kills himself to escape from an imaginary danger or disgrace, or to obey… — Emile Durkheim
Why keep in touch with them? That's what I want to know,' asked Larry despairingly. 'What satisfaction does it give you? They're all either fossilized… — Gerald Durrell
I started writing because I decided I was too old to play pretend in the backyard. Then I found that I could create those imaginary… — Veronica Roth
Don't you ever touch my car again," Santangelo says with the same fury he had on his face when Jonah Griggs made comments about his… — Melina Marchetta
Have you seen a unicorn in the woods?" "I imagine that's next," Jared muttered. "Right," said Holly. "Well. If the unicorn is pink, about two… — Sarah Rees Brennan

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