Imaginary Quotes

524 quotes by 412 authors

In the early 1940s, as a young teenager, I was utterly appalled by the racist and jingoist hysteria of the anti-Japanese propaganda. The Germans were… — Noam Chomsky
Anyone who has set out to invent a purely imaginary story knows that the whole thing is fantasy, from beginning to end; there must be… — Russell Smith
I make up stories about people who are either imaginary or some variation of myself. — Jami Attenberg
In fiction, imaginary people become realer to us than any named celebrity glimpsed in a series of rumored events, whose causes and subtler ramifications must… — John Updike
Children need stimulation and stability. That can come from grandparents, cousins, teachers, nannies, childcare centres - as long as they engage with the children and… — Tony Buzan
Wormholes are a gravitational phenomena. Or imaginary gravitational phenomena, as the case may be. — Jonathan Nolan
Instead of inventing imaginary friends, I invented whole imaginary worlds. They were elaborate scenarios about spies and adventurers and top secret missions. I crawled along… — Robin Wasserman
I have a funny mental framework when I do physics. I create an imaginary audience in my head to explain things to - it is… — Leonard Susskind
Blending consensus historical events and personages with imaginary occult forces is a strong recipe for counterfactual storytelling goodness that combines the best of two worlds:… — Paul Di Filippo
The future is, of course, imaginary - an unreal place that I create from my expectations, which are made from my remembered experiences, especially repeated… — Siri Hustvedt
I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake. — Mary McCarthy
Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys, and eagerly pursues imaginary joys. — Mark Akenside
But primitive man had enemies real as well as imaginary, and they were not subject to priestly sorceries. — Paul Harris
They are imaginary characters. But perhaps not solely the products of my imagination, since there are some aspects of the characters that relate to my… — Margaret Mahy
Adam and Eve are like imaginary numbers, like the square root of minus one... If you include it in your equation, you can calculate all… — Philip Pullman
These are facts, these are not imaginary things. — Iyad Allawi
One of the reasons I got into acting to begin with is that I was trying to figure out how life worked. It was interesting… — Michael Shannon
We actors do this to pretend, to go into imaginary circumstances, so when the imaginary circumstance is of a different time, that just compounds the… — Tim DeKay
The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist. — Unknown Author
It's queer how ready people always are with advice in any real or imaginary emergency, and no matter how many times experience has shown them… — Anne Sullivan

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