Imaginary Quotes

524 quotes by 424 authors

Like all mystics (and many novelists, not least the present one) he is baffled, a child, before the real now; far happier out of it,… — John Fowles
PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic. — Ambrose Bierce
When I was a kid, I had two friends, and they were imaginary and they would only play with each other. — Rita Rudner
This 'flying saucer' situation is not at all imaginary or seeing too much in some natural phenomena. Something is really flying around. The phenomenon is… — Nathan Farragut Twining
I regard almost all quarrels of princes on the same footing, and I see nothing that marks man's unreason so positively as war. Indeed, what… — Mary Wortley Montagu
My imaginary friends have become my imaginary children. — Chris Colfer
How I was brought up and my imaginary friend means more to me than anything you can ever say or do. — Penn Jillette
The distinction between what is real and what is imaginary is not one that can be finely maintained ... all existing thing are ... imaginary. — Gregg Braden
Iâ€™ve learned the most from Randy Harrison. Because of his fantastic imaginary world filled with bizarre friends. He is constantly giving us good advice. — Gale Harold
One might think this means that imaginary numbers are just a mathematical game having nothing to do with the real world. From the viewpoint of… — Stephen Hawking
The imaginary world has always been the most fun place for me to be. — Claire Forlani
Anything that you have imposed on yourself to be unhappy, to be bound, is a concept. It is an imaginary concept, so give it away. — H. W. L. Poonja
Each of us is incomplete compared to someone else - an animal's incomplete compared to a person... and a person compared to God, who is… — Georges Bataille
First of all, Buddhism is neither pessimistic nor optimistic. If anything at all, it is realistic, for it takes a realistic view of life and… — Walpola Rahula
I adore imaginary monsters, but I am terrified of real ones. — Teju Cole
Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real. — David Antin
The author: an imaginary person who writes real books. — Edward Abbey
The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision. That is… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Middle-earth is our world. I have (of course) placed the action in a purely imaginary (though not wholly impossible) period of antiquity, in which the… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Don't be an actor. Be a human being who works off what exists under imaginary circumstances. — Sanford Meisner

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