Imaginary Quotes

524 quotes by 424 authors

To travel is very useful, it makes the imagination work, the rest is just delusion and pain. Our journey is entirely imaginary, which is its… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Most persons are so absorbed in the contemplation of the outside world that they are wholly oblivious to what is passing on within themselves. The… — Nikola Tesla
Biking through New York's boroughs in 2005, I thought about some old friends, Joe and Eileen Bailey. Though they are imaginary, I frequently talk to… — Charles Schumer
Since most problems are created by our imagination and are thus imaginary, all we need are imaginary solutions. — Richard Bandler
Every day there comes a moment when a person lays his hands in his lap and all his busyness collapses like ashes. The work accomplished… — Robert Musil
I am glad to have found a readership, but one canâ€™t write only what is likely to sell. A writer is not a shopkeeper. A… — Tahar Ben Jelloun
After exponential quantities the circular functions, sine and cosine, should be considered because they arise when imaginary quantities are involved in the exponential. — Leonhard Euler
What is the function that a clergyman performs in the world? Answer: He gets his living by assuring idiots that he can save them from… — H. L. Mencken
Bop began with Jazz but one afternoon somewhere on a sidewalk maybe 1939, 1940, Dizzy Gillespie or Charlie Parker or Thelonious Monk was walking past… — Jack Kerouac
Real evils can be either cured or endured; it is only imaginary evils that make people anxiety-ridden for a lifetime. — Earl Nightingale
To say that a thing is imaginary is not to dispose of it in the realm of mind, for the imagination, or the image making… — Dion Fortune
When you strive for perfection, you compare different versions of what could be instead of being present with what is. Perfectionism is an attempt to… — Gary Zukav
Everything has a sort of double meaning for me, there's the ordinary everyday meaning of things, and the imaginary meaning about it all, and I… — Stanley Spencer
One thing is certain: for many of those who came back from WWII, the music of Frank Sinatra was no consolation for their losses. Some… — Pete Hamill
Under the imaginary table that separates me from my readers, donâ€™t we secretly clasp each otherâ€™s hands? — Bruno Schulz
A lot of the songs on the new album are about imaginary things, things that you can't touch - ghosts and rumors, my dead grandmother,… — Florence Welch
All a writer's characters are imaginary, no matter whether they are based on real people or not. They are people as one imagines them to… — Allan Massie
I am preoccupied with the possibility of creating art which functions in a public situation without compromising its private character of being antiheroic, antimonumental, antiabstract,… — Claes Oldenburg
I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so much a possession… — Laurence Housman
I don't believe that just because one person is born on one side of some imaginary line and another person is born on the other… — Ben Cohen

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