Imaginary Quotes
524 quotes by 424 authors
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Pi is not merely the ubiquitous factor in high school geometry problems; it is stitched across the whole tapestry of mathematics, not just geometry's little…
— Robert Kanigel
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Those who do not have imaginary conversations do not love.
— Josephine Hart
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Never, in all my early childhood, did anyone address to me the affecting preamble: 'Once upon a time!' ... I can but think that my…
— Edmund Gosse
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Writing Part of the Scenery has been a very different experience. I have been reminded of people and events, real and imaginary which have been…
— Mary Wesley
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I looked at Mum and realized -- twang! -- that she was telling an untruth. A big untruth. And I remember thinking in that instant…
— Christopher Buckley
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The poet Marianne Moore famously wrote of 'real toads in imaginary gardens,' and the labyrinth offers us the possibility of being real creatures in symbolic…
— Rebecca Solnit
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It's true that writing is a solitary occupation, but you would be surprised at how much companionship a group of imaginary characters can offer once…
— Anne Tyler
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What I really do is take real plums and put them in an imaginary cake.
— Mary McCarthy
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I'm not interested in an imaginary world
— Edward Bond
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So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The…
— Edward Dahlberg
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Who I am finally, if not the long silent part of someone, the secret and nocturnal part which has never betrayed itself in public by…
— Anne Desclos
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I say the same of humility and of all the virtues; the wiles of the devil are terrible, he will run a thousand times round…
— Teresa of Avila
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Many times people come to me to be reassured. They ask, they say, 'I'm feeling very happy and blissful. What do you say?' What is…
— Rajneesh
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The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth. Liberty is not…
— H. L. Mencken
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Eden, paradise - all the best gardens are imaginary.
— Amy Waldman
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All fear is imaginary, reality is its antidote.
— Andre Comte-Sponville
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I am in the utmost perplexity, yand have wished a hundred times, that if there is a A God, nature would manifest him without ambiguity,…
— Blaise Pascal
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Atreyu comes from a land called Fantasia. It's an imaginary land.
— Noah Hathaway
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One day one of my little nephews came up to me and asked me if the equator was a real line that went around the…
— Jack Handey
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Whenever I need to "get away", I just get away in my mind. I go to my imaginary spot, where the beach is perfect and…
— Jack Handey
Who Wrote These Imaginary Quotes
424 authors contributed a total of 524 Imaginary Quotes, led by these top contributors: