Imaginary Quotes

524 Imaginary quotes by 412 unique authors

[Alternate translation:] The Divine Spirit found a sublime outlet in that wonder of analysis, that portent of the ideal world, that amphibian between being and… — Gottfried Leibniz
I never really did abandon my true self. It's not like I invented this imaginary person and started to be her. — Amy Lee
I still think most writers are just kids who refuse to grow up. We're still playing imaginary games, with our imaginary friends. — Ian Rankin
Some of the secret joys of living are not found by rushing from point A to point B, but by inventing some imaginary letters along… — Douglas Pagels
How few are our real wants! and how easy is it to satisfy them! Our imaginary ones are boundless and insatiable. — Augustus William Hare
You ride astride the imaginary in order to hunt down the real. — Breyten Breytenbach
The knowledge that mankind needs is not the way or principle which has an absolute existence, but the particular truths for here and now and… — Hu Shih
Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite… — Nicholson Baker
People who have realized that this is a dream imagine that it is easy to wake up, and are angry with those who continue sleeping,… — Alexander Herzen
Of all the planets apart from Earth in our solar system, Mars is the most hospitable. Yeah. Right. Better keep my visit short. And yet,… — Greg Bear
I want you, as a reader, to experience what I experience, to let that other world, that imaginary world that I have created, tell you… — Terry Brooks
We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture. — Hannes Alfven
San Francisco leads the world in the category of Most People On The Sidewalk Holding Conversations With Purely Imaginary Companions. — Dave Barry
Haven't got a girl, but I can wish. So I'll take me down to Main Street and that's where I'll select my imaginary dish. — Dean Martin
Here's what I love: I love sitting at my desk, staring at the blank screen, and beginning that conversation with my imaginary friends. — Brad Meltzer
I write simply because I hear voices of people in my head who won't give me peace until I convey their stories to the rest… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
My books have been translated into various languages and sold in other countries, but I never have any contact with the foreign publishers and am… — Sara Zarr
When you get down to the bottom of it, only about half of what we remember really happened. We tend to modify things to make… — David Eddings
All the literati keep at least one imaginary friend. — Joseph Brodsky
Books are like brothers. I am an only child. Gatsby [is] my imaginary eldest brother. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
That special bond you think you have with your pet is imaginary. As long as it has food and water, you could get hit by… — Scott Dikkers
To be crazy is not necessarily to writhe in snake pits or converse with imaginary gods. It can sometimes be not knowing what to do… — Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
To lovers, I devise their imaginary world, with whatever they may need, as the stars of the sky, the red, red roses by the wall,… — Williston Fish
Imaginary testing is unreliable, and in many cases, it's a huge waste of time and energy. In truth you just don't know what will happen… — Steve Pavlina
PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic. The editor of… — Ambrose Bierce

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