Imaginary Quotes - page 3

When I was a kid, I had two friends, and they were imaginary and they would only play with each other. (Rita Rudner)
I don't get that -- people going to war over religion. I don't know, I could see going to war over justice or democracy or even revenge. But if you're going to war over religion, now you're just killing people in an argument over who has the better imaginary friend. View quote
Richard Jeni
The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction. View quote
Helen Keller
And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one. View quote
Virginia Woolf
What are the hallmarks of a competent writer of fiction? The first, it seems to me, is that he should be immensely interested in human beings, and have an eye sharp enough to see into them, and a hand clever enough to draw them as they are. The second is that he should be able to set them in imaginary situations which display the contents of their psyches effectively, and so carry his reader swiftly and pleasantly from point to point of what is called a good story. View quote
H. L. Mencken
The highfalutin aims of democracy, whether real or imaginary, are always assumed to be identical with its achievements. This, of course, is sheer hallucination. Not one of those aims, not even the aim of giving every adult a vote, has been realized. It has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. View quote
H. L. Mencken
... imaginary things were often the only items of real substance in people's lives. View quote
Brandon Sanderson
That this subject [of imaginary magnitudes] has hitherto been considered from the wrong point of view and surrounded by a mysterious obscurity, is to be attributed largely to an ill-adapted notation. If for instance, +1, -1, √-1 had been called direct, inverse, and lateral units, instead of positive, negative, and imaginary (or even impossible) such an obscurity would have been out of question. View quote
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Understand then all of you, especially the young, that to want to impose an imaginary state of government on others by violence is not only a vulgar superstition, but even a criminal work. Understand that this work, far from assuring the well-being of humanity is only a lie, a more or less unconscious hypocrisy, camouflaging the lowest passions we posses. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real. View quote
Federico Fellini
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 why I have not put in, or have cut out, practically all references to anything like 'religion', to cults or practices, in the imaginary world. For the religious element is absorbed into the story and the symbolism. (J. R. R. Tolkien)
Girls are apt to imagine noble and enchanting and totally imaginary figures in their own minds; they have fanciful extravagant ideas about men, and sentiment, and life; and then they innocently endow somebody or other with all the perfections for their daydreams, and put their trust in him. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon. View quote
Ann Patchett
if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones. View quote
Norton Juster
I don't write fantasy; I write historical novels about an imaginary place. View quote
Raymond E. Feist
It's a map of a non-existent coast under an imaginary constellation on an impossible sky in-” he grunted, twisting something-"the middle of a ring of meaningless numbers. That's why it's powerful. That's why it's magic. View quote
Samuel R. Delany
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 of the world. Seriously. They've always been with me. While other girls played with dolls, and my brothers with Hot Wheels, I was busy traveling through space or traipsing through graveyards with my imaginary playmates. View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Certainly, no studio is going to put its money and its muscle behind something that they don't think they can spin five or six movies out of and build a whole kind of imaginary universe from anymore, I think. View quote
Dave Itzkoff
Men suck, even imaginary ones. View quote
James Patterson
It is a queer thing, but imaginary troubles are harder to bear than actual ones. View quote
Dorothy Dix
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)
Haven't you noticed that we women daydream infinitely less than you men? We can't anticipate pleasure in our imagination or keep suffering out our lives with some imaginary consolation.Whatever is,is.Imagintion! It's so paltry!Yes,when you've grown older,as I have,you occasionally make do with the poor comedy of the imagination. View quote
Jens Peter Jacobsen
I like to create imaginary characters and events around a real historical situation. I want readers to feel: OK, this probably didn't happen, but it might have. View quote
Ken Follett
Josh speculated about the hypothetical contents of an imaginary porn magazine for intelligent trees that would be entitled Enthouse. View quote
Lev Grossman
Some things can be both real and imaginary at the same time,... some lies can be true,... broken faith may be restored. View quote
Joanne Harris