Imaginary Quotes

What I really do is take real plums and put them in an imaginary cake.

The Krishna of the Gita is perfection and right knowledge personified, but the picture is imaginary.

Real evils can be either cured or endured; it is only imaginary evils that make people anxiety-ridden for a lifetime.

Where had I been that I didn't know about imaginary friends? I could see the point of it. How a lost part of yourself steps out and remind you who you could be with a little work.

The desire for imaginary benefits often involves the loss of present blessings.

Dear Basketball, From the moment I started rolling my dad's tube socks and shooting imaginary game-winning shots ... I fell in love with you.

Alternatives, and particularly desirable alternatives, grow only on imaginary trees.

Those who do not have imaginary conversations do not love.

Because imaginary time behaves like another direction in space, histories in imaginary time can be closed surfaces, like the surface of the Earth, with no [existential] beginning or end.

There is an imaginary circle drawn around every human being, over which no government should be able to step.

I still think most writers are just kids who refuse to grow up. We're still playing imaginary games, with our imaginary friends.

Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't.

It's a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.

The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth.

James's expedition to Scotland is wholly imaginary, though there appears to have been space for it during Henry's progress to the North to pay his devotions at Beverley Minster.

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 complete only to be imaginary.

When you write a novel, you make other people see your imaginary friends.

I’ve learned the most from Randy Harrison. Because of his fantastic imaginary world filled with bizarre friends. He is constantly giving us good advice.

The Bristol Channel was always my guide, and I was always able to draw an imaginary line from my bed to our house over in Wales. It was a great comfort.

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 strength.

I didn't realize then that so much of being adult is reconciling ourselves with the awkwardness and strangeness of our own feelings. Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience

The fairytale is irresponsible; it is frankly imaginary, and its purpose is to gratify wishes, as a dream doth flatter.

The greatest burden in the world is superstition, not only of ceremonies in the church, but of imaginary and scarecrow sins at home.

Stand firm in that which you are.

A relationship with an imaginary woman is preferable to a relationship with a real one.

My father would pass gas and then blame it on imaginary animals.

So far as my experience goes, travelers generally exaggerate the difficulties of the way. Like most evil, the difficulty is imaginary; for what's the hurry?

I should almost therefore put forward the proposal that the third hypothsis (angle sum of a triangle less than two right angles) holds on the surface of an imaginary sphere.

When real nobleness accompanies that imaginary one of birth, the imaginary seems to mix with real, and becomes real too.

I'm not talking to you from the point of view of wishful thinking or imaginary craziness. i'm talking to you from a deeper, basic understanding.

The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary.

We will not, therefore, lose our time praying to an imaginary god for things which our own exertions alone can procure.

Place, time, life, death, earth, heaven are divisions and distinctions we make, like the imaginary lines we trace upon the surface of the globe.

If I need a cause for celebration, Or a comfort I can use to ease my mind, I rely on my imagination, And I dream of an imaginary time.

Religious war at its simplest is killing each other over who has the best imaginary friend.

I was such a nerd in high school, I didn't even have imaginary friends, I had imaginary bullies.

Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.

There is this of good in real evils; they deliver us, while they last, from the petty despotism of all that were imaginary.

There is no allurement or enticement, actual or imaginary, which a well-disciplined mind may not surmount. The wish to resist more than half accomplishes the object.

We may learn from children how large a part of our grievances is imaginary. But the pain is just as real.

At some point I believe one has to stop holding back for fear of alienating some imaginary reader or real relative or friend, and come out with personal truth.

When I was a kid, I had two friends, and they were imaginary and they would only play with each other.

I never really did abandon my true self. It's not like I invented this imaginary person and started to be her.

The community of mathematicians is similar to an imaginary community of musical composers whose only satisfaction is obtained by the interchange among themselves of the musical scores they compose.

Gratitude: An imaginary emotion that rewards an imaginary behavior, altruism. Both imaginaries are false faces for selfishness, which is a real and honest emotion.

What is the heart? It is not human and it is not imaginary. I call it you.

When with care we have raised an imaginary treasure of happiness, we find at last that the materials of the structure are frail and perishing, and the foundation itself is laid in the sand.

MATERIAL, adj. Having an actual existence, as distinguished from an imaginary one. Important.

Acting is telling the truth under imaginary circumstances. I cannot think of a worse way to describe acting. Also, I'm the worst liar ever.

Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.