Figments Quotes - Page 3

• Vincent van Gogh's mother painted all of his best things. The famous mailed decapitated ear was a figment of the public relations firm engaged by Van Gogh's dealer.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Mother, Ears, Public Relations

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• Some fools in the desert with nothing to do...invented me, and they invented you. And other fools keep it all going and growing. Everybody, we're a figment of their imagination.

  Randy Newman

  Imagination, Desert, Growing

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• There is no such thing as separation of church and state. It is merely a figment of the imagination of infidels.

  W. A. Criswell

  Imagination, Church, Separation

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• "What is my job on the planet?" is one question we might do well to ask ourselves over and over again. Otherwise, we may wind up doing somebody else's job and not even know it. And what's more, that somebody else might be a figment of our own imagination, and maybe a prisoner of it as well.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Jobs, Wind, Imagination

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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• Abortion is not an issue with the American people. It is a figment of your imagination if you think that this is an issue that is talked about a lot.

  Dan Quayle

  Thinking, Issues, People

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• Then there's the silliest of all cliches, 'on a pace for' 'Pace' is a figment of the mathematician's imagination.

  Leonard Koppett

  Imagination, Pace, Cliche

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• There were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. But he still says so. There was no link between Saddam Hussein and al Qaida. But he still says so. And thus, gripping firmly these figments of his own imagination, Mr. Cheney lives on, in defiance, and spreads - around him and before him - darkness, like some contagion of fear. They are never wrong, and they never regret - admirable in a French torch singer, cataclysmic in an American leader.

  Keith Olbermann

  Regret, Iraq, Mass Destruction

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• The wonders of the music of the future will be of a higher & wider scale and will introduce many sounds that the human ear is now incapable of hearing. Among these new sounds will be the glorious music of angelic chorales. As men hear these they will cease to consider Angels as figments of their imagination.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Inspiration, Angel, Men

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• It is a great profession. There is the fascination of watching a figment of the imagination emerge through the aid of science to a plan on paper. Then it moves to realization in stone or metal or energy. Then it brings jobs and homes to men. Then it elevates the standards of living and adds to the comforts of life. That is the engineer's high privilege.

  Herbert Hoover

  Jobs, Moving, Home

  Herbert Hoover (1951). “The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover: Years of adventure, 1874-1920”

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