Imaginary Quotes - Page 20

• I didn't have an imaginary friend, and even if I did I'm sure it would have been derivative of something I saw on television. Optimus Prime maybe?

  Dan Santat

  Television, Saws, Derivatives

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• The fetters imposed on liberty at home have ever been forged out of the weapons provided for defense against real, pretended, or imaginary dangers from abroad.

  James Madison

  Real, War, Home

  James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.49, University of Virginia Press

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• As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.

  Karl Marx

  Life, Real, Party

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1975). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: collected works”

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• A minority is only thought of as a minority when it constitutes some kind of threat to the majority, real or imaginary. And no threat is ever quite imaginary.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Real, Majority, Minorities

  Christopher Isherwood, Don Bachardy, James P. White (1989). “Where Joy Resides: An Isherwood Reader”, Vintage

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• Like all mystics (and many novelists, not least the present one) he is baffled, a child, before the real now; far happier out of it, in a narrative past or a prophetic future, locked inside that weird tence grammar does not allow, the imaginary present.

  John Fowles

  Children, Real, Writing

  John Fowles (1985). “A Maggot”, Jonathan Cape

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• PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Perfection, Excellence, Quality

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.161, 谷月社

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

  Rita Rudner

  Funny, Humor, Kids

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• This 'flying saucer' situation is not at all imaginary or seeing too much in some natural phenomena. Something is really flying around. The phenomenon is something real and not visionary or fictitious.

  Nathan Farragut Twining

  Real, Flying, Visionaries

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• The author: an imaginary person who writes real books.

  Edward Abbey

  Real, Book, Writing

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.37, RosettaBooks

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• I think the written word is my first love. I was just a very imagination - centered child and a big part of that imaginary life came from reading.

  Zoe Kazan

  Children, Reading, First Love

  Source: collider.com

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

  Brian Posehn

  School, Bully, Nerd

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• Today's imaginary band name: The Significan't.

  Janina Gavankar

  Names, Band, Today

  FaceBook post by Janina Gavankar from Sep 29, 2013

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• [Cindy Sherman's] photographs reverse the terms of art and autobiography. They use art not to reveal the artist's true self but to show the self as an imaginary construct. There is no real Cindy Sherman in these photographs; there are only the guises she assumes. And she does not create these guises; she simply chooses them in the way that any of us do.

  Douglas Crimp

  Art, Real, Self

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• Childhood has been idealised as a lost garden paradise to which we can never return. We are excluded from this world of carelessness, innocence and unity. But the imaginary kingdom is nothing more than a projection of adult ideas and concerns onto the image, an expression of our own yearnings. By photographing children alone, divorced from any social setting, I allow them to exist on their own...I am exploring the equivocal connection between self and world.

  Loretta Lux

  Children, Garden, Self

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• Divisions are imaginary lines drawn by small minds.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Mind, Division, Lines

  Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1969). “Self-realization Magazine”

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• An interlude of false innocence has passed. Today, as we enter the post-photographic era, we must face once again the ineradicable fragility of our ontological distinctions between the imaginary and the real, and the tragic elusiveness of the Cartesian dream. We have indeed learnt to fix the shadows, but not to secure their meanings or to stabilize their truth values; they still flicker on the walls of Plato's cave.

  William J. Mitchell

  Dream, Wall, Plato

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• [W]e must stop trying to protect our planet from every imaginable, exaggerated or imaginary risk. And we must stop trying to protect it on the backs, and the graves, of he nation's and world's most powerless and impoverished people.

  Niger Innis

  People, Risk, Trying

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• A white leftist Mexican activist isn't the same in the media as the son of a farmer in Guerrero, they aren't worth the same. In the same imaginary of the Latin American Left exists a racism, a racism that corresponds to processes of colonialism internal to almost all countries in Latin America.

  Bocafloja

  Country, Latin, Son

  "Decolonial Rap". Interview with Andrew Smolski, www.counterpunch.org. May 15, 2015.

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• I think that in the colonial imaginary of the average Mexican, in how it drives us, the economic dependence on the US, and in some cases cultural dependence, is quite palpable, very strong.

  Bocafloja

  Strong, Thinking, Average

  "Decolonial Rap". Interview with Andrew Smolski, www.counterpunch.org. May 15, 2015.

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• Now every idiot from high school's like, 'I'm back!' We weren't supposed to meet again. Stop poking me and inviting me to your weird vampire parties. No, I don't want to follow you on Twatter. Like, nobody's interested in you. I don't want to see you in real life, why would I want to follow you in the imaginary one?

  Amy Schumer

  Real, Party, School

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• The Great Recession is not imaginary, and the effects loom large. There was an article in the NYT about the galloping death rate among white men in middle age. Higher than among any other demographic, etc. Mostly death by drugs, alcohol, or suicide. Many of them rural. My feeling is that it's many people who haven't been able to get back into the work force. Reg Morse is an example of the problem.

  Rick Moody

  Suicide, Men, White

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think sometimes I get carried away, like I'm speaking to an imaginary audience rather than just trying to figure something out for myself. Ideally, I try to balance that - that I'm asking these questions of myself, how does this work, why does this happen, what's going on here.

  David Byrne

  Thinking, Balance, Trying

  Interview with Chris Dahlen, pitchfork.com. July 17, 2006.

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• The only excuse for a novelist, aside from the entertainment and vicarious living his books give the people who read them, is as a sort of second-class historian of the age he lives in. The "reality" he missed by writing about imaginary people, he gains by being able to build a reality more nearly out of his own factual experience than a plain historian or biographer can.

  John Dos Passos

  Book, Writing, Reality

  John Dos Passos (1988). “John Dos Passos: the major nonfictional prose”

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• In the early 1940s, as a young teenager, I was utterly appalled by the racist and jingoist hysteria of the anti-Japanese propaganda. The Germans were evil, but treated with some respect: They were, after all, blond Aryan types, just like our imaginary self-image. Japanese were mere vermin, to be crushed like ants.

  Noam Chomsky

  Teenager, Hysteria, Self

  "Noam Chomsky: Truth to power". Interview with David McNeill, chomsky.info. February 22, 2014.

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• Loss is imaginary. Nothing ever disappears in the universe; it only changes form.

  Tony Robbins

  Loss, Disappear, Form

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.476, Simon and Schuster

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