Imaginary Quotes - Page 21

• The blood weeps from my heart when I do shape,
  In forms imaginary, th' unguided days
  And rotten times that you shall look upon
  When I am sleeping with my ancestors.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Sleep, Blood

  William Shakespeare (2016). “King Henry IV Part 2: Third Series”, p.363, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I had a very close relationship with another kid when I was growing up. I was his imaginary friend.

  Emo Philips

  Growing Up, Kids, Imaginary Friend

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• Why all these signs around us that make me doubt language and submerge me in meanings, drowning reality instead of extracting it from the imaginary?

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Reality, Doubt, Language

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• ...after a certain quantity, photos apparently taken by chance, postcards chosen according to a passing mood, begin to trace an itinerary, to map the imaginary country that stretches out before us.

  Chris Marker

  Country, Taken, Maps

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• All you have is the writer's imagination. You have a very limited time to take this imaginary person and bring the details of their life, as you perceive them, to life. You attempt to do to that as fully and as vibrantly as you can. It's depressing to read how much you've failed. And it's not even particularly instructive or necessary to read how you succeeded because in the end don't you have to judge that?

  John Malkovich

  Depressing, Imagination, Judging

  "New Again: John Malkovich". Interview with Becky Johnston, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 10, 2015.

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• The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.

  Vernon Howard

  People, Suffering, World

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• I had to learn to do stuff only for myself, and stop thinking about pleasing some imaginary client or boss. It's a habit that many artists get into that have worked in commercial ventures.

  Wayne White

  Artist, Thinking, Boss

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• The incurable ills are the imaginary ills.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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• I think if there were to be a solution to the problem of free will, it would have to be a compatibilist one. Unfortunately, from that it does not follow that there is such a solution. Many philosophers find this an unwelcome message, and as often happens in philosophy, they punish the messenger by ascribing to him an entirely imaginary but untenable position.

  Allen W. Wood

  Philosophy, Thinking, Doe

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Often we're having an argument with something imaginary - a fixed idea of the "enemy" and the good. We need to get beyond that and actually develop a deep curiosity about people and systems and understand them better.

  Duncan Green

  Ideas, People, Curiosity

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Love is very important in The First Man, in that [Albert] Camus loves these things he never chose, he loves his childhood experience in a very real way. Their poverty meant that there was nothing else they could think about but what they would eat, how they would clothe themselves. There's just no room for other things in his family. It's difficult for others to imagine the position in which he found himself. There is no imaginary existence in their lives.

  Catherine Camus

  Real, Love Is, Men

  Source: www.spikemagazine.com

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• 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.

  Kobe Bryant

  Basketball, Dad, Love You

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I didn't want to give the white reader an opportunity to think of racism as imaginary - a sentiment that is already a central barrier in addressing the problem.

  Vivek Shraya

  Opportunity, Thinking, White

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When did it become necessary to explain what's so cool about Japan? Everyone was quite obsessed with it 15 years ago. I suppose it's the only Asian country that developed an imaginary entree to me. That's why I go back.

  William Gibson

  Country, Japan, Years

  Source: craphound.com

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• On the spectrum of imagination, there are people who are more imaginative than others - I guess some kids are hardcore pretenders and have imaginary friends for years and other kids play and they have fun, but it's not quite as specific like that.

  Bryce Dallas Howard

  Fun, Kids, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The lad who dreams of being a boxing champion or an admiral chooses reality. If the writer chooses the imaginary, he confuses the two.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Dream, Reality, Two

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• The satisfaction of short fiction does not come close to the rich pleasure I get as a writer in the long deep immersion in the same long work and its growing complexity. I suppose you might say I love to wallow in my characters and imaginary worlds. I love to play with the whole necklace, not just one glittering stone.

  Vera Nazarian

  Character, Play, Long

  Source: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com

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• My dad read The Hobbit to me originally when I was young. So, it was the first imaginary landscape I ever had in my head from the written word. It gave me a passion for reading, thanks to my dad's performance of the book.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Dad, Book, Reading

  'The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug' Interview with Kam Williams, pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

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• 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.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Girl, Brother, Writing

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• 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

  Writing, Sitting, Desks

  Brad Meltzer (2013). “The Fifth Assassin: The Culper Ring Trilogy 2”, p.10, Hachette UK

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• 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

  Girl, Wish, Select

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• San Francisco leads the world in the category of Most People On The Sidewalk Holding Conversations With Purely Imaginary Companions.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Travel, San Francisco

  Twitter post from Jun 12, 2009

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• 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

  Conjecture, Enterprise, Contact

  Hannes Alfvén, Gustaf Arrhenius (1976). “Evolution of the Solar System”

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• 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 things about the real world.

  Terry Brooks

  Real, Other Worlds, Want

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• I started to make a joke that I had an imaginary friend underneath the let-out couch named Binky. I would never talk to him; I would only use him as entertainment for other people. I knew they thought that children had imaginary friends, so I was like, "I don't really believe in imaginary friends, but I want to feel like I do." I used to make a joke, "My imaginary friend Binky says this," because I knew it would get a laugh out of them.

  Keke Palmer

  Children, Believe, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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