Imaginary Quotes - Page 23

• How few are our real wants! and how easy is it to satisfy them! Our imaginary ones are boundless and insatiable.

  Augustus William Hare

  Real, Want, Easy

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1861). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed”, p.477

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• To lovers, I devise their imaginary world, with whatever they may need, as the stars of the sky, the red, red roses by the wall, the snow of the hawthorn, the sweet strains of music, and aught else they may desire to figure to each other the lastingness and beauty of their love.

  Williston Fish

  Love, Sweet, Stars

  "A Last Will," Harper'sWeekly, 3 Sept. 1898

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• In our true blissful essence of mind is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever...listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world, and you will remember the lesson you forgot, It is all one vast awakened thing. We were never really born, we will never really die. It has nothing to do with the imaginary idea of a personal self, other selves, many selves everywhere: Self is only an idea, a mortal idea. That which passes into everything is one thing. It's a dream already ended.

  Jack Kerouac

  Dream, Essence, Ideas

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• For my part I love sleepy fellows, and the more ignorant the better. Damn your wide-awake and knowing chaps. As for sleepiness, itis one of the noblest qualities of humanity. There is something sociable about it, too. Think of those sensible & sociable millions of good fellows all taking a good long friendly snooze together, under the sod--no quarrels, no imaginary grievances, no envies, heart-burnings, & thinking how much better that other chap is off--none of this: but all equally free-&-easy, they sleep away & reel off their nine knots an hour, in perfect amity.

  Herman Melville

  Death, Heart, Sleep

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• People really want to believe that there is no fiction. I think they find it much easier to imagine that novelists are writing memoirs, writing about their lives, because it's difficult to conceive that there's a great imaginary life in which you can participate.

  Mark Leyner

  Believe, Writing, Thinking

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• Ninety percent of the time, I'm wearing imaginary people's clothing. I don't feel a huge pressure to go out and like, hit the town, hit the boutiques.

  Lucas Neff

  People, Pressure, Towns

  "Raising Hope's Lucas Neff on starting stand-up and how his show apes The Simpsons". Interview with Erik Adams, www.avclub.com. February 5, 2013.

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• With this imaginary mandate from God, men have not allowed women to be given the educational, religous and social freedoms that are necessary for women to free themselves and become all that they are capable of being.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Educational, Enlightenment

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• When I talk about the realm of spirit, happiness, nirvana, enlightenment, I'm not talking about something ideal or imaginary. There are realms of light that exist, that have always existed and will always exist. They're much more solid than the transient perceived reality that you're currently experiencing

  Frederick Lenz

  Reality, Light, Talking

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• 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.

  Cornelius Lanczos

  Community, Musical, Satisfaction

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• Our basic civil liberties are in jeopardy, but we're going to be spending our time as a society arguing about whether or not schoolchildren should be forced to pay tribute to imaginary invisible beings who live in magical kingdoms in outer space some

  Tom Tomorrow

  Space, Liberty, Kingdoms

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

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Real, Ancestry, Birth

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• Our real nature is not our imaginary, limited ego. Our true nature is vast, all-comprehensive, and intangible as empty space.

  Anagarika Govinda

  Real, Space, Ego

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• The word 'pure' has never revealed an intelligent meaning to me. I can only use the word to quench an optical thirst for purity in the transparencies that evoke it - in bubbles, in a volume of water, and in the imaginary latitudes entrenched, beyond reach, at the very center of a dense crystal.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Intelligent, Water, Use

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

  Franklin P. Adams

  Writing, Character, Fiction

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Complete knowledge of the nature of an analytic function must also include insight into its behavior for imaginary values of the arguments. Often the latter is indispensable even for a proper appreciation of the behavior of the function for real arguments. It is therefore essential that the original determination of the function concept be broadened to a domain of magnitudes which includes both the real and the imaginary quantities, on an equal footing, under the single designation complex numbers.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Appreciation, Determination, Real

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• To be crazy is not necessarily to writhe in snake pits or converse with imaginary gods. It can sometimes be not knowing what to do in the morning.

  Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

  Morning, Crazy, Snakes

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• Just remember, loss is imaginary. Nothing ever disappears in the universe; it only changes form. If there is something that still wounds you, it's because of the meaning that you have linked to it. Maybe what you need to do is to have faith and say, 'Even though I don't know why this has happened, I am willing to trust. Someday, when the time is right, I will understand.'

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Loss, Have Faith

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• What the Negro wants - and will not stop until he gets - is absolute and unqualified freedom and equality here in this land of his birth, and not in Africa or in some imaginary state. The Negro no longer will be tolerant of anything less than his due right and heritage. He is pursuing only that which he knows is honorably his. He knows that he is right.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Land, Unqualified, Heritage

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• Neither the true nor the false roots are always real; sometimes they are imaginary; that is, while we can always imagine as many roots for each equation as I have assigned, yet there is not always a definite quantity corresponding to each root we have imagined.

  Rene Descartes

  Real, Roots, Ontology

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• What I really do is take real plums and put them in an imaginary cake. If you're interested in the cake, you get rather annoyed with people saying what species the real plum was.

  Mary McCarthy

  Real, Cake, People

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• An imaginary perfection is automatically at the same level as I who imagine it neither higher nor lower.

  Simone Weil

  Perfection, Levels, Imagine

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.99, Psychology Press

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• In creating the strange milieu in which your story takes place, you must first understand as well as you possibly can the familiar milieu in which your own life is taking place. Until you have examined and comprehended the world around you, you can't possibly create a complex and believable imaginary world.

  Orson Scott Card

  Creating, Stories, World

  Orson Scott Card (2001). “How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy”, p.61, Writer's Digest Books

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• Lonely children often have imaginary playmates but I was never lonely; rather, I was solitary, and wanted no company at all other than books and movies, and my own imagination.

  Gore Vidal

  Lonely, Children, Book

  Gore Vidal (1994). “Screening History”

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• Human misery is so appalling nowadays that if we allowed ourselves to dwell on it we should only add imaginary miseries of our own to the real miseries of others without doing them any good.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Real, Add, Misery

  George Bernard Shaw (1988). “Collected letters: 1926-1950”, Vintage

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• The best vacation is still a book, a renewable ticket to places real and imaginary.

  Charles McGrath

  Real, Book, Vacation

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