Imaginary Quotes - Page 25

• Life in a small town is like an intricately plotted novel, and even though I had read every book in the public library by the time I was fourteen, I found the real people around me saying and doing far more interesting things than did the imaginary book characters.

  Maxine Cheshire

  Real, Book, Character

  Maxine Cheshire, John Greenya (1979). “Maxine Cheshire, reporter”, Dell Publishing Company

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• I've always had a really active imagination. Lots of kids have imaginary friends. Mine just took on a rather demonic form.

  Claire Danes

  Kids, Imagination, Form

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• There is no wrong suffering. There is imaginary, sham, feigned, simulated, pretended suffering. But the assertion that someone suffers for the right or wrong reason presupposes a divine, all-penetrating judgment able to distinguish historically obsolete forms of suffering from those in our time, instead of leaving this decision to the sufferers themselves.

  Dorothee Solle

  Decision, Leaving, Suffering

  Dorothee Sölle (1975). “Suffering”, Fortress Press

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• Maybe that's all that family really is, a group of people who all miss the same imaginary place.

  Zach Braff

  People, Missing, Groups

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• As a child I did a lot of imaginary bits, you know. It depends on the individual, I enjoyed then knocking the nail in, I enjoy knocking nails in walls to hang pictures up, but I also enjoy thinking 'I'm gonna do that' but I actually won't do it, I enjoy imagining doing things just as much.

  John Lennon

  Children, Wall, Thinking

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• If we listen to our self-love, we shall estimate our lot less by what it is than by what it is not; shall dwell upon its hindrances and be blind to its possibilities; and, comparing it only with imaginary lives, shall indulge in flattering dreams of what we should do if we had but power, and give if we had but wealth, and be if we had no temptations.

  James Martineau

  Dream, Self, Indulge In

  James Martineau (1905). “Tides of the Spirit: Selections from the Writings of James Martineau”

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• Honor's a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.

  Joseph Addison

  Real, Men, Honor

  Joseph Addison (1761). “Preface. Poems on several occasions. Rosamond. An essay on Virgil's Georgics. Cato. The drummer, or, The haunted house. Poemata. Dialogues upon the usefulness of ancient medals”, p.307

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• Writing is a consciousness formally at work in the territory of the imaginary.

  Nicole Brossard

  Writing, Territory, Consciousness

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• I have laid the stick that connects people together. Now it is up to you, your generation and the generations to come, to build upon that stick a bridge that will ensure the free sharing of information and teaching between the two peoples until the day we become united again as a single people, as we were once before; before men separated us with their imaginary political boundaries of today's Polynesia and Micronesia.

  Mau Piailug

  Teaching, Men, Two

  "Piailug's greatest lesson is that we are a single people". "Honolulu Star-Advertiser" Newspaper, July 29, 2010.

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• I was lucky, I had support from Mum and Dad - they said as long as you work hard, anything is possible. I never thought past those two things - that I liked living in imaginary worlds and that it is possible to do that for a living.

  Harry Treadaway

  Dad, Hard Work, Past

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

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• It is not right to associate the fight against international terrorist networks with an imaginary crusade against Islam.

  Omar Bongo

  Fighting, Islam, Crusades

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• I think I've always been drawn to the second person. When I was growing up and playing with my friends, the usual way we interacted with imaginary worlds was as characters: a bench was 'your' boat, leaves on a lawn were the fins of sharks out to get 'you.'

  Mohsin Hamid

  Growing Up, Character, Thinking

  Mohsin Hamid (2015). “Discontent and its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London”, p.61, Penguin

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• My music has to do with imaginary things, so I took that concept and used the whole "the music is not the truth" mantra as a way to market myself.

  Mister Lies

  Music Is

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.

  Federico Fellini

  Real, Lines, Bad Word

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• Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that happened because of an imaginary tale.

  Umberto Eco

  America, Australia, Captains

  "Signs of the times". Interview with Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2002.

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• I wasn't a very outgoing child. I read a lot of books and the characters in each of the books became like imaginary friends - I immersed myself in the different worlds. I always hated finishing books that I really loved for that reason.

  A Fine Frenzy

  Children, Book, Character

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• If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I'd have fewer imaginary ones.

  Don Herold

  Worry, Trouble, Fewer

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• Don’t wallow in brainstorming. Time spent fiddling with a business plan or filling up whiteboards with ideas is time that you could spend actually launching your business and seeing if the idea floats. Launching gives you real, solid feedback, instead of the imaginary “what if” scenarios dreamed up in a conference room.

  Naveen Jain

  Real, Filling Up, Ideas

  "Dear Entrepreneur: Stop Dreaming And Launch That Business" by Naveen Jain, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2011.

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• In the final analysis, a drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no matter how self-sufficient its execution may be. It is a symbol, and the more profoundly the imaginary lines of projection meet higher dimensions, the better.

  Paul Klee

  Self, Drawing, Finals

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.183, Univ of California Press

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• I think that when we start thought-policing people and idea-policing people, then that's crossing a line. And I think, you know, everybody's so afraid of this imaginary line of thought police that they forget their own personal safety.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Thinking, Ideas, People

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• Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as having a general historical value, which is the Odyssey.

  Raymond Queneau

  Character, Historical Value, Fiction

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• As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure.

  Susan Sontag

  Insecure, Past, Space

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.10, Macmillan

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• It is a queer thing, but imaginary troubles are harder to bear than actual ones.

  Dorothy Dix

  Bears, Trouble, Harder

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• homesickness is just a state of mind for me. i'm always missing someone or someplace or something, i'm always trying to get back to some imaginary somewhere. my life has been one long longing.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Missing Someone, Always Trying, Long

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.82, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, Writing, Interest

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