Imaginary Quotes - Page 6

• Eden, paradise - all the best gardens are imaginary.

  Amy Waldman

  Garden, Eden, Paradise

  "The Submission". Book by Amy Waldman, August 16, 2011.

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• I am in the utmost perplexity, yand have wished a hundred times, that if there is a A God, nature would manifest him without ambiguity, and that if there is not, every imaginary sign of his existence might vanish : in short, let nature speak distinctly, or be totally silent, and I shall know what course to take.

  Blaise Pascal

  Nature, Might, Speak

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• Atreyu comes from a land called Fantasia. It's an imaginary land.

  Noah Hathaway

  Land, Fantasia

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• Listening to Britons dining out is like watching people play first-class tennis with imaginary balls.

  Margaret Halsey

  Class, Play, People

  Margaret Halsey (1938). “With Malice Toward Some”

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• John McEnroe looks as if he is serving round the edge of an imaginary building.

  Clive James

  Tennis, Looks, Building

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• All the theories that acting is reacting to imaginary circumstances as though they are real, and directing is turning psychology into behavior, those are all stabs at something that can't be taught. All the great actors can't talk about what they do, and they don't want to begin to talk about it. They just do it.

  Mike Nichols

  Real, Psychology, Theatre

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• There is no real evil in life, except great pain; all the rest is imaginary, and depends on the light in which we view things

  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

  Pain, Real, Light

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• Our business here is to be Utopian, to make vivid and credible, if we can, first this facet and then that, of an imaginary whole and happy world.

  H. G. Wells

  World, Vivid, Firsts

  H. G. Wells (2016). “A Modern Utopia”, p.23, H. G. Wells

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• I was like, what the hell is my life coming to? I'm a trained actor! I've done Shakespeare and here I am having farting contests with an imaginary dog!

  Matthew Lillard

  Funny, Dog, Here I Am

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• I like capturing stuff that is disappearing - that’s the point of photography. What I am photographing is an imaginary place that never existed, but is connected to something that has already been.

  Tim Walker

  Photography, Stuff, Disappear

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• Men should continue to fight, but they should fight for things worth while, not for imaginary geographical lines, racial prejudices and private greed draped in the color's of patriotism.

  Albert Einstein

  Spiritual, Fighting, Men

  Albert Einstein (1933). “The fight against war”

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• Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Real, Believe, Order

  Jean Baudrillard (2001). “Selected Writings”, p.175, Stanford University Press

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• Novels set in imaginary futures are necessarily about the moment in which they are written.

  William Gibson

  Moments, Novel, Written

  "William Gibson: beyond cyberspace" by Thomas Jones, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2011.

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• It is certain that success naturally confirms in us a favourable opinion of our own abilities. Scarce any man is willing to allot to accident, friendship, and a thousand causes, which concur in every event without human contrivance or interposition, the part which they may justly claim in his advancement. We rate ourselves by our fortune rather than our virtues, and exorbitant claims are quickly produced by imaginary merit.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Events, May

  Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.68

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• Art is ruled uniquely by the imagination. Images are it's only wealth. It does not classify objects, it does not pronounce them real or imaginary, does not qualify them does not define them; it feels and presents them.

  Benedetto Croce

  Art, Real, Imagination

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• In Western-style Communism we would have to create an almost imaginary workers' image of themselves as the father-figure.

  John Lennon

  Father, Style, Communism

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I can relate to historical characters or imaginary ones. It doesn't matter if a story takes place in the future or in the present, as long as the story is compelling.

  Eric Stoltz

  Character, Long, Historical

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• Heaven and Hell are imaginary creation of ignorant minds.

  Gautama Buddha

  Heaven, Ignorant, Mind

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• What will a Hillary Clinton presidency look like? The answer by now seems obvious: It will look like her presidential campaign, which in turn looks increasingly like the first Clinton presidency. Which is to say, high-minded ideals, lowered execution, half truths, outright lies (and imaginary flights), take-no prisoners politics, some very good policy ideas, a presidential spouse given to wallowing in anger and self-pity, and a succession of aides and surrogates pushed under the bus when things don't go right. Which is to say, often.

  Carl Bernstein

  Lying, Self, Ideas

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• When my head is in the typewriter the last thing on my mind is some imaginary reader. I don't have an audience; I have a set of standards.

  Don DeLillo

  Typewriters, Mind, Lasts

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• It's a mystical quality of music, that music isn't really concrete, and it's communicating abstractions about imaginary worlds. At least, my music's like that. It's not real. It's unreal, it's all fabrication. To write a song about Obama would suddenly break the spell.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Song, Real, Writing

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I was very moved to see that the name of the boat was Hamlet - an imaginary character becomes so important to people, we think about them so much that we name a ship after them. The imaginary lives on in the real.

  Paul Auster

  Real, Character, Thinking

  "A Connoisseur of Clouds, a Meteorologist of Whims: The Rumpus Interview with Paul Auster". Interview with Juliet Linderman, therumpus.net. November 16, 2009.

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• I was really drawn to thinking about the women in my life. Thinking about my mother, who's a very powerful force on me. And I have these two very strong sisters who took up a lot of imaginary space in my life.

  Junot Diaz

  Mother, Strong, Powerful

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. March 8, 2008.

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• To me genres were always an imaginary things, they're just marketing channels.

  Michael Gungor

  Marketing, Genre, Imaginary Things

  Source: mousertime.blogspot.com

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• I'm extremely moved by the loving, caring relationship the President always seems to have with his imaginary son.

  Dennis Miller

  Son, Caring, President

  Twitter post from Jan 19, 2014

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