Imaginary Quotes - Page 8

• And I do pay a lot of attention to how things feel underneath my feet. It's a way of transporting yourself somewhere that you're trying to write about - closing your eyes and imagining what it feels like to literally be in that space. Maybe because of this weird aura thing I find it a bit easier to put my body in an imaginary space.

  Evie Wyld

  Writing, Eye, Trying

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Sitting in the darkness of the cinema, I got to see another world. This imaginary world was a refuge for many of us. Of course, the films were controlled and censored by the regime. But I still thought, around this time, that maybe making films would be good for me. I thought of expressing myself through this medium, and of doing something for the Kurds. The options were clear: either I'd work as a lawyer under the Baath regime or make movies independently.

  Mano Khalil

  Darkness, World, Lawyer

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I read a lot, I always read. I like to be inside a story. When I started acting, even in high school, it sort of felt like that's as close as you can get to being inside a book, and I feel that way even with movies more so, because you've kind of created this imaginary world, and everybody is colluding to create it.

  Julianne Moore

  Book, School, Acting

  Source: wwd.com

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• Jorge Luis Borges was lamenting a variety of Orientalism that was used to measure the alleged authenticity of Argentine and Latin American writers in the midcentury. The Argentine literary tradition was believed by many, including many Argentines, to be concerned with a national imaginary in which the gauchos and the pampas and the tango were fundamental tropes. Borges, in part to legitimize his own Europhilia, correctly pointed out that expecting writers to engage with these romantic nationalist tropes was arbitrary and limiting, a genre that was demonstrative of its own artificiality.

  Adam Morris

  Latin, Authenticity, Tradition

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I take the outline from a real person as inspiration, but the in-line is totally made up. Which is why I usually invent imaginary names.

  Dana Spiotta

  Real, Inspiration, Names

  "Dana Spiotta’s Age of Innocence". Interview with Jeff Vasishta, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 11, 2016.

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• Many painters had a clear idea of what fractals are. Take a French classic painter named Poussin. Now, he painted beautiful landscapes, completely artificial ones, imaginary landscapes. And how did he choose them? Well, he had the balance of trees, of lawns, of houses in the distance. He had a balance of small objects, big objects, big trees in front and his balance of objects at every scale is what gives to Poussin a special feeling.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Beautiful, Distance, Small Objects

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Back when I was very small, and we had this bathroom with these sort of paneled mirrors on the side. And I would just sit there - because it was the only warm room in the house. And I would - if I was in a bad place - I would go to my imaginary place with these mirrors, and create this entire other world to sort of help level out what I was dealing with.

  Sandra Bullock

  Mirrors, Other Worlds, House

  "An Election's High Stakes: Sandra Bullock On 'Our Brand Is Crisis'". www.wbur.org. October 31, 2015.

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• In my imaginary utopian world there would be a greater allegiance between music writers and musicians.

  Emily Haines

  Musician, Would Be, World

  "Taking Measurements: An Interview with Metric". Interview With Devon Powers, www.popmatters.com. October 12, 2004.

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• When I was a kid I loved to read, but I didn't write and I didn't create imaginary worlds. So, if one student walks away thinking, "She's obviously just an ordinary person, yet she gets to make her living doing what she wants to do. Maybe that applies to me, too," then I feel like my time has been well spent.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Writing, Kids, Thinking

  TeachingBooks.net Interview, www.teachingbooks.net. November 12, 2005.

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• In any case, the fear of subservience is quite imaginary.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Cases, Subservience

  Source: gandhiking.ning.com

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• The film from the beginning is not the real world; it's an imaginary world. And this imaginary world is both inside and outside the normal world.

  Lucile Hadzihalilovic

  Real, World, Normal

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I was always fascinated with the idea that an imaginary friend was the perfect friend that a child created, and I wanted to play with the idea of a role reversal where the imaginary friend is waiting to find that perfect someone but has doubts about whether that day would ever come.

  Dan Santat

  Children, Play, Ideas

  "Helping Students Make Friends". Interview with Brian Smith, www.scholastic.com. August 25, 2014.

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• 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.

  Dan Santat

  Television, Saws, Derivatives

  "Helping Students Make Friends". Interview with Brian Smith, www.scholastic.com. August 25, 2014.

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• I'm not an activist by nature. I am suspicious of Utopian thinking and equally suspicious of its alternate. I would prefer to stay in the Writing Burrow and play with my imaginary friends and enemies. I get sucked into these things.

  Margaret Atwood

  Writing, Thinking, Play

  "Unscripted: Margaret Atwood Interview". Interview With Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• In the past things were either in your head (subjective, imaginary, fantasy) or else they were part of the outside world - cold, hard, concrete materialistic reality. If you want to look at it in terms of poetry, there was surrealism and objectivism. Now there's the veil of the virtual in between. The old opposition between inner and outer doesn't quite capture it, especially as it contains elements of both. It's real but not concrete.

  Elaine Equi

  Real, Past, Looks

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Acting is telling the truth under imaginary circumstances. I cannot think of a worse way to describe acting. Also, I'm the worst liar ever.

  Emma Watson

  Liars, Thinking, Acting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• For me, pressure is self-imposed, and it's good for me. The best actors are the most prepared because it's all imaginary and you have to know the character inside out.

  Miles Teller

  Character

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Abandon fancy theologies and imaginary ideas and do some ordinary daily work... {Engage in this work with} unswerving kindness and unending patience.

  Laozi

  Kindness, Work, Ideas

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• Many pains are imaginary, but all joys are real.

  Mason Cooley

  Pain, Real, Joy

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• But in the prevalent discussion of classes, there are illegitimate transitions to the notions of a 'nexus' and of a 'proposition'. The appeal to a class to perform the services of a proper entity is exactly analogous to an appeal to an imaginary terrier to kill a real rat.
  Process and Reality

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Real, Class, Rats

  Alfred North Whitehead (2010). “Process and Reality”, p.228, Simon and Schuster

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• Although fear in the right dosage and under the right circumstance protects us ... imaginary fear offers straitjackets instead of lifejackets, nooses instead of safety nets.

  Gina Barreca

  Fear, Safety, Circumstances

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• It has frequently been said that we never desire what we think absolutely inapprehensible: it is however true that some of our sharpest agonies are those in which the object of desire is regarded as both possible and imaginary.

  T. S. Eliot

  Thinking, Agony, Desire

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• The historian must be a poet; not to find, but to find again; not to breathe life into beings, into imaginary deeds, but in order to re-animate and revive that which has been; to represent what time and space have placed at a distance from us.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Distance, Space, Order

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• Half the wrong conclusions at which mankind arrive are reached by the abuse of metaphors, and by mistaking general resemblance or imaginary similarity for real identity.

  Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

  Real, Abuse, Identity

  1839 Letter to Henry Bulwer,1 Sep.

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• So far as my experience goes, travelers generally exaggerate the difficulties of the way. Like most evil, the difficulty is imaginary; for what's the hurry?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Travel, Evil, Optimism

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.101, Penguin

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