102 Imaginary Quotes for You to Enjoy

Real shapes and real patterns are things you would observe in nature, like the marks on the back of a cobra's hood or the markings on a fish or a lizard. Imaginary shapes are just that, symbols that come to a person in dreams or reveries and are charged with meaning. Jim Woodring

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them. John Ruskin

Become Our Evils Soon Indulging Real Reflections Them Imaginary

That's what's so great about my job. I get paid to do what got me in trouble in grade school space out and play with my imaginary friends. In terms of Isaac, when the time's right. Jonathan Kellerman

Wormholes are a gravitational phenomena. Or imaginary gravitational phenomena, as the case may be. Jonathan Nolan

Case May Gravitational Imaginary Phenomena

I still have imaginary friends who I talk to in my head. Lee Ryan

Head Talk Still Friends Who Imaginary

Certainly I was a very religious child, a deeply weird and very emotional child, an only child with lots of imaginary friends and a very active imagination. I loved Sunday school and Bible camp and all that. I had my own white Bible with Jesus' words printed in red in the text; I even spoke at youth revivals. Lee Smith

Bible Youth Words School Sunday Own White Active Imagination Sunday School Religious My Own Only Only Child Emotional Had Spoke Red Weird Printed Camp Text Lots Friends Very Child Loved Certainly Even Deeply Jesus Imaginary

I've written a detective series myself, set in an imaginary, and slightly futuristic, Chinese city. The novels have an extremely tenuous relationship with the real world, since the hero is the city's Hell and ends up with a sidekick who is a demon. Liz Williams

Myself Relationship World Hero Hell Sidekick Extremely Slightly Futuristic City Detective Written Since Demon Real Up Ends The Real World Real World Chinese Who Series Novels Imaginary Set

In the beginning, I started doing portraits of children, and of course, children have large eyes. For some reason, they just started getting bigger and bigger. Then, when I started painting imaginary children rather than real ones, they became bigger still. Margaret Keane

They are imaginary characters. But perhaps not solely the products of my imagination, since there are some aspects of the characters that relate to my own experience of a wide variety of people. Margaret Mahy

Experience People Own Imagination Relate Solely Characters Some My Own Variety Since Perhaps Aspects Products Wide Wide Variety Imaginary

Freedom to tell any story I want, with all the imaginary tools of my trade, is why I love writing novels. I love taking an idea, fleshing it out into a new world - and going on adventures with characters who day-dream themselves into existence and take on lives of their own. Marjorie Liu

Love Freedom Writing World Own Tools Out Tell Characters Take Taking Idea Adventures New Trade Existence Any Going New World Want Story Themselves Who Novels Why Lives Imaginary

Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys, and eagerly pursues imaginary joys. Mark Akenside

Trifles Seeks Joys Toys Fantastic Painted Eagerly Imaginary

Since I've worked in film and television for so long, I've acquired the ability to let the version of the characters that lives in my mind make way for the living, breathing humans who are going to play them on screen. If you cast it right - and casting is about 80% of directing - they will eventually replace or exceed the imaginary image. Mark Frost

You Mind Will Long Living On-Screen Way Television Characters Ability About Directing Exceed Cast Casting Since Make Version Replace Going Screen Them Acquired Breathing Worked Who Film Eventually Film And Television Lives Play Right Image Humans Imaginary

Suppose you could be hooked up to a hypothetical 'experience machine' that, for the rest of your life, would stimulate your brain and give you any positive feelings you desire. Most people to whom I offer this imaginary choice refuse the machine. It is not just positive feelings we want: we want to be entitled to our positive feelings. Martin Seligman

Positive Life You Experience People Rest Entitled Feelings Our Machine Hooked Would Give Could Hypothetical Suppose Most Stimulate Brain Up Offer Any Just Refuse Want Choice Your Whom Imaginary Desire

I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake. Mary McCarthy

Cake Imagination Putting Am Real Imaginary

When I was a teenager, I continued to visit imaginary places by spending all my free time at our local community theater. Whether I acted in a play or worked backstage, the world of Tennessee Williams or Shakespeare always seemed more real to me than the dreary life of high school. Mary Pope Osborne

Life Time Me World School Free Community Teenager Local Local Community Our Spending Backstage Visit Williams High Dreary High School Seemed Shakespeare More Tennessee Tennessee Williams Free Time Always Real Continue Than Whether Theater Places Worked Acted Play Imaginary

One of the reasons I got into acting to begin with is that I was trying to figure out how life worked. It was interesting to me to try and follow how other people, real or imaginary, would deal with problems, because I was trying to deal with my own problems. Michael Shannon

Life Me People Try Problems Own Other Out Would Follow My Own Because Deal Got How Real Begin Trying Interesting Worked Acting Figure Reasons Imaginary

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

Time You Business Feedback Spend Spent Solid Launching Dreamed Seeing Scenarios Gives Could Instead Idea Ideas Real Up Conference Wallow What If Fiddling Room Plan Your Floats Filling Actually Imaginary

This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof. Neil Gaiman

Work Otherwise Characters Folk Only Casting Fairy Unwise Existence Offend Lack Human Fiction Might Certain Doubts Thereof Whom Imaginary

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

Fantasia Land Imaginary

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

Fight Islam Networks Crusade Terrorist Against International Right Imaginary Associate

Children, I mean, think of your own childhood, how important the bedtime story was. How important these imaginary experiences were for you. They helped shape reality, and I think human beings wouldn't be human without narrative fiction. Paul Auster

You Reality Important Own Think Shape Without Narrative How Bedtime Were Childhood Human Children Experiences Fiction Human Beings Story Mean Your Helped Beings Imaginary

Blending consensus historical events and personages with imaginary occult forces is a strong recipe for counterfactual storytelling goodness that combines the best of two worlds: resonant history with wild-eyed fantasy. Paul Di Filippo

Best History Events Strong Goodness Recipe Resonant Worlds Blending Forces Occult Historical Storytelling Fantasy Consensus Imaginary Two

But primitive man had enemies real as well as imaginary, and they were not subject to priestly sorceries. Paul P. Harris

Man Enemies Had Priestly Primitive Well Real Were Subject Imaginary

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