#imaginary

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #imaginary




if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones.


Norton Juster


#fantasy #fiction #humor #illusions #imaginary

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.


Andy Warhol


#fantasy-love #imaginary-sex #imagination #love #sex

The first-born in every family is always dreaming for an imaginary older brother or sister who will look out for them.


Bill Cosby


#brother #dreaming #every #family #imaginary

The Bristol Channel was always my guide, and I was always able to draw an imaginary line from my bed to our house over in Wales. It was a great comfort.


Roald Dahl


#always #bed #bristol #channel #comfort

Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.


E. W. Howe


#die #difficulties #exist #foothills #imaginary

...gods, religions and national boundaries are absolutely imaginary. They don't tend to exist. As soon as you pull back half a mile and look down at the Earth there are no national boundaries. There aren't even national boundaries when you get down and walk around. They're just imaginary lines we draw on maps. I just get fascinated by people who assume that things that are imaginary have no relevance to their lives.


Neil Gaiman


#imaginary #religion

Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand, leaves them at an imaginary level.


Manuel Puig


#contrary #does #fictions #hand #i

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


#consisted #either #fiction #general #having

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.


H. L. Mencken


#aim #alarmed #endless #endless series #hence

I like to create imaginary characters and events around a real historical situation. I want readers to feel: OK, this probably didn't happen, but it might have.


Ken Follett


#characters #create #events #feel #happen