PITIFUL, adj. The state of an enemy or opponent after an imaginary encounter with oneself.
The stronger the imagination, the less imaginary the results.
I don't think I've ever prayed in my entire life, never sat and had an imaginary chat with God.
Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience.
A person incapable of imaging another world than given to him by his senses would be subhuman, and a person who identifies his imaginary world with the world of sensory fact has become insane.
The things I fear may all be imaginary, so what I fear most is my imagination.
What is the heart? It is not human and it is not imaginary. I call it you.
I didn't have an imaginary childhood friend, but I did one day imagine somehow tiny green men, and they were only tiny and green because my brother had a ton of toy soldier toys that came on a skateboard plank type of thing, and I just envisioned in this car driving to church with my mom, they were there.
The imaginary world has always been the most fun place for me to be.
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.
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.
Have you seen a unicorn in the woods?" "I imagine that's next," Jared muttered. "Right," said Holly. "Well. If the unicorn is pink, about two feet tall, with a sparkly mane, we'll know my imaginary friend is real too.
I urge pupils when studying a work and in order to master its most important aspic, the rhythmic structure, or the ordering of the time process, to do just what a conductor does with the score: to place music on the desk and to conduct the work from beginning to end as if it were played by someone else, an imaginary pianist with the conductor trying to impress him with his will, his tempo first of all, plus all the details of his performance.
Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real.
Dear Basketball, From the moment I started rolling my dad's tube socks and shooting imaginary game-winning shots. . . I fell in love with you.
The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him. All our faculties keep us within the realm of the real, of what is already there. The most we can do is to combine things or break them up. The metaphor alone furnishes an escape; between the real things, it lets emerge imaginary reefs, a crop of floating islands.
The author: an imaginary person who writes real books.
Been brainwashed since age 2 I only had imaginary friends And still do And they hate you
The more science I studied, the more I saw that physics becomes metaphysics and numbers become imaginary numbers. The farther you go into science, the mushier the ground gets. You start to say, 'Oh, there is an order and a spiritual aspect to science.
Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.