Listening to Britons dining out is like watching people play first-class tennis with imaginary balls.
In all the houses keys to memorizing objects and feelings had been written. But the system demanded so much vigilance and moral strength that many succumbed to the spell of an imaginary reality, one invented by themselves, which was less practical for them but more comforting.
Divisions are imaginary lines drawn by small minds.
Lonely children often have imaginary playmates but I was never lonely; rather, I was solitary, and wanted no company at all other than books and movies, and my own imagination.
As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along what imaginary lines the human organism, in the most intimate recesses of its being, manifests its capture in a symbolic dimension.
As a child, I was an imaginary playmate.
The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.
I used to have an imaginary friend named Michael.
We shouldn't even need the word 'atheism'. If people didn't invent ridiculous imaginary gods, rational people wouldn't have to deny them.
My mom said I was an escapist at heart. . . . that I preferred imaginary worlds to the real one
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.
I can't even trust my own imaginary dog. How much lower can a person get?
Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.
I'm not interested in an imaginary world
Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.
All the literati keep An imaginary friend.
I think that in the colonial imaginary of the average Mexican, in how it drives us, the economic dependence on the US, and in some cases cultural dependence, is quite palpable, very strong.
Real. Does that make me imaginary?
There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.
The incurable ills are the imaginary ills.