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"The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary." »Franklin P. Adams
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"Long hair is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket." »Marge Piercy
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"[Long hair] is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket." »Marge Piercy
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"I was the kid next door's imaginary friend." »Emo Phillips
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"What do I believe As an American I believe in generosity, in liberty, in the rights of man. These are social and political faiths that are part of me, as they are, I suppose, part of all of us. Such beliefs are easy to express. But part of me too is my relation to all life, my religion. And this is not so easy to talk about. Religious experience is highly intimate and, for me, ready words are not at hand." »Adlai Ewing Stevenson
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"Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter." »Oliver Goldsmith
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"Thomas is racing for it, but McCovey is there and can't get his glove to it. That play shows the inexperience, not on Thomas' part, but on the part of Willie McC ... well, not on McCovey's part either." »Jerry Coleman
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"No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage." »Athenus
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"Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist." »Edgar Watson Howe
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"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." »Henry Louis Mencken
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"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
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"It is the part of wisdom to keep your word and the part of folly to count on other people keeping theirs." »Richard Needham
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"Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another people are friends in spots." »George Santayana
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"The mountains, I become a part of it... The morning mists, the clouds, the gathering waters, I become a part of it." »Navajo Chant
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"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem, but the perpetual human predicament is that the answer soon poses its own problems." »Sydney Harris
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"Once a new technology rolls over you, if your're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road." »Stewart Brand
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"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace in a continual state of alarm (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing them with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." »H.L. Mencken
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"What we're saying today is that you're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem." »Eldridge Cleaver
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"The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist." »Aaron Machado
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"The really potent part of love is that it allows you to carry around beliefs about yourself that make you feel special, desirable, precious, innately good. Your lover couldn't have seen these qualities in you, even temporarily, if they weren't part of your essential being." »Martha Beck
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"To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind." »W. Somerset Maugham
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"There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good." »Samuel Johnson
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"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate." »Henry J. Tillman
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"In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part." »Alexander Pope
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"From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines, Going where I list, my own master total and absolute, Listening to others, considering well what they say, Pausing, searching, receiving, contemplating, Gently, but with undeniable will, divesting myself of the holds that would hold me." »Walt Whitman
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"Whenever I need to get away,'' I just get away in my mind. I go to my imaginary spot, where the beach is perfect and the water is perfect and the weather is perfect. The only bad thing there are the flies. They're terrible" »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"A verb has a hard enough time of it in this world when it is all together. It's downright inhuman to split it up. But that's what those Germans do. They take part of a verb and put it down here, like a stake, and they take the other part of it and put it a way over yonder like another stake, and between these two limits they just shovel in German." »Mark Twain
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"If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us." »Hermann Hesse
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"Brain researchers estimate that your unconscious database outweighs the conscious on an order exceeding ten million to one. This database is the source of your hidden, natural genius. In other words, a part of you is much smarter than you are. The wise people regularly consult that smarter part." »Michael J. Gelb
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"One day one of my little nephews came up to me and asked me if the equator was a real line that went around the Earth, or just an imaginary one. I had to laugh. Laugh and laugh. Because I didn't know, and I thought that maybe by laughing he would forget what he asked me." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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