{"quotes":[{"text":"Sometimes he does talk back, but sometimes he doesn’t. Sometimes he’s not there; and from time to time I believe this was all nothing but imaginary.","author":"Dominic Riccitello","tags":["imaginary","imagination","life","love","muse","quote","reality","thoughts","truth"],"id":4118,"author_id":"Dominic+Riccitello"},{"text":"Gentleman: An imaginary creature found in Jane Austen novels.","author":"Natalya Vorobyova","tags":["chivalry","gentleman","imaginary","jane-austen","men","novel","politeness","tactless","ungentlemanly","women"],"id":9508,"author_id":"Natalya+Vorobyova"},{"text":"An imaginary friend once asked me why Americans can't stand Russia. The answer was cold, deadly, silent, and, well expected. It’s because in Soviet Russia nothing happens anymore, because it doesn’t exist anymore. And Americans are all about happenings. If there isn’t one – they don’t go where it isn’t, because there isn’t anything to happen to them there.","author":"Will Advise","tags":["america","answer","answers","cold","deadly","death","expectation","expectations","expected","friend","happening","happenings","imaginary","imagination","imagined","kgb","nothing","nsa","question","questions","russia","silence","silent","soviet-russia","soviet-union","ussr"],"id":23787,"author_id":"Will+Advise"},{"text":"Dr. Richard Selzer is a surgeon and a favorite author of mine. He writes the most beautiful and compassionate descriptions of his patients and the human dramas they confront. In his book Letters to a Young Doctor, he said that most young people seem to be protected for a time by an imaginary membrane that shields them from horror. They walk in it every day but are hardly aware of its presence. As the immune system protects the human body from the unseen threat of harmful bacteria, so this mythical membrane guards them from life-threatening situations. Not every young person has this protection, of course, because children do die of cancer, congenital heart problems, and other disorders. But most of them are shielded—and don’t realize it. Then, as years roll by, one day it happens. Without warning, the membrane tears, and horror seeps into a person’s life or into the life of a loved one. It is at this moment that an unexpected theological crisis presents itself.","author":"James C. Dobson","tags":["and","aware","bacteria","be","beautiful","body","book","by","cancer","children","compassionate","confront","congenital-heart-problems","crisis","descriptions","die","disorders","do","doctor-richard-selzer","don-t","dramas","every","every-day","from","guards","happens","hardly","harmful","his","horror","human","imaginary","immune-system","into","it","its","itself","letters-to-a-young-doctor","life","life-threatening","loved-one","membrane","moment","most","mythical","not","of","one-day","other","patients","people","person","person-s","presence","presents","protected","protection","protects","realize","roll","seem","seeps","shields","situations","surgeon","tears","the","them","theological","they","threat","time","to","unexpected","unseen","walk","warning","without","years","young"],"id":28622,"author_id":"James+C.+Dobson"},{"text":"The way we envision the stars is by imagining they're attached to a giant invisible sphere surrounding the earth. It is a total fiction, really - just a construction we came up with to help us get our heads around the complexity of it all ... The ecliptic, put simply is the plane of the earth's orbit around the sun. But since we all live here on earth, we observe the sun to be moving along this plane instead. Why? Because what would be the point of looking at things from the perspective of the sun? That's no use to anyone ... Ergo, it's an imaginary circle, as it's only a part of our human construction of the cosmos.","author":"Benjamin Wood","tags":["ecliptic","imaginary","sun"],"id":45722,"author_id":"Benjamin+Wood"},{"text":"She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable.","author":"Louisa May Alcott","tags":["heroes","imaginary","real","relationships"],"id":74101,"author_id":"Louisa+May+Alcott"},{"text":"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.","author":"Norton Juster","tags":["children-s","fantasy","fiction","humor","illusions","imaginary","imagination","on-fiction","reality"],"id":102204,"author_id":"Norton+Juster"},{"text":"With Pollution, emotion is irrelevant, it is not their nature,” Mearth sighed, making a face as if she were talking to an ignorant small child. “I didn’t create them, humans created the Pollution. Cheryl Nobel, Alecto Steele, Albert Sanders, Olivia Campbell, all my pretty little Representations, there aren’t many of them left these days but they’re still very dangerous! They’re here to tell society all about its mistakes! You don’t understand the world of Representations.","author":"Rebecca McNutt","tags":["alberta","canada","cape-breton","chemicals","chernobyl","coal","death","disturbing","dying","earth","entity","environment","fear","green","grief","hazardous","hippie","imaginary","imagination","loss","love-canal","mother-earth","nature","nova-scotia","pollution","recycle","representation","scared","smog","steel","storm","suicide","sydney-tar-ponds","tar","tar-sands","toxic-waste"],"id":111589,"author_id":"Rebecca+McNutt"},{"text":"You don't have to be invisible to disappear.","author":"Rebecca McNutt","tags":["disappear","imaginary","invisible","lonely","missing","pretend"],"id":114691,"author_id":"Rebecca+McNutt"},{"text":"Future is something imaginary but the present moment is something real!","author":"Mehmet Murat ildan","tags":["future","future","ildan-wise-sayings","imaginary","murat-ildan","present-moment","present-moment-qoutes","real"],"id":143031,"author_id":"Mehmet+Murat+ildan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":46,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}