“Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.”
Lily Tomlin (1939) American actress, comedian, writer, and producer
As "Chrissy"
Contributions of Jane Wagner, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (1985)
“Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.”
Lily Tomlin (1939) American actress, comedian, writer, and producer
As "Chrissy"
Contributions of Jane Wagner, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (1985)
“Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.”
Jane Wagner (1935) Playwright, actress
As "Chrissy"
The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (1985)
“I am ignoring you. In fact, I think you are a figment of my imagination.”
Bruce Coville (1950) American writer
Source: Dark Whispers
“Equilibrium is a figment of the human imagination.”
Kenneth E. Boulding (1910–1993) British-American economist
Source: 1970s, Toward a General Social Science, 1974, p. 29
Francisco De Goya (1746–1828) Spanish painter and printmaker (1746–1828)
letter 206, c. 1787; in Goya, A life in Letters, edited and introduced by Sarah Simmons; transl. Philip Troutman, London, Pimlico, 2004 <br class="br">Goya understands that the social role he has reached (he is royal painter from 1789) will prevent him from attending places where people sing http://letteraturaartistica.blogspot.nl/2015/09/goya-life-in-letters-edited-and.html <br class="br">1780s
Cyrano de Bergerac (1619–1655) French novelist, dramatist, scientist and duelist
The Other World (1657)
Context: I established myself in a fairly remote country house and entertained my imagination with various means of transport. Here is how I betook myself to heaven.
I attached to myself a number of bottles of dew, and the heat of the sun, which attracted it, drew me so high that I finally emerged above the highest clouds. But the sun's attraction of the dew drew me upwards so rapidly that instead of approaching the Moon, as I intended, I seemed to be farther from it than when I started. I broke open some of the bottles and felt my weight overcome the attraction and bring me back towards the earth.
“gravity, n.
I imagine you saved my life. And then I wonder if I'm just imagining it.”
David Levithan The Lover's Dictionary
Source: The Lover's Dictionary