Do You See A Bird or a Girl?

Everyone needs a fantasy. - Andy Warhol

A gun gives you the body, not the bird. - Henry David Thoreau

A strong imagination begetteth opportunity. - Michel de Montaigne

If you want the girl next door, go next door. - Joan Crawford

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. - William Blake

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but imagination. - Immanuel Kant

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one. - Terry Pratchett

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. - Thomas Edison

I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird. - Coco Chanel

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. - Albert Einstein

I'd rather have two girls at 21 each than one girl at 42. - WC Fields

There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He who has imagination without learning, has wings and no feet. - Joseph Joubert

A girl must marry for love, and keep on marrying until she finds it. - Zsa Zsa Gabor

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. - Oscar Wilde

Our separation from each other is an optical illusion of consciousness. - Albert Einstein

The bird, the bee, the running child are all the same to the sliding glass door. - Demetri Martin

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. - James Russel Lowell

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. - Daniel J. Boorstin

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure. - Scott Adams

A girl who thinks that a man will treat her better after marriage than before is a fool. - William C. Hall

There's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons. - Fred Saberhagen

My husband, Fang, is so dumb I once said, "There's a dead bird." He looked up. - Phyllis Diller

I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination. - Cornelia Funke

Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape. - Terry Pratchett

The fantasy of every Australian man is to have two women - one cleaning and the other dusting. - Maurenn Murphy

It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw. - Damien Hirst

After all, inside every woman, no matter how grown up she is, there is still a frightened little girl. - Sergei Lukyanenko

What your mind sees when you close your eyes marks the entrance to an endless universe: your imagination. - Stephen Helmes

The mathematician is entirely free, within the limits of the imagination, to construct what worlds he pleases. - J.W.N. Sullivan

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves. - Albert Einstein

A dreamer and a thinker understood the value of imagination. He called his imagination a "holy curiosity." - Albert Einstein

I chased a girl for two years only to discover that her tastes were exactly like mine: We were both crazy about girls. - Groucho Marx

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet. - Hal Borland

Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. - Gloria Steinem

A male frigate bird blows up a wild red pouch on his neck. He can keep it puffed up for hours. It is his way of impressing the girls. - Julie Murphy

We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die. - W H Auden

When you talk about fantasy, the usual problem is that whilst you've got the world of imagination, there are no controlling forces. - Raymond E. Feist

Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't imagine what it might be. - Joyce Carol Oates

Fantasy has a dark side to it. It also has a light hemisphere - the power of the human imagination to keep going, to imagine a better tomorrow. - Tim O'Brien