Holding On To The Moon

He'll have us going to the moon yet. - Unknown

The man with no imagination has no wings. - Muhammad Ali

The power of imagination makes us infinite. - John Muir

Inflation: everyone's illusion of wealth - Unknown

A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination. - Arthur Pinero

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. - Ludwig Borne

What a strange illusion to suppose that beauty is goodness. - Leo Tolstoy

Liberty: One of Imagination's most previous possessions. - Ambrose Bierce

My barn having burned to the ground, I can now see the moon. - Christina Frederick

I'm capable of anything, my imagination can give me wings. - Nas

I always had a fantasy of being a chef, because I like kitchen life. - Geoffrey Rush

In order to please others, we lose our hold on our life's purpose. - Epictetus

Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly. - Morticia Addams

Man either goes forward in imagination or remains imprisoned in his senses. - Unknown

Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life. - Adele Brookman

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. - Lanston Hughes

Imagination, of course, can open any door - turn the key and let terror walk right in. - Truman Capote

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

When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom. - Walter Annenberg

Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment. - Isabel Allende

We all carry these things inside that no one else can see. They hold us down like anchors. - Diana Cox

If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's backyard. - Jesse Owens

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. - Irish Murdoch

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself. - Henry Ward Beecher

Our fears are more numerous than our dangers, and we suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca

If you turn the imagination loose like a hunting dog, it will often return with the bird in its mouth. - William Maxwell

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist but you have ceased to live. - Mark Twain

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet. - Woody Allen

It's useless to hold a person to anything he says when he's in love, drunk or running for office. - Shirley Maclaine

Don't be afraid. Don't be afraid of anything. Whatever you have been, you are mine now. I can hold you. - Peter S. Beagle

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I'll see you at the opera tonight. I'll hold your seat till you get there. After that, you're on your own. - Groucho Marx

Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination. - Tim Robbins

You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself. - George Bernard Shaw

The space in a needle's eye is sufficient for two friends, but the whole world is scarcely big enough to hold two enemies. - Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is. - Horace Walpole

You will recognize your own path when you come upon it because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need. - Sara Teasdale

When my wife says she'll be ready in 5 minutes, I know I have just enough time to fly to space and write a poem on the moon before we go. - Mike Vanatta

There is a difference between a belief and a conviction. A belief can become something you merely hold; a conviction is that which holds you. - Ravi Zacharias

Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold you have escaped, not from one master, but from many. - Plato