Maiden Rock Illusion

A pigment of your imagination - Archie Bunker

An idea is salvation by imagination. - Frank Lloyd Wright

Imagination is intelligence having fun. - George Scialabra

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Oscar Wilde

Imagination means nothing without doing. - Charlie Chaplin

In rock music terms I'm like a dinosaur. - Belinda Carlisle

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. - H L Mencken

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

My single-minded aim is to give existence to fantasy. - Claes Oldenburg

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years. - Sheila Ballantyne

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

A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last. - Helen Rowland

Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it. - Lloyd Alexander

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock. - Sigmund Freud

Everybody talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll. - Keith Richards

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

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

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. - Carl Sagan

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

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. - Albert Einstein

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. - Dr. Seuss

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

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

The imagination exercises a powerful influence over every act of sense, thought, reason, over every idea. - Latin Proverb

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. - Simone Weil

A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate. - Donald Trump

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination. - Carl Jung

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

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable. - Walt Disney

Rock is so much fun. That's what it's all about - filling up the chest cavities and empty kneecaps and elbows. - Jimi Hendrix

The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy. - Lionel Trilling

One supreme fact which I have discovered is that it is not willpower but imagination that creates. Imagination creates reality. - Richard Wagner

My imagination persisted in sticking horrors into the dark- so I stuck my imagination into the dark instead, and let it look out at me. - F Scott Fitzgerald

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

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

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable. - Carl Jung