Watered Down Illusion

You have to hold onto your fantasy. - Betsey Johnson

Worry is a waste of the imagination. - Unknown

Suntan: A pigment of your imagination. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Worry is simply imagination gone awry. - Peter Alwinson

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Oscar Wilde

Imagination means nothing without doing. - Charlie Chaplin

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

Noise creates illusions. Silence brings truth. - Maxime Lagace

Live out of your imagination, not your history. - Stephen R. Covey

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality. - Seneca

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

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

An Irishman's heart is nothing but his imagination. - George Bernard Shaw

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

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

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. - Jules de Gaultier

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

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

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. - Miguel de Unamuno

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

With a treehouse and a little imagination, we can go anywhere. - Unknown

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

The success that the Tolkien books had redefined modern fantasy. - George R.R. Martin

Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish. - Minna Antrim

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

Logic will get you from A to Z. Imagination will take you everywhere. - Albert Einstein

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

Design is about discipline and reality, not about fantasy beyond reality. - Albert Hadley

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

Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow, and fantasy. - Walt Disney

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions. - Albert Einstein

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. - George Bernard Shaw

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

Like the cosmetics industry, the securities business is engaged in selling illusion. - Paul Samuelson

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

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

Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them. - Stephen Covey

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

Such a figure, that imagination cannot form an idea of a fury from hell, to look more frightful. - Charles Johnson

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination. - Ernest Hemingway

The illusion that the times that were are better than those that are has probably pervaded all ages. - Horace Greeley

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination. - John Keats

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

I think Nature's imagination is so much greater than man's, she's never gonna let us relax! - Richard P Feynman

I like grey characters; fantasy for too long has been focused on very stereotypical heroes and villains. - George R.R. Martin

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Dreams or illusions, call them what you will, they lift us from the commonplace of life to better things. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

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

Fatalism is the creed of a will that is dying to its possibilities and seeks to drag the imagination with it. - Ravi Zacharias

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

May you keep dreaming until the day you die. May imagination overtake memory. May you die young at a ripe old age. - Mark Batterson

An expert problem solver must be endowed with two incompatible qualities: a restless imagination and a patient pertinacity. - Howard Eves

In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called 'licking the earth.' - Malcolm Muggeridge

Edgy is fine - I'm not a prude by any stretch of the imagination - but what's wrong with a good ol' belly laugh? - Carol Burnett

The public has an appetite for anything about imagination: anything that is far away from reality as is creatively possible. - Steven Spielberg

Every person on this earth is full of great possibilities that can be realized through imagination, effort, and perseverance. - Scott B Kaufman

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination. - Edmund Burke

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

Stretching the capabilities of my imagination is a crucial aspect of writing fiction; you could think of it as a mental form of athleticism. - Julia Glass

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