Sea Through Fish

Everyone needs a fantasy. - Andy Warhol

Treat the patient, not the X-ray. - James M. Hunter

You have to hold onto your fantasy. - Betsey Johnson

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. - Douglas Adams

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

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

The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination. - George Bernard Shaw

Be patient and calm; no one can catch a fish with anger. - Herbert Hoover

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

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

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

A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats. - Benjamin Franklin

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

It is the starved imagination, not the well-nourished, that is afraid. - E.M. Forster

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

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

What you need is somebody new - there's more than 1 fish in the woodpile. - Archie Bunker

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

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

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

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

Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out. - Criss Jami

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

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

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

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything. - Plato

Give a man a fish and you have fed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you have fed him for a lifetime. - Chinese Proverb

I keep looking for one more teacher, only to find that fish learn from the water and birds learn from the sky. - Mark Nepo

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power. - Arthur C. Clarke

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

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

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

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

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

Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need. - Tom Robbins

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