Playing Mantis

Imagination rules the world. - Napoleon

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Oscar Wilde

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

Imagination is more important than knowledge. - Albert Einstein

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart. - Ruth Graham

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

Where there is no imagination there is no horror. - Arthur Conan Doyle

Musician: Someone who makes a living by playing around - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back. - Philip Brookes

There are certain things you just don't do in fantasy. - J K Rowling

Endless Love: Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder playing tennis. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down. - Robert Frost

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

Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions. - Albert Einstein

Love is like playing checkers. You have to know which man to move. - Jackie Mabley

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

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. - John Dewey

Xenophobia doesn't benefit anybody unless you're playing high stakes Scrabble. - Dennis Miller

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

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

Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them. - Albert Camus

I stayed up all night playing poker with tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died. - Steven Wright

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

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

Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found that out. - Mark Twain

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

I'm a chameleon when it come to guitar playing, and like to stretch out into different territories. - Nancy Wilson

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

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

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

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

Every act of perception is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination. - Gerard M. Edelman

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most? - Mark Twain

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that's less than the one you're capable of living. - Nelson Mandela

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