Playing Mantis

Everyone needs a fantasy. - Andy Warhol

An idea is salvation by imagination. - Frank Lloyd Wright

Before imagination can flow, you must let go. - Unknown

There are not many Irish people playing tennis. - Goran Ivanisevic

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

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

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

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

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. - Voltaire

My wife is such a bad cook, in my house we pray after the meal. - Rodney Dangerfield

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

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates. - Oscar Wilde

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

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. - Mark Twain

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

Show me a good loser and I'll show you a man playing golf with his boss. - Unknown

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future. - Charles F. Kettering

Where beams of imagination play,
The memory's soft figures melt away. - Alexander Pope

He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts. - Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. - James Russel Lowell

When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart. - John Bunyan

Work as if you were to live a hundred years.
Pray as if you were to die tomorrow. - Benjamin Franklin

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

Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing. - Oliver W. Holmes

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. - Samuel Butler

The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it. - Josh Billings

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

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

I dreamt of you last night, as if I was playing the piano and you were turning the pages for me. - Vladimir Nabokov

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

I am a lizard, a shark, a heat-seeking panther. I want to be Bob Denver on acid playing the accordion. - Nicolas Cage

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

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

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

Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to awake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings. - Ignace Jan Paderewski

The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool. - Jonathan Swift

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

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. - John Muir

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