Playing Mantis

Everyone needs a fantasy. - Andy Warhol

A pigment of your imagination - Archie Bunker

Champions keep playing until they get it right. - Billie Jean King

We have to pray on behalf of those who do not pray. - Mother Teresa

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

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

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

Are we playing Men's Rules today or do we count every putt? - Unknown

If I'm going to Hell, I'm going there playing the piano. - Jerry Lee Lewis

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

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

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it. - Elbert Hubbard

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

A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache. - Catherine the Great

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

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

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

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

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

Imagination, of course, can open any door - turn the key and let terror walk right in. - Truman Capote

It is not the body's posture, but the heart's attitude that counts when we pray. - Billy Graham

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

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

It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf. - Robert Lynd

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

I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination. - Cornelia Funke

Playing Shakespeare is so tiring. You never get a chance to sit down unless you're a king. - Josephine Hull

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

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

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

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

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

I'm always astonished by a forest. It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. - Gunter Grass

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

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

Life is a child playing around your feet, a tool you hold firmly in your grip, a bench you sit down upon in the evening, in your garden. - Jean Anouilh

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