Sand Carpet

Imagination rules the world. - Napoleon

Imagination is intelligence having fun. - George Scialabra

Imagination means nothing without doing. - Charlie Chaplin

A strong imagination begetteth opportunity. - Michel de Montaigne

Imagination is more important than knowledge. - Albert Einstein

I put hardwood floors on top of wall-to-wall carpet. - Steven Wright

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

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but imagination. - Immanuel Kant

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

The possible's slow fuse is lit by the imagination. - Emily Dickinson

When I go to the beach, even the tide won't come in. - Phyllis Diller

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

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

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

She's a skeleton in the sand right now. She comes and she goes. - Annalies Corbin

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

A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last. - Helen Rowland

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

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

Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it. - Lloyd Alexander

It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up. - Muhammad Ali

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

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. - Carl Sagan

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

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. - Dr. Seuss

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

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination. - Christopher Isherwood

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

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

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

It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work. - Hugh N Jacobsen

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand. - Milton Friedman

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

I was the equivalent of a 98 pound weakling. I would go to the beach and people would throw copies of Byron in my face! - Robin Williams

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

My imagination persisted in sticking horrors into the dark- so I stuck my imagination into the dark instead, and let it look out at me. - F Scott Fitzgerald

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

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