Sand Carpet

You have to hold onto your fantasy. - Betsey Johnson

Imagination means nothing without doing. - Charlie Chaplin

The power of imagination makes us infinite. - John Muir

The human race is governed by its imagination. - Napoleon Bonaparte

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality. - Seneca

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

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

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

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

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion. - Noam Chomsky

He who has imagination without learning, has wings and no feet. - Joseph Joubert

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

I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy. - Marilyn Monroe

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

Design is about discipline and reality, not about fantasy beyond reality. - Albert Hadley

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

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

All things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least. - C S Lewis

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. - C S Lewis

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

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

The fantasy of every Australian man is to have two women - one cleaning and the other dusting. - Maurenn Murphy

Such a figure, that imagination cannot form an idea of a fury from hell, to look more frightful. - Charles Johnson

It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw. - Damien Hirst

When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child... eventually. - Steven Wright

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

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

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

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

In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called 'licking the earth.' - Malcolm Muggeridge

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

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is. - Horace Walpole

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

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

Clay. It's rain, dead leaves, dust, all my dead ancestors. Stones that have been ground into sand. Mud. The whole cycle of life and death. - Martine Vermeulen

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable. - Carl Jung

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