Sand Carpet

Imagination rules the world. - Napoleon

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Oscar Wilde

Imagination means nothing without doing. - Charlie Chaplin

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. - Douglas Adams

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

Imagination is more important than knowledge. - Albert Einstein

A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination. - Arthur Pinero

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

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

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. - Ludwig Borne

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

I used to look like a deer in headlights on the red carpet. - Emily Blunt

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

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

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

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

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

Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow, and fantasy. - Walt Disney

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

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

Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life. - Adele Brookman

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. - Daniel J. Boorstin

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

Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone. - Jorge Luis Borges

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

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

The illusion that the times that were are better than those that are has probably pervaded all ages. - Horace Greeley

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

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

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

I like grey characters; fantasy for too long has been focused on very stereotypical heroes and villains. - George R.R. Martin

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

Edgy is fine - I'm not a prude by any stretch of the imagination - but what's wrong with a good ol' belly laugh? - Carol Burnett

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. - Samuel Johnson

My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives. - Rita Rudner

You will recognize your own path when you come upon it because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need. - Sara Teasdale

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