Wait 'til It Falls

Imagination is the eye of the soul. - Joseph Joubert

An idea is salvation by imagination. - Frank Lloyd Wright

Imagination is intelligence having fun. - George Scialabra

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Oscar Wilde

Inflation: everyone's illusion of wealth - Unknown

Without ice cream there would be darkness and chaos. - Don Kardong

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

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

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one. - Terry Pratchett

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

The Possible's slow fuse is lit
By the Imagination. - Emily Dickinson

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

I've always enjoyed living in a fantasy world, daydreaming. - James Duval

Life is too short to eat vanilla ice cream and dance with boring men. - Unknown

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone. - Jim Fiebig

If you turn the imagination loose like a hunting dog, it will often return with the bird in its mouth. - William Maxwell

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

The mathematician is entirely free, within the limits of the imagination, to construct what worlds he pleases. - J.W.N. Sullivan

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

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

The public has an appetite for anything about imagination: anything that is far away from reality as is creatively possible. - Steven Spielberg

Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. - Gloria Steinem

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

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination. - Edmund Burke

Everyone knows that ice cream is worth the trouble of being cold. Like all things virtuous, you have to suffer to gain the reward. - Brandon Sanderson

The tropical rain forests are a telling example. Once cut down, they rarely recover. Rainfall drops, deserts spread, the climate warms. - James Lovelock

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate - that's my philosophy. - Thornton Wilder

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