Foiled Again

An idea is salvation by imagination. - Frank Lloyd Wright

Live out of your imagination, not your history. - Stephen Covey

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

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

Feminism is a wonderful idea until the car goes wrong. - Nicola Zweig

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

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

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. - Miguel de Unamuno

There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I'm capable of anything, my imagination can give me wings. - Nas

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

Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years. - Sheila Ballantyne

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

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

Man either goes forward in imagination or remains imprisoned in his senses. - Unknown

It is sometimes as dangerous to be run into by a microbe as by a trolley car. - J.J. Walsh

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

You know you're a redneck if your home has wheels and your car doesn't. - Jeff Foxworthy

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

Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out. - Criss Jami

Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery. - Erma Bombeck

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

I think Nature's imagination is so much greater than man's, she's never gonna let us relax! - Richard P Feynman

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet. - Woody Allen

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

The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy. - Lionel Trilling

Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car. - Garrison Keillor

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

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

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

Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down. - George Carlin

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

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

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

A car hits a Jewish man. The paramedic rushes over and says, "Are you comfortable?" The guy says, "I make a good living." - Henny Youngman

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

My life is the land, the dogs, the car, the motorcycle, the pond, the canoe, going to pick up mail. It's just a rural retreat that I enjoy. - Burt Shavitz