Foiled Again

Imagination means nothing without doing. - Charlie Chaplin

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

The power of imagination makes us infinite. - John Muir

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

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

What a strange illusion to suppose that beauty is goodness. - Leo Tolstoy

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

You should never have more children than you have car windows. - Erma Bombeck

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination. - Voltaire

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

When a police officer tells you to stay in the car, you stay in the car. - Reese Witherspoon

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

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. - John Dewey

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

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

I have nothing but troubles with my car. Every Sunday I take my family out for a push. - Rodney Dangerfield

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

I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination. - Cornelia Funke

A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after. - Peter DeVries

Our fears are more numerous than our dangers, and we suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca

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

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

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination. - Carl Jung

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

Life's golden age is when the children are too old to need babysitters and too young to borrow the family car. - Unknown

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

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

When I die, I want to go peacefully like my grandfather did, in his sleep. Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car. - Unknown

It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawn mower, snowblower and vacuum cleaner. - Ben Bergor

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

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

Music is amoral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. - Plato