Holding On

A pigment of your imagination - Archie Bunker

You have to hold onto your fantasy. - Betsey Johnson

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Oscar Wilde

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

Imagination is more important than knowledge. - Albert Einstein

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

Where there is no imagination there is no horror. - Arthur Conan Doyle

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

An Irishman's heart is nothing but his imagination. - George Bernard Shaw

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

The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. - Henry Ward Beecher

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

With a treehouse and a little imagination, we can go anywhere. - Unknown

Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions. - Albert Einstein

I always had a fantasy of being a chef, because I like kitchen life. - Geoffrey Rush

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

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. - Josh Billings

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

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

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. - Irish Murdoch

Rome didn't create an Empire by holding meetings - they did it by killing their enemies. - Chris Johnson

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination. - Christopher Isherwood

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination. - Ernest Hemingway

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

When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers. - Imelda Marcos

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. - Unknown

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. - Judith Viorst

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