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You have to hold onto your fantasy. - Betsey Johnson

Imagination means nothing without doing. - Charlie Chaplin

A strong imagination begetteth opportunity. - Michel de Montaigne

Imagination is more important than knowledge. - Albert Einstein

Before imagination can flow, you must let go. - Unknown

A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination. - Arthur Pinero

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

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

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

My single-minded aim is to give existence to fantasy. - Claes Oldenburg

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

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. - Jules de Gaultier

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. - Thomas Edison

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. - Albert Einstein

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

Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish. - Minna Antrim

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

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

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

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

He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts. - Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

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

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. - Albert Einstein

There's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons. - Fred Saberhagen

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. - Terry Pratchett

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

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

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

Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need. - Tom Robbins

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