Lifting a Cruise Ship

Everyone needs a fantasy. - Andy Warhol

An idea is salvation by imagination. - Frank Lloyd Wright

Imagination means nothing without doing. - Charlie Chaplin

Eat right, exercise regularly, die anyway. - Unknown

A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination. - Arthur Pinero

Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm. - Publilius Syrus

If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it. - Jonathan Winters

I'm not gaining weight. I'm living large. - Unknown

I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me. - Mark Twain

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

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

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

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates. - Oscar Wilde

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

It is the starved imagination, not the well-nourished, that is afraid. - E.M. Forster

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. - Mark Twain

After the ship has sunk, a consultant knows how it might have been saved. - Newt Hielscher

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future. - Charles F. Kettering

Where beams of imagination play,
The memory's soft figures melt away. - Alexander Pope

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

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions. - Albert Einstein

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

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. - Daniel J. Boorstin

Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them. - Stephen Covey

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

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

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

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind. - Jacques Martin Barzun

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it. - Ursula K. Le Guin

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

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

My wife is on a diet. Coconuts and bananas. She hasn't lost any weight, but she can sure climb a tree. - Henny Youngman

America is a country where half the money is spent buying food, and the other half is spent trying to lose weight. - Unknown

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

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

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

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

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