Lifting a Cruise Ship

Imagination is intelligence having fun. - George Scialabra

Eat right, exercise regularly, die anyway. - Unknown

The power of imagination makes us infinite. - John Muir

Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight. - Tom Stoppard

A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination. - Arthur Pinero

The human race is governed by its imagination. - Napoleon Bonaparte

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

My weight is perfect for my height - which varies. - Unknown

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. - Joseph Addison

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

He who has imagination without learning, has wings and no feet. - Joseph Joubert

Day and night, their frail and crippled ships defy the tempest. - Jorge Luis Borges

The success that the Tolkien books had redefined modern fantasy. - George R.R. Martin

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

Jumping At Conclusions: Not half as much exercise as digging for facts - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. - Oscar Wilde

I have a feeling that when my ship comes in I'll be at the airport. - Charles Schulz

An entire ocean can't sink a ship unless it allows the water inside. - Donna Smith

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

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. - C S Lewis

Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the towers of Ilium? - Christopher Marlowe

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. - George Bernard Shaw

The ship is safest when it is in port, but that's not what ships were built for. - Paulo Coelho

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure. - Scott Adams

Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment. - Isabel Allende

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

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

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

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

The imagination exercises a powerful influence over every act of sense, thought, reason, over every idea. - Latin Proverb

Dreams or illusions, call them what you will, they lift us from the commonplace of life to better things. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power. - Arthur C. Clarke

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

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

You will recognize your own path when you come upon it because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need. - Sara Teasdale

Stretching the capabilities of my imagination is a crucial aspect of writing fiction; you could think of it as a mental form of athleticism. - Julia Glass