Lifting a Cruise Ship

A pigment of your imagination - Archie Bunker

I'm in no shape to exercise. - Unknown

Imagination is the eye of the soul. - Joseph Joubert

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Oscar Wilde

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. - Douglas Adams

Smoking cures weight problems... eventually. - Steven Wright

Imagination is more important than knowledge. - Albert Einstein

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

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

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

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

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

I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship. - Louisa May Alcott

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

A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. - John Shedd

Our separation from each other is an optical illusion of consciousness. - Albert Einstein

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

Design is about discipline and reality, not about fantasy beyond reality. - Albert Hadley

I gotta lose weight, Edith. I hope you remembered my diuretic cottage cheese. - Archie Bunker

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

The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - a waif, a nothing, a no man. - Thomas Carlyle

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

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

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

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

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

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

A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate. - Donald Trump

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

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

Oh my. Space travel sounds rather perilous. I can assure you they will never get me on one of those dreadful Star Ships. - C-3PO

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

We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die. - W H Auden

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

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

The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth - something very difficult for a politician. Or watch your food - just watch it, don't eat it. - Edward I Kock