Lifting a Cruise Ship

You have to hold onto your fantasy. - Betsey Johnson

The power of imagination makes us infinite. - John Muir

Inflation: everyone's illusion of wealth - Unknown

Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight. - Tom Stoppard

A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination. - Arthur Pinero

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

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

I consider exercise vulgar. It makes people smell. - Alec Yuill-Thornton

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality. - Seneca

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

Tell the men to fire faster and not give up the ship. - Captain James Lawrence

I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting. - Mark Twain

Liberty: One of Imagination's most previous possessions. - Ambrose Bierce

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion. - Noam Chomsky

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

I've always enjoyed living in a fantasy world, daydreaming. - James Duval

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

Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years. - Sheila Ballantyne

I get my exercise running to the funerals of my friends who exercise. - Barry Gray

My metabolism stinks. I can gain weight just listening to dinner music. - Ron Dentinger

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

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

Wouldn't exercise be more fun if calories screamed while you burned them? - Bill Murray

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

I have to exercise early in the morning before my brain figures out what I'm doing. - Marsha Doble

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

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

Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place. - Sarah Dessen

That's what storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again. - Walt Disney

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

Bountiful: What Captain Bligh declared after learning that one more breadfruit tree would sink his ship - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his weight. - Theodore Roosevelt

I still play hockey every now and then, and I still golf. But my biggest exercise is walking my big dog in the park every day. - Michael J. Fox

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

Most people stand on the dock of life waiting for their ship to come in when deep down inside they know it has never left port. - Zig Ziglar

When you talk about fantasy, the usual problem is that whilst you've got the world of imagination, there are no controlling forces. - Raymond E. Feist

To win back my youth... There is nothing I wouldn't do - except take exercise, get up early, or be a useful member of the community. - Oscar Wilde