Lifting a Cruise Ship

Imagination rules the world. - Napoleon

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

The man with no imagination has no wings. - Muhammad Ali

Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight. - Tom Stoppard

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

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

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

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

God did not intend religion to be an exercise club. - Naguib Mahfouz

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

An Irishman's heart is nothing but his imagination. - George Bernard Shaw

Big ships can only be launched where the water is deep. - Amish Saying

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

There are certain things you just don't do in fantasy. - J K Rowling

The Possible's slow fuse is lit
By the Imagination. - Emily Dickinson

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

Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions. - Albert Einstein

I like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights. - Joel Osteen

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

I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy. - Marilyn Monroe

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

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

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

A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last. - Helen Rowland

Perspective is to painting what the bridle is to the horse, the rudder to a ship. - Leonardo da Vinci

We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship. - Omar N Bradley

When I was a child, I wanted to raise horses in Wyoming or be a cabin boy on a pirate ship. - Sadie Jones

Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape. - Terry Pratchett

You know you've reached middle age when your weightlifting consists merely of standing up. - Bob Hope

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

If you turn the imagination loose like a hunting dog, it will often return with the bird in its mouth. - William Maxwell

I think Nature's imagination is so much greater than man's, she's never gonna let us relax! - Richard P Feynman

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

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

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

Every person on this earth is full of great possibilities that can be realized through imagination, effort, and perseverance. - Scott B Kaufman

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

"Exercise" is such a dirty word in my household that whenever I even think of it, I wash my mouth out with chocolate. - Leonore Fleischer

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