Sea Girl

Where there is a sea there are pirates. - Greek Proverb

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. - Publilius Syrus

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us. - Franz Kafka

Who is staring at the sea is already sailing a little. - Paul Carvel

The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination. - George Bernard Shaw

I'm walking backwards for Christmas Across the Irish Sea. - Spike Milligan

There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Live in the sunshine
Swim in the sea
Drink the wild air - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Grandma, thank you for being my anchor in this stormy sea of life. - Unknown

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

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

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

Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly. - Morticia Addams

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

A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache. - Catherine the Great

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

I actually have a stash of wigs for Halloween. But only for that. Not to play dress-up. - Alexa Vega

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

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. - Dr. Seuss

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. - Irish Murdoch

The fantasy of every Australian man is to have two women - one cleaning and the other dusting. - Maurenn Murphy

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

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

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. - John Updike

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

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

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

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

Edgy is fine - I'm not a prude by any stretch of the imagination - but what's wrong with a good ol' belly laugh? - Carol Burnett

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is. - Horace Walpole

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

The trout enjoys the river,
The whale enjoys the sea,
And dogs love most an old lamp-post,
But you're my cup of tea. - W H Auden

Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Morals are not, like bacon, to be cured by hanging; nor, like wine, to be improved by sea voyages; nor, like honey, to be preserved in cells. - William Taylor

Fantasy has a dark side to it. It also has a light hemisphere - the power of the human imagination to keep going, to imagine a better tomorrow. - Tim O'Brien

Music is amoral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. - Plato