Bouncing Shoreline

An idea is salvation by imagination. - Frank Lloyd Wright

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Oscar Wilde

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

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

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

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

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. - Albert Einstein

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

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

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

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. - Mark Twain

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

He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts. - Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Let me be an ocean and let me kiss you as many times as the ocean kisses the shore. - Debasish Mridha

You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. - Christopher Columbus

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. - James Russel Lowell

There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore looking like an idiot. - Steven Wright

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

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

Our fears are more numerous than our dangers, and we suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca

The illusion that the times that were are better than those that are has probably pervaded all ages. - Horace Greeley

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

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

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

What your mind sees when you close your eyes marks the entrance to an endless universe: your imagination. - Stephen Helmes

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

Sailor: 1. A man who makes his living on water but never touches it on shore; 2. A wolf in ship's clothing. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

May you keep dreaming until the day you die. May imagination overtake memory. May you die young at a ripe old age. - Mark Batterson

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

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

Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. - Gloria Steinem

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore. - Dale Carnegie

Who is the happier man: he who has braved the storm of life and lived, or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed? - Hunter S Thompson

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

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

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

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever. - Noam Chomsky