Reflection

Everyone needs a fantasy. - Andy Warhol

An idea is salvation by imagination. - Frank Lloyd Wright

The power of imagination makes us infinite. - John Muir

A strong imagination begetteth opportunity. - Michel de Montaigne

Before imagination can flow, you must let go. - Unknown

Even dirt glitters when the sun is shining upon it. - Goethe

May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears. - Nelson Mandela

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

Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides. - Rita Mae Brown

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

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

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. - Jules de Gaultier

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

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

With a treehouse and a little imagination, we can go anywhere. - Unknown

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

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

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

Man either goes forward in imagination or remains imprisoned in his senses. - Unknown

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. - Anton Chekhov

Leap year gives me extra time to reflect on how unproductive I am with extra time. - Homer Simpson

Imagination, of course, can open any door - turn the key and let terror walk right in. - Truman Capote

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. - Carl Sagan

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

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

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

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination. - John Keats

You moon the wrong person at an office party and suddenly you're not professional anymore. - Jeff Foxworthy

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

I like grey characters; fantasy for too long has been focused on very stereotypical heroes and villains. - George R.R. Martin

The imagination exercises a powerful influence over every act of sense, thought, reason, over every idea. - Latin Proverb

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

When witches go riding and black cats are seen,
The moon laughs and whispers, 'tis near Halloween. - Unknown

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

The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy. - Lionel Trilling

What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth. - Norman Cousins

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

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

Stretching the capabilities of my imagination is a crucial aspect of writing fiction; you could think of it as a mental form of athleticism. - Julia Glass