Morning Face

Your face is a household word. - Archie Bunker

A strong imagination begetteth opportunity. - Michel de Montaigne

A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination. - Arthur Pinero

His face was filled with broken commandments. - John Masefield

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

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

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

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but imagination. - Immanuel Kant

The possible's slow fuse is lit by the imagination. - Emily Dickinson

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

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. - Ludwig Borne

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face. - George Eliot

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

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

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

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

Watermelon - it's a good fruit. You eat, you drink, you wash your face. - Enrico Caruso

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

I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception. - Groucho Marx

All things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least. - C S Lewis

Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the towers of Ilium? - Christopher Marlowe

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

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

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

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

There's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons. - Fred Saberhagen

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

When I invite a woman to dinner I expect her to look at my face.
That's the price she has to pay. - Groucho Marx

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

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

I have never had to face anything that could overwhelm the native optimism and stubborn perseverance I was blessed with. - Sonia Sotomayor

Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination. - Tim Robbins

In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called 'licking the earth.' - Malcolm Muggeridge

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

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

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

I find that it is not the circumstances in which we are placed, but the spirit in which we face them, that constitutes our comfort. - Elizabeth T. King

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it. - Malcolm X

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable. - Carl Jung