Circle Spirals
Illusion between the lines
QuotaBillsEveryone needs a fantasy. - Andy Warhol
Imagination is the eye of the soul. - Joseph Joubert
Imagination is intelligence having fun. - George Scialabra
Where there is no imagination there is no horror. - Arthur Conan Doyle
My single-minded aim is to give existence to fantasy. - Claes Oldenburg
An Irishman's heart is nothing but his imagination. - George Bernard Shaw
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
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. - Albert Einstein
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. - Miguel de Unamuno
I'm capable of anything, my imagination can give me wings. - Nas
The success that the Tolkien books had redefined modern fantasy. - George R.R. Martin
Never say never because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion. - Michael Jordan
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future. - Charles F. Kettering
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
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions. - Albert Einstein
Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. - C S Lewis
The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are. - C S Lewis
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. - James Russel Lowell
Imagination, of course, can open any door - turn the key and let terror walk right in. - Truman Capote
Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure. - Scott Adams
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
There's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons. - Fred Saberhagen
I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination. - Cornelia Funke
Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape. - Terry Pratchett
The illusion that the times that were are better than those that are has probably pervaded all ages. - Horace Greeley
That's what storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again. - Walt Disney
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination. - John Keats
Never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible. - Pearl Bailey
What your mind sees when you close your eyes marks the entrance to an endless universe: your imagination. - Stephen Helmes
Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. - Terry Pratchett
A dreamer and a thinker understood the value of imagination. He called his imagination a "holy curiosity." - Albert Einstein
Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. - Gloria Steinem
The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. - Samuel Johnson
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
When you talk about fantasy, the usual problem is that whilst you've got the world of imagination, there are no controlling forces. - Raymond E. Feist
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
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