Circle Spirals

Imagination rules the world. - Napoleon

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

Imagination is more important than knowledge. - Albert Einstein

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

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

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

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. - Thomas Edison

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

I'm not a passive person by any stretch of the imagination. - Courteney Cox

Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish. - Minna Antrim

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

I always had a fantasy of being a chef, because I like kitchen life. - Geoffrey Rush

Logic will get you from A to Z. Imagination will take you everywhere. - Albert Einstein

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

Design is about discipline and reality, not about fantasy beyond reality. - Albert Hadley

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

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

Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow, and fantasy. - Walt Disney

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

Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life. - Adele Brookman

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

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

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

Such a figure, that imagination cannot form an idea of a fury from hell, to look more frightful. - Charles Johnson

It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw. - Damien Hirst

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

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

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

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

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

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

One supreme fact which I have discovered is that it is not willpower but imagination that creates. Imagination creates reality. - Richard Wagner

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

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

Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need. - Tom Robbins

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

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward. - Robert Frost