Maiden Rock Illusion

Everyone needs a fantasy. - Andy Warhol

Imagination is the eye of the soul. - Joseph Joubert

The power of imagination makes us infinite. - John Muir

A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination. - Arthur Pinero

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock. - Sigmund Freud

Everybody talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll. - Keith Richards

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. - Daniel J. Boorstin

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure. - Scott Adams

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

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination. - Christopher Isherwood

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

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

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

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

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

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. - Simone Weil

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything. - Plato

A dreamer and a thinker understood the value of imagination. He called his imagination a "holy curiosity." - Albert Einstein

Rock is so much fun. That's what it's all about - filling up the chest cavities and empty kneecaps and elbows. - Jimi Hendrix

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

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

My imagination persisted in sticking horrors into the dark- so I stuck my imagination into the dark instead, and let it look out at me. - F Scott Fitzgerald

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

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

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

Fantasy has a dark side to it. It also has a light hemisphere - the power of the human imagination to keep going, to imagine a better tomorrow. - Tim O'Brien