Maiden Rock Illusion

Imagination rules the world. - Napoleon

You have to hold onto your fantasy. - Betsey Johnson

An idea is salvation by imagination. - Frank Lloyd Wright

Imagination means nothing without doing. - Charlie Chaplin

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. - Douglas Adams

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

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

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

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

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

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

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

Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions. - Albert Einstein

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

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

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

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions. - Albert Einstein

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

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

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. - Albert Einstein

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. - Irish Murdoch

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

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

Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out. - Criss Jami

What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere. - Ovid

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

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

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

The mathematician is entirely free, within the limits of the imagination, to construct what worlds he pleases. - J.W.N. Sullivan

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

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

An expert problem solver must be endowed with two incompatible qualities: a restless imagination and a patient pertinacity. - Howard Eves

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

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

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