Watered Down Illusion

Camouflage: Wise guise. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

You have to hold onto your fantasy. - Betsey Johnson

Suntan: A pigment of your imagination. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Worry is simply imagination gone awry. - Peter Alwinson

Imagination is intelligence having fun. - George Scialabra

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

A strong imagination begetteth opportunity. - Michel de Montaigne

Inflation: everyone's illusion of wealth - Unknown

A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination. - Arthur Pinero

Noise creates illusions. Silence brings truth. - Maxime Lagace

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

Where there is no imagination there is no horror. - Arthur Conan Doyle

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

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

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

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

The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. - Henry Ward Beecher

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. - Jules de Gaultier

Liberty: One of Imagination's most previous possessions. - Ambrose Bierce

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

I'm capable of anything, my imagination can give me wings. - Nas

He who has imagination without learning, has wings and no feet. - Joseph Joubert

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

The success that the Tolkien books had redefined modern fantasy. - George R.R. Martin

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination. - Voltaire

I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy. - Marilyn Monroe

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

Never say never because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion. - Michael Jordan

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

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

Where beams of imagination play,
The memory's soft figures melt away. - Alexander Pope

Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it. - Lloyd Alexander

He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts. - Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

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

Like the cosmetics industry, the securities business is engaged in selling illusion. - Paul Samuelson

Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them. - Stephen Covey

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

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

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

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

If you turn the imagination loose like a hunting dog, it will often return with the bird in its mouth. - William Maxwell

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

I think Nature's imagination is so much greater than man's, she's never gonna let us relax! - Richard P Feynman

I like grey characters; fantasy for too long has been focused on very stereotypical heroes and villains. - George R.R. Martin

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

What your mind sees when you close your eyes marks the entrance to an endless universe: your imagination. - Stephen Helmes

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

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

Fatalism is the creed of a will that is dying to its possibilities and seeks to drag the imagination with it. - Ravi Zacharias

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable. - Walt Disney

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

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

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

The public has an appetite for anything about imagination: anything that is far away from reality as is creatively possible. - Steven Spielberg

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

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

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

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

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever. - Noam Chomsky