Maid Dust

Excuse My Dust - Dorothy Parker

Imagination rules the world. - Napoleon

When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum. - Desmond Tutu

A strong imagination begetteth opportunity. - Michel de Montaigne

A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination. - Arthur Pinero

Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust. - The Book of Common Prayer

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

Housekeeping is like being caught in a revolving door. - Marcelene Cox

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

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

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

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

He is a fool that kisseth the maid when he may kiss the mistress. - English Proverb

When your wife asks what's on TV, dust is not the right answer. - Unknown

Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years. - Sheila Ballantyne

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. - Oscar Wilde

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

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

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

You can't sweep other people off their feet if you can't be swept off your own. - Clarence Day

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

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

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

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

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power. - Arthur C. Clarke

I'm always astonished by a forest. It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. - Gunter Grass

Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination. - Tim Robbins

In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called 'licking the earth.' - Malcolm Muggeridge

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

Every act of perception is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination. - Gerard M. Edelman

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

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

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

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

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion... I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. - Kurt Vonnegut