Playing Mantis

Love is not love without a violin playing goat. - Julia Roberts

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

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

Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living. - Mother Jones

The Possible's slow fuse is lit
By the Imagination. - Emily Dickinson

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

Are we playing Men's Rules today or do we count every putt? - Unknown

It is best to read the weather forecasts before we pray for rain. - Mark Twain

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

Never pray to win, but to do your best - for God has no favorites. - Dorothy I. Welker

Love is like playing checkers. You have to know which man to move. - Jackie Mabley

It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one. - C S Lewis

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

Work and pray, live on hay, you'll get pie in the sky when you die. - Joe Hill

Our separation from each other is an optical illusion of consciousness. - Albert Einstein

I have spent most of my life playing pool. The rest of it, I have wasted. - Unknown

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it. - Elbert Hubbard

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. - Josh Billings

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

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

All things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least. - C S Lewis

Work as if you were to live a hundred years.
Pray as if you were to die tomorrow. - Benjamin Franklin

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

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

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

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

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

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

Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts. - David Seabury

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination. - Carl Jung

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

Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to awake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings. - Ignace Jan Paderewski

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

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

Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing. - William Arthur Ward

Music is amoral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. - Plato