Playing Mantis

I was playing a character. - Paris Hilton

Imagination rules the world. - Napoleon

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

Imagination is more important than knowledge. - Albert Einstein

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

No, I look at the Senators and pray for the country. - Edward Everett Hale

An Irishman's heart is nothing but his imagination. - George Bernard Shaw

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

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

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. - Voltaire

My wife is such a bad cook, in my house we pray after the meal. - Rodney Dangerfield

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

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

I like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights. - Joel Osteen

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

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

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

You pray for the hungry. Then you feed them. That's how prayer works. - Pope Francis

When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him. - Norman Vincent Peale

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

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. - George Bernard Shaw

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

If all the year were playing holidays,
To sport would be as tedious as to work. - William Shakespeare

Xenophobia doesn't benefit anybody unless you're playing high stakes Scrabble. - Dennis Miller

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

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

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

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

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

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

Every person on this earth is full of great possibilities that can be realized through imagination, effort, and perseverance. - Scott B Kaufman

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most? - Mark Twain

Life is a child playing around your feet, a tool you hold firmly in your grip, a bench you sit down upon in the evening, in your garden. - Jean Anouilh

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

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

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