Playing Mantis

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

Imagination rules the world. - Napoleon

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

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

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

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

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

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. - Miguel de Unamuno

I'm not a passive person by any stretch of the imagination. - Courteney Cox

If I'm going to Hell, I'm going there playing the piano. - Jerry Lee Lewis

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

Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish. - Minna Antrim

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

Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly. - Morticia Addams

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

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

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

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

Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing. - Oliver W. Holmes

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. - Dr. Seuss

It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf. - Robert Lynd

I stayed up all night playing poker with tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died. - Steven Wright

I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination. - Cornelia Funke

Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape. - Terry Pratchett

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

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination. - Ernest Hemingway

Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found that out. - Mark Twain

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

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

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

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. - Terry Pratchett

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

Edgy is fine - I'm not a prude by any stretch of the imagination - but what's wrong with a good ol' belly laugh? - Carol Burnett

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

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

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

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