Playing Mantis

I was playing a character. - Paris Hilton

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Oscar Wilde

A strong imagination begetteth opportunity. - Michel de Montaigne

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart. - Ruth Graham

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

Champions keep playing until they get it right. - Billie Jean King

There are not many Irish people playing tennis. - Goran Ivanisevic

If we act like prey, they’ll act like predators. - Alyxandra Harvey

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

There are certain things you just don't do in fantasy. - J K Rowling

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

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

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

Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions. - Albert Einstein

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

A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last. - Helen Rowland

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

A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache. - Catherine the Great

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

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

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

I never looked at hockey as work. Now that I'd finished playing, I had to go to work. - Bobby Orr

Playing Shakespeare is so tiring. You never get a chance to sit down unless you're a king. - Josephine Hull

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

The fantasy of every Australian man is to have two women - one cleaning and the other dusting. - Maurenn Murphy

Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck. - Venus Williams

Our fears are more numerous than our dangers, and we suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca

I am a lizard, a shark, a heat-seeking panther. I want to be Bob Denver on acid playing the accordion. - Nicolas Cage

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

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. - Donald Trump

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

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

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

Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. - Gloria Steinem

Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. - I Thessalonians 5:16-18

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

Wolves directly affect the entire ecosystem, not just moose populations, their main prey, because less moose equals more tree growth. - Rolf Peterson

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

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