Playing Mantis

An idea is salvation by imagination. - Frank Lloyd Wright

We have to pray on behalf of those who do not pray. - Mother Teresa

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. - H L Mencken

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

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one. - Terry Pratchett

The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination. - George Bernard Shaw

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

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

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

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

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

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

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. - Mark Twain

Where beams of imagination play,
The memory's soft figures melt away. - Alexander Pope

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

If you're not failing now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe. - Woody Allen

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

Like the cosmetics industry, the securities business is engaged in selling illusion. - Paul Samuelson

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. - Carl Sagan

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

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

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

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

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

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. - Simone Weil

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

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

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

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination. - Edmund Burke

It's a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can't stop playing the game the way you've always played it. - Richard M Nixon

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

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

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

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

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