Foiled Again

A pigment of your imagination - Archie Bunker

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

Chop your own path. Get off the car track. - A.Y. Jackson

A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination. - Arthur Pinero

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

Auto racing began 5 minutes after the second car was built. - Henry Ford

There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I had to stop driving my car for a while - the tires got dizzy. - Steven Wright

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

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

I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy. - Marilyn Monroe

It is sometimes as dangerous to be run into by a microbe as by a trolley car. - J.J. Walsh

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

You don't have to carry a designer bag that costs more than a car to look cool. - Kesha

The lead car is absolutely unique, except for the one behind it which is identical. - Murray Walker

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. - James Russel Lowell

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

Imagination, of course, can open any door - turn the key and let terror walk right in. - Truman Capote

A guy knows he’s in love when he loses interest in his car for a couple of days. - Tim Allen

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

Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them. - Stephen Covey

The dent in his car is hardly cold and he's coming over here to claim his pound of fish. - Archie Bunker

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

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

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist but you have ceased to live. - Mark Twain

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

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

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

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power. - Arthur C. Clarke

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

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

I hooked up my accelerator pedal in my car to my brake lights. I hit the gas, people behind me stop, and I'm gone. - Steven Wright

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

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

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. - Samuel Johnson

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

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

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable. - Carl Jung