Holding On

You have to hold onto your fantasy. - Betsey Johnson

The man with no imagination has no wings. - Muhammad Ali

Inflation: everyone's illusion of wealth - Unknown

Imagination is more important than knowledge. - Albert Einstein

A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination. - Arthur Pinero

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

My single-minded aim is to give existence to fantasy. - Claes Oldenburg

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

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. - Barbara De Angelis

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

I always had a fantasy of being a chef, because I like kitchen life. - Geoffrey Rush

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

The art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. - Henry H Ellis

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

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

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

Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go. - Hermann Hesse

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

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

He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts. - Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

Rome didn't create an Empire by holding meetings - they did it by killing their enemies. - Chris Johnson

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet. - Woody Allen

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

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything. - Plato

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination. - Carl Jung

The mathematician is entirely free, within the limits of the imagination, to construct what worlds he pleases. - J.W.N. Sullivan

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

Gardening: 1. A matter of enthusiasm holding up until your back gets used to it; 2. Man's effort to improve his lot. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

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

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

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

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

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. - Judith Viorst

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

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

Schools must stop being holding pens to keep energetic young people off the job market and off the streets. We stretch puberty out a long, long time. - Toni Morrison