Holding On

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Oscar Wilde

Imagination means nothing without doing. - Charlie Chaplin

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

Imagination is more important than knowledge. - Albert Einstein

Before imagination can flow, you must let go. - Unknown

A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination. - Arthur Pinero

The human race is governed by its imagination. - Napoleon Bonaparte

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality. - Seneca

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

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

Liberty: One of Imagination's most previous possessions. - Ambrose Bierce

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. - Aesop

I'm capable of anything, my imagination can give me wings. - Nas

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

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

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future. - Charles F. Kettering

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

Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world. - Orhan Pamuk

The last time I saw him he was walking down Lover's Lane holding his own hand. - Fred Allen

I like holding the door for people who are far away, so they have to run a little. - Bill Murray

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

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure. - Scott Adams

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 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

Such a figure, that imagination cannot form an idea of a fury from hell, to look more frightful. - Charles Johnson

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

The illusion that the times that were are better than those that are has probably pervaded all ages. - Horace Greeley

That's what storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again. - Walt Disney

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

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

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

People say that forgiving is my flaw, but I really believe that holding grudges and anger is a waste of energy. - Mayte Garcia

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

Let me put it this way. Canada is not so much a country as a holding tank filled with the disgruntled progeny of defeated peoples. - Mordecai Richler

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