Moving Walls

Imagination rules the world. - Napoleon

Imagination is the eye of the soul. - Joseph Joubert

An idea is salvation by imagination. - Frank Lloyd Wright

Worry is a waste of the imagination. - Unknown

Imagination is intelligence having fun. - George Scialabra

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

The power of imagination makes us infinite. - John Muir

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

Noise creates illusions. Silence brings truth. - Maxime Lagace

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

What a strange illusion to suppose that beauty is goodness. - Leo Tolstoy

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

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

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

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

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

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. - Oscar Wilde

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

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

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. - Daniel J. Boorstin

Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment. - Isabel Allende

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

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

Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out. - Criss Jami

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

If you turn the imagination loose like a hunting dog, it will often return with the bird in its mouth. - William Maxwell

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

Dreams or illusions, call them what you will, they lift us from the commonplace of life to better things. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

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

Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination. - Tim Robbins

An expert problem solver must be endowed with two incompatible qualities: a restless imagination and a patient pertinacity. - Howard Eves

In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called 'licking the earth.' - Malcolm Muggeridge

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

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

Stretching the capabilities of my imagination is a crucial aspect of writing fiction; you could think of it as a mental form of athleticism. - Julia Glass