Shade Stockings

A strong imagination begetteth opportunity. - Michel de Montaigne

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

A girl with cotton stockings never sees a mouse. - American Proverb

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

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

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. - Ludwig Borne

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

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

With a treehouse and a little imagination, we can go anywhere. - Unknown

He who has imagination without learning, has wings and no feet. - Joseph Joubert

Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions. - Albert Einstein

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

Never say never because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion. - Michael Jordan

Design is about discipline and reality, not about fantasy beyond reality. - Albert Hadley

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. - John Dewey

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. - C S Lewis

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

Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life. - Adele Brookman

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

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. - Warren Buffett

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

There's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons. - Fred Saberhagen

Smart people that like good health spend several hours outdoors daily in the shade of trees. - Steven Magee

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

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

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

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

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

The reason there are so many tree-lined boulevards in Paris is so the German army can march in the shade. - George S Patton

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

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

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

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

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

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

When you talk about fantasy, the usual problem is that whilst you've got the world of imagination, there are no controlling forces. - Raymond E. Feist

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

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever. - Noam Chomsky