Lifting a Cruise Ship

Imagination is the eye of the soul. - Joseph Joubert

Eat right, exercise regularly, die anyway. - Unknown

The power of imagination makes us infinite. - John Muir

Tears at times have all the weight of speech. - Ovid

My weight is perfect for my height - which varies. - Unknown

I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me. - Mark Twain

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. - Joseph Addison

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

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

The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. - Henry Ward Beecher

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

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. - Thomas Edison

I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting. - Mark Twain

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

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

Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish. - Minna Antrim

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

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

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

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

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now. - Martin Luther King Jr.

A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache. - Catherine the Great

You can't lose weight by talking about it. You have to keep your mouth shut. - Old Farmer's Almanac

Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the towers of Ilium? - Christopher Marlowe

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

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

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

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever. - Thomas Aquinas

No one would have ever crossed the ocean if they could have gotten off the ship in the storm. - Charles F. Ketterling

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination. - Christopher Isherwood

Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape. - Terry Pratchett

It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw. - Damien Hirst

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind. - Jacques Martin Barzun

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable. - Walt Disney

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

Confidence is beautiful, no matter your size, no matter your weight. Be confident in who you are and you'll be beautiful. - Unknown

"Exercise" is such a dirty word in my household that whenever I even think of it, I wash my mouth out with chocolate. - Leonore Fleischer

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

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