Lifting a Cruise Ship

Imagination is the eye of the soul. - Joseph Joubert

Imagination means nothing without doing. - Charlie Chaplin

Eat right, exercise regularly, die anyway. - Unknown

Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight. - Tom Stoppard

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

A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination. - Arthur Pinero

Live out of your imagination, not your history. - Stephen Covey

If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it. - Jonathan Winters

I'm not gaining weight. I'm living large. - Unknown

The more you weight the harder you are to kidnap. - Unknown

God did not intend religion to be an exercise club. - Naguib Mahfouz

Tell the men to fire faster and not give up the ship. - Captain James Lawrence

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

I often take exercise. Only yesterday I had breakfast in bed. - Oscar Wilde

Day and night, their frail and crippled ships defy the tempest. - Jorge Luis Borges

I've always enjoyed living in a fantasy world, daydreaming. - James Duval

Jumping At Conclusions: Not half as much exercise as digging for facts - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Our separation from each other is an optical illusion of consciousness. - Albert Einstein

An entire ocean can't sink a ship unless it allows the water inside. - Donna Smith

After exercising I always eat pizza... just kidding. I don't exercise. - Unknown

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

Observe your dog: if he's fat, then you're not getting enough exercise. - Evan Esar

Perspective is to painting what the bridle is to the horse, the rudder to a ship. - Leonardo da Vinci

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. - George Bernard Shaw

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. - Carl Sagan

I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination. - Cornelia Funke

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination. - Ernest Hemingway

Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place. - Sarah Dessen

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

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

Television remote controls encourage couch potatoes to exercise their options while broadening their base. - William Arthur Ward

When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power. - Maggie Gallagher

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

May you keep dreaming until the day you die. May imagination overtake memory. May you die young at a ripe old age. - Mark Batterson

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

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

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

Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't imagine what it might be. - Joyce Carol Oates

Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need. - Tom Robbins