Lifting a Cruise Ship

Imagination is the eye of the soul. - Joseph Joubert

My idea of exercise is a good brisk sit. - Phyllis Diller

Ships are expendable; the whales are not. - Paul Watson

The power of imagination makes us infinite. - John Muir

A strong imagination begetteth opportunity. - Michel de Montaigne

Imagination is more important than knowledge. - Albert Einstein

Didn't he take the exercise tax off cars? - Archie Bunker

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

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

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

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

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

The Possible's slow fuse is lit
By the Imagination. - Emily Dickinson

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

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

Maybe I oughta get one of them priests in to exercise with her. - Archie Bunker

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

A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last. - Helen Rowland

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

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

Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it. - Lloyd Alexander

Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow, and fantasy. - Walt Disney

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

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

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

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

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

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

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order. - John Adams

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

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

Back in my rummy days, I would tremble and shake for hours upon arising. It was the only exercise I got. - WC Fields

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. - Simone Weil

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power. - Arthur C. Clarke

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

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

I still play hockey every now and then, and I still golf. But my biggest exercise is walking my big dog in the park every day. - Michael J. Fox

Most people stand on the dock of life waiting for their ship to come in when deep down inside they know it has never left port. - Zig Ziglar

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast. - Leonardo da Vinci

You will recognize your own path when you come upon it because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need. - Sara Teasdale