Lifting a Cruise Ship

Everyone needs a fantasy. - Andy Warhol

Like ships that clash in the night. - Archie Bunker

An idea is salvation by imagination. - Frank Lloyd Wright

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Oscar Wilde

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

A strong imagination begetteth opportunity. - Michel de Montaigne

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

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

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

My single-minded aim is to give existence to fantasy. - Claes Oldenburg

An Irishman's heart is nothing but his imagination. - George Bernard Shaw

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

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

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

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

A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. - John Shedd

I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy. - Marilyn Monroe

Every time I feel like exercise, I lie down until the feeling passes. - Robert Hutchins

It is the starved imagination, not the well-nourished, that is afraid. - E.M. Forster

My metabolism stinks. I can gain weight just listening to dinner music. - Ron Dentinger

I gotta lose weight, Edith. I hope you remembered my diuretic cottage cheese. - Archie Bunker

Exercise is king, nutrition is queen. Put them together and you have a kingdom. - Jack LaLanne

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

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

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

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

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

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

My wife is on a diet. Coconuts and bananas. She hasn't lost any weight, but she can sure climb a tree. - Henny Youngman

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

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience. - John Updike

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

Every act of perception is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination. - Gerard M. Edelman

"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

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

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

The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth - something very difficult for a politician. Or watch your food - just watch it, don't eat it. - Edward I Kock