Lifting a Cruise Ship

I don't give a ship! - Unknown

An idea is salvation by imagination. - Frank Lloyd Wright

Worry is a waste of the imagination. - Unknown

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

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

The power of imagination makes us infinite. - John Muir

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

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

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

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

There are certain things you just don't do in fantasy. - J K Rowling

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

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

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

I'm not a passive person by any stretch of the imagination. - Courteney Cox

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life. - Robert Louis Stevenson

The ship is safest when it is in port, but that's not what ships were built for. - Paulo Coelho

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. - Albert Einstein

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

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

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

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight. - Josh Billings

I'm always astonished by a forest. It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. - Gunter Grass

One supreme fact which I have discovered is that it is not willpower but imagination that creates. Imagination creates reality. - Richard Wagner

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

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

My imagination persisted in sticking horrors into the dark- so I stuck my imagination into the dark instead, and let it look out at me. - F Scott Fitzgerald

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable. - Carl Jung

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