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You have to hold onto your fantasy. - Betsey Johnson

The power of imagination makes us infinite. - John Muir

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

Where there is no imagination there is no horror. - Arthur Conan Doyle

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality. - Seneca

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

The possible's slow fuse is lit by the imagination. - Emily Dickinson

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

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

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion. - Noam Chomsky

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

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

Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years. - Sheila Ballantyne

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. - Oscar Wilde

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

Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly. - Morticia Addams

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

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

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions. - Albert Einstein

He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts. - Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. - James Russel Lowell

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 imagination exercises a powerful influence over every act of sense, thought, reason, over every idea. - Latin Proverb

Dreams or illusions, call them what you will, they lift us from the commonplace of life to better things. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything. - Plato

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination. - Carl Jung

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

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. - Samuel Johnson

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination. - Edmund Burke

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

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

Stretching the capabilities of my imagination is a crucial aspect of writing fiction; you could think of it as a mental form of athleticism. - Julia Glass

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

Fantasy has a dark side to it. It also has a light hemisphere - the power of the human imagination to keep going, to imagine a better tomorrow. - Tim O'Brien

Music is amoral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. - Plato

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever. - Noam Chomsky