The Explanation

Everyone needs a fantasy. - Andy Warhol

Imagination is the eye of the soul. - Joseph Joubert

You have to hold onto your fantasy. - Betsey Johnson

Imagination means nothing without doing. - Charlie Chaplin

Imagination is more important than knowledge. - Albert Einstein

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

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

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. - Jules de Gaultier

Evolution: One of the stupidest theories of Western life. - Malcolm Muggeridge

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

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

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

Most of the dinosaur specimens we find represent subadult sizes. - Jack Horner

Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish. - Minna Antrim

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination. - Voltaire

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

A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache. - Catherine the Great

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

Women are like elephants to me: nice to look at, but I wouldn't want to own one. - WC Fields

My roommate got a pet elephant. Then it got lost. It's in the apartment somewhere. - Steven Wright

Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them. - Stephen Covey

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination. - Christopher Isherwood

One morning I shot an elephant in my pyjamas.
How he got into my pyjamas I'll never know. - Groucho Marx

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination. - John Keats

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

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

Fatalism is the creed of a will that is dying to its possibilities and seeks to drag the imagination with it. - Ravi Zacharias

The mathematician is entirely free, within the limits of the imagination, to construct what worlds he pleases. - J.W.N. Sullivan

A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia. - Jack Horner

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

Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination. - Tim Robbins

The public has an appetite for anything about imagination: anything that is far away from reality as is creatively possible. - Steven Spielberg

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

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

Dogs laugh, but the laugh with their tails. What puts man in a higher state of evolution is that he has got his laugh on the right end. - Max Eastman

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