The Explanation

Imagination rules the world. - Napoleon

Done the elephants, done the poverty. - Phil Tufnell

Imagination is more important than knowledge. - Albert Einstein

Anything related to elephants is irrelephant. - Unknown

If history repeats itself, I am so getting a dinosaur! - Unknown

You have to look at history as an evolution of society. - Jean Chretien

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

The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination. - George Bernard Shaw

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

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

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

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

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

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

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. - Albert Einstein

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

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

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

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. - George Bernard Shaw

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

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. - Daniel J. Boorstin

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. - Dr. Seuss

I want flowers, I don't want to text. What does that make me? What kind of dinosaur am I? - Jennifer Garner

Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape. - Terry Pratchett

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

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

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist but you have ceased to live. - Mark Twain

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet. - Woody Allen

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

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

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

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

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

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable. - Walt Disney

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

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

Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. - Gloria Steinem

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

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

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