The Explanation

Women and elephants never forget. - Dorothy Parker

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Oscar Wilde

The man with no imagination has no wings. - Muhammad Ali

The power of imagination makes us infinite. - John Muir

A strong imagination begetteth opportunity. - Michel de Montaigne

Inflation: everyone's illusion of wealth - Unknown

Noise creates illusions. Silence brings truth. - Maxime Lagace

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

The elephant can survive only if forests survive. - Mark Shand

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Man either goes forward in imagination or remains imprisoned in his senses. - Unknown

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future. - Charles F. Kettering

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

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

I've spent three hours hanging upside down while fighting off dinosaur attacks. - Jason O'Mara

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure. - Scott Adams

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. - Irish Murdoch

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

The fantasy of every Australian man is to have two women - one cleaning and the other dusting. - Maurenn Murphy

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

The illusion that the times that were are better than those that are has probably pervaded all ages. - Horace Greeley

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

A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate. - Donald Trump

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

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

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

The dinosaur's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good, an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better. - Eric Johnston

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

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

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