The Explanation

Everyone needs a fantasy. - Andy Warhol

Imagination rules the world. - Napoleon

Women and elephants never forget. - Dorothy Parker

Imagination is the eye of the soul. - Joseph Joubert

An idea is salvation by imagination. - Frank Lloyd Wright

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

A strong imagination begetteth opportunity. - Michel de Montaigne

Inflation: everyone's illusion of wealth - Unknown

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

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

An Irishman's heart is nothing but his imagination. - George Bernard Shaw

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

With a treehouse and a little imagination, we can go anywhere. - Unknown

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

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

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

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

A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last. - Helen Rowland

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

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

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

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. - Carl Sagan

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

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

Our fears are more numerous than our dangers, and we suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca

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

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

His wallet is more capacious than an elephant's scrotum and just as difficult to get your hands on. - Blackadder

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

There's no environment I can think of that would have remained constant enough to preserve dinosaur DNA. - Hendrik Poinar

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

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

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

The evolution of playground equipment has been to this ever safer, less challenging, less interesting assemblies of equipment. - Gever Tulley

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

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