The Explanation

A pigment of your imagination - Archie Bunker

Women and elephants never forget. - Dorothy Parker

Done the elephants, done the poverty. - Phil Tufnell

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Oscar Wilde

Imagination means nothing without doing. - Charlie Chaplin

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. - Douglas Adams

Inflation: everyone's illusion of wealth - Unknown

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

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. - H L Mencken

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

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

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

I'm capable of anything, my imagination can give me wings. - Nas

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

I always had a fantasy of being a chef, because I like kitchen life. - Geoffrey Rush

I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy. - Marilyn Monroe

Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur. - Harold MacMillan

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

The reality is you either step into the future, or you become a dinosaur. - M Shadows

Design is about discipline and reality, not about fantasy beyond reality. - Albert Hadley

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

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

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

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

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

Such a figure, that imagination cannot form an idea of a fury from hell, to look more frightful. - Charles Johnson

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

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

I like grey characters; fantasy for too long has been focused on very stereotypical heroes and villains. - George R.R. Martin

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

You describe the elephant by its size, but the mosquito by its impact. Even the smallest thing has an impact. - Celia Apeagyei-Collins

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

An expert problem solver must be endowed with two incompatible qualities: a restless imagination and a patient pertinacity. - Howard Eves

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

Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need. - Tom Robbins