The Explanation

Imagination is the eye of the soul. - Joseph Joubert

You have to hold onto your fantasy. - Betsey Johnson

An idea is salvation by imagination. - Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Imagination is more important than knowledge. - Albert Einstein

The human race is governed by its imagination. - Napoleon Bonaparte

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

The elephant does not limp when walking on thorns. - African Proverb

Anything related to elephants is irrelephant. - Unknown

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

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. - Thomas Edison

When two elephants fight it is the grass that gets trampled. - African Proverb

We all have a dinosaur deep within us just trying to get out. - Colin Mochrie

If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands? - Milton Berle

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

It is the starved imagination, not the well-nourished, that is afraid. - E.M. Forster

Never say never because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion. - Michael Jordan

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

Before you eat the elephant, make sure you know what parts you want to eat. - Todd Stocker

All things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least. - C S Lewis

He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts. - Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

Like the cosmetics industry, the securities business is engaged in selling illusion. - Paul Samuelson

Imagination, of course, can open any door - turn the key and let terror walk right in. - Truman Capote

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

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. - Albert Einstein

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

If you turn the imagination loose like a hunting dog, it will often return with the bird in its mouth. - William Maxwell

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

What your mind sees when you close your eyes marks the entrance to an endless universe: your imagination. - Stephen Helmes

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

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

May you keep dreaming until the day you die. May imagination overtake memory. May you die young at a ripe old age. - Mark Batterson

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

In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called 'licking the earth.' - Malcolm Muggeridge

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

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

Stretching the capabilities of my imagination is a crucial aspect of writing fiction; you could think of it as a mental form of athleticism. - Julia Glass

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever. - Noam Chomsky