The Explanation

Women and elephants never forget. - Dorothy Parker

Done the elephants, done the poverty. - Phil Tufnell

Worry is simply imagination gone awry. - Peter Alwinson

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Oscar Wilde

In rock music terms I'm like a dinosaur. - Belinda Carlisle

Inflation: everyone's illusion of wealth - Unknown

Before imagination can flow, you must let go. - Unknown

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

Anything related to elephants is irrelephant. - Unknown

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Our separation from each other is an optical illusion of consciousness. - 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

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

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

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

Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment. - Isabel Allende

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

I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination. - Cornelia Funke

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it. - Ursula K. Le Guin

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

When you have an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run. - Abraham Lincoln

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

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

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

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

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

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination. - Edmund Burke

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

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