The Explanation

Everyone needs a fantasy. - Andy Warhol

A pigment of your imagination - Archie Bunker

Women and elephants never forget. - Dorothy Parker

Done the elephants, done the poverty. - Phil Tufnell

Imagination is intelligence having fun. - George Scialabra

Inflation: everyone's illusion of wealth - Unknown

A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination. - Arthur Pinero

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

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

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality. - Seneca

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

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

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. - Ludwig Borne

Evolution: One of the stupidest theories of Western life. - Malcolm Muggeridge

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

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

Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions. - Albert Einstein

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

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

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

I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met. - Herb Caen

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions. - Albert Einstein

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

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

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

There's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons. - Fred Saberhagen

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination. - Christopher Isherwood

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is. - Horace Walpole

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

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable. - Carl Jung

Fantasy has a dark side to it. It also has a light hemisphere - the power of the human imagination to keep going, to imagine a better tomorrow. - Tim O'Brien