Bouncing Shoreline

A pigment of your imagination - Archie Bunker

Imagination is the eye of the soul. - Joseph Joubert

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Oscar Wilde

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

Before imagination can flow, you must let go. - 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 great instrument of moral good is the imagination. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

There are certain things you just don't do in fantasy. - J K Rowling

The Possible's slow fuse is lit
By the Imagination. - Emily Dickinson

The success that the Tolkien books had redefined modern fantasy. - George R.R. Martin

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates. - Oscar Wilde

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

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

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

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

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

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

You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. - Christopher Columbus

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. - James Russel Lowell

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

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

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. - Andre Gide

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

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. - John Updike

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

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

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

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

A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate. - Donald Trump

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 was the equivalent of a 98 pound weakling. I would go to the beach and people would throw copies of Byron in my face! - Robin Williams

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

One supreme fact which I have discovered is that it is not willpower but imagination that creates. Imagination creates reality. - Richard Wagner

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

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

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