Bouncing Shoreline

Everyone needs a fantasy. - Andy Warhol

Imagination is the eye of the soul. - Joseph Joubert

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Oscar Wilde

Imagination is more important than knowledge. - Albert Einstein

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

Live out of your imagination, not your history. - Stephen R. Covey

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

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Let me be an ocean and let me kiss you as many times as the ocean kisses the shore. - Debasish Mridha

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

There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore looking like an idiot. - Steven Wright

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

The fantasy of every Australian man is to have two women - one cleaning and the other dusting. - Maurenn Murphy

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

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

Grilling outside with my parents at the Jersey shore. We would grill lobster and corn in the summer. - Bobby Flay

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

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

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

The mathematician is entirely free, within the limits of the imagination, to construct what worlds he pleases. - J.W.N. Sullivan

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

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable. - Walt Disney

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

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

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

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

We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die. - W H Auden

A mere 40 years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about. - Newt Gingrich

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