Bouncing Shoreline

A strong imagination begetteth opportunity. - Michel de Montaigne

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

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

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

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

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but imagination. - Immanuel Kant

My single-minded aim is to give existence to fantasy. - Claes Oldenburg

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

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

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

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

Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish. - Minna Antrim

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

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. - C S Lewis

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

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

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

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

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. - Dr. Seuss

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

Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. - Alan Alda

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

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

That's what storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again. - Walt Disney

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

Why don't you ever hear of a lawyer getting attacked by a shark at the beach? Professional courtesy. - Thomas F Shubnell

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

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

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. - Terry Pratchett

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

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

Every person on this earth is full of great possibilities that can be realized through imagination, effort, and perseverance. - Scott B Kaufman

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore. - Dale Carnegie

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

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

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