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Imagination is intelligence having fun. - George Scialabra

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Oscar Wilde

The man with no imagination has no wings. - Muhammad Ali

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

A strong imagination begetteth opportunity. - Michel de Montaigne

Inflation: everyone's illusion of wealth - Unknown

Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre. - Joseph Joubert

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

The possible's slow fuse is lit by the imagination. - Emily Dickinson

The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. - Henry Ward Beecher

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

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

There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Look a pig in its eyes, and understand the truth behind bacon. - Mango Wodzak

I still close my eyes and go home... I can always draw from that. - Dolly Parton

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

It's very strange when the life you never had flashes before your eyes. - Terri Minsky

A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache. - Catherine the Great

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. - John Dewey

I need the starshine of your heavenly eyes,
After the day's great sun. - Charles Hanson Towne

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

A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. - George Santayana

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. - William Shakespeare

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

The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. - Marcel Proust

Men are born with two eyes but with one tongue, in order that they may see twice as much as they say. - C.C. Colton

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

My object in living is to unite
My avocation and my vocation
As my two eyes make one in sight. - Robert Frost

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

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

Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see life with a clearer view again. - Alex Tan

Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration. - Niccolo Machiavelli

I handed in a script last year and the studio didn't change one word. The word they didn't change was on page 87. - Steve Martin

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

My imagination persisted in sticking horrors into the dark- so I stuck my imagination into the dark instead, and let it look out at me. - F Scott Fitzgerald

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

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

I've never been able to grow an organ back," Lana said. "Last time I tried... Let's just hope you don't end up with whip eyes. - Michael Grant