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Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Oscar Wilde

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

The power of imagination makes us infinite. - John Muir

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

Don't miss the donut by looking through the hole. - Unknown

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

An Irishman's heart is nothing but his imagination. - George Bernard Shaw

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

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known. - Walt Disney

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. - Thomas Edison

Mouse: An animal which strews its path with fainting women. - Ambrose Bierce

That picture with Lon Chaney - "Of Mouse And Men." - Archie Bunker

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

As the French used to say, "the peace of resistance." - Archie Bunker

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

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

Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly. - Morticia Addams

Where beams of imagination play,
The memory's soft figures melt away. - Alexander Pope

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

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. - George Bernard Shaw

Like the cosmetics industry, the securities business is engaged in selling illusion. - Paul Samuelson

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure. - Scott Adams

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

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

I like spaghetti bolognese, I like baked beans on toast. I hate French food. I hate fancy food. - Simon Cowell

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

Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out. - Criss Jami

Our fears are more numerous than our dangers, and we suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca

I like grey characters; fantasy for too long has been focused on very stereotypical heroes and villains. - George R.R. Martin

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

I had a meal last night. I ordered everything in French - surprised everybody, it was a Chinese restaurant. - Tommy Cooper

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

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

Living in China has made me appreciate my own country, with its tiny, ethnically diverse population of unassuming donut-eaters. - Jan Wong

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

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

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