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Everyone needs a fantasy. - Andy Warhol

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Oscar Wilde

A strong imagination begetteth opportunity. - Michel de Montaigne

A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination. - Arthur Pinero

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

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

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

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

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. - Albert Einstein

I always had a fantasy of being a chef, because I like kitchen life. - Geoffrey Rush

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

A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last. - Helen Rowland

Design is about discipline and reality, not about fantasy beyond reality. - Albert Hadley

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

Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow, and fantasy. - Walt Disney

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

Being born with a pair of beady eyes was the best thing that ever happened to me. - Lee van Cleef

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

Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life. - Adele Brookman

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination. - Christopher Isherwood

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

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

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

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

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet. - Woody Allen

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

I've never run a marathon because I haven't bought a pair of shorts and arrived at the start line. - Sue Perkins

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination. - Carl Jung

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

Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. - Gloria Steinem

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

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

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

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

Fantasy has a dark side to it. It also has a light hemisphere - the power of the human imagination to keep going, to imagine a better tomorrow. - Tim O'Brien