Which One’s Real?

You have to hold onto your fantasy. - Betsey Johnson

An idea is salvation by imagination. - Frank Lloyd Wright

Worry is simply imagination gone awry. - Peter Alwinson

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. - Douglas Adams

A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination. - Arthur Pinero

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

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

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

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

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. - Jules de Gaultier

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion. - Noam Chomsky

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

He who has imagination without learning, has wings and no feet. - Joseph Joubert

I've always enjoyed living in a fantasy world, daydreaming. - James Duval

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates. - Oscar Wilde

Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions. - Albert Einstein

Our separation from each other is an optical illusion of consciousness. - Albert Einstein

Never say never because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion. - Michael Jordan

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. - Mark Twain

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist but you have ceased to live. - Mark Twain

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. - Simone Weil

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything. - Plato

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

A dreamer and a thinker understood the value of imagination. He called his imagination a "holy curiosity." - Albert Einstein

The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy. - Lionel Trilling

An expert problem solver must be endowed with two incompatible qualities: a restless imagination and a patient pertinacity. - Howard Eves

In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called 'licking the earth.' - Malcolm Muggeridge

When you talk about fantasy, the usual problem is that whilst you've got the world of imagination, there are no controlling forces. - Raymond E. Feist

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

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