Frogs Switch

Theories pass. The frog remains. - Jean Rostand

An idea is salvation by imagination. - Frank Lloyd Wright

I'm a tadpole trying to be a frog. - Toni Braxton

The power of imagination makes us infinite. - John Muir

A strong imagination begetteth opportunity. - Michel de Montaigne

Inflation: everyone's illusion of wealth - Unknown

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

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

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. - H L Mencken

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

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. - Ludwig Borne

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

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

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. - Miguel de Unamuno

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

I'm capable of anything, my imagination can give me wings. - Nas

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

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

Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it. - Lloyd Alexander

Don't be a fish; be a frog. Swim in the water and jump when you hit ground. - Kim Young-ha

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

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

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it. - E.B. White

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

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination. - Ernest Hemingway

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

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

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

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable. - Walt Disney

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

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

Edgy is fine - I'm not a prude by any stretch of the imagination - but what's wrong with a good ol' belly laugh? - Carol Burnett

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

You will recognize your own path when you come upon it because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need. - Sara Teasdale

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

Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need. - Tom Robbins

Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind. - E.B. White

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