Best 264 quotes in «fantastic quotes» category

There are... otherwise quite decent people who are so dull of nature that they believe that they must attribute the swift flight of fancy to some illness of the psyche, and thus it happens that this or that writer is said to create not other than while imbibing intoxicating drink or that his fantasies are the result of overexcited nerves and resulting fever. But who can fail to know that, while a state of psychical excitement caused by the one or other stimulant may indeed generate some lucky and brilliant ideas, it can never produce a well-founded, substantial work of art that requires the utmost presence of mind.

(Washington) Irving was only the first of the writers of the American ghostly tale to recognize that the supernatural, exactly because its epistemological status is so difficult to determine, challenged the writer to invent a commensurately sophisticated narrative technique.

True love can happen even if it has to go through centuries until we can find it

(Uncle) would remark that it was impossible to get by without such a (portentous and whimsical) tone when speaking of many things of this world, and especially of the things not entirely of this world.

The shifting sands of the world... show how much the surrealists were drawn towards an interrogation of what reality actually is. Unlike fabulists of whatever hue, there is a materiality in surrealist writing that resolutely keeps it, one might say, 'down to earth'.

This is the beginning of a new era

This world which we like to believe is sane and real is, in truth, absurd and fantastic.

we are living in the world where FANTASTIC BUT PLASTIC human being exists which can't decompose by the soil only by the fire still it can harm our environment, normally violent crime committed by someone who really close to us and US are the victim (Ejump, 2016)

We have just begun to navigate a strange region; we must expect to encounter strange adventures, strange perils.

We must follow our heart, but when we least expect it, it no longer belongs to us

Welcome to Yggdrasil and the warm embrace of MacCumhaill

All the boys in rehab are totally available because their girlfriends have all given up on them. It's fantastic.

When we are no longer children we are already dead

Admittedly, I am not the one who looks fantastic in everything, but still I cannot help loving myself.

A fantastic positive ATTITUDE makes a great day! SMILE!

Against Juventus we were massive underdogs, so to beat them was fantastic.

All the words are already there when you're singing onstage, it's fantastic. You can lose yourself in what you've created. You're controlling this freedom.

You want to do something very simple but also very fantastic? Then sit under the rain! Not long after, yourself will leave you and there will remain only the rain!

Affectation is certain deformity; by forming themselves on fantastic models, the young begin with being ridiculous, and often end in being vicious.

A good story can take you on a fantastic journey.

All the directors that I've had the opportunity to work with are fantastic.

Among the guitarists, Wes Montgomery is fantastic. He's always good to let you know what the art form is all about. It's the same still life that everybody is painting, but in comes Wes Montgomery, and it's right there!

Am I allowed to say I really wanted this? This is fantastic.

Australians are a fantastic bunch of people but the attention can be overwhelming for someone like me.

Analog was perfected over 70 years, though. Digital will one day be fantastic. I'm sure of it.

Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can't be described. We can draw it up and we can make models of it, but it can only be experienced as a complete whole.

As a writer, author, creator of something the fact that people are still interested, is fantastic.

A true buddy is a person who thinks that you'll be a fantastic egg although he is aware that you are somewhat cracked.

At the Tour, you always have some fantastic days and some days where you hit the asphalt. Today was an asphalt day for me.

Authorship of any sort is a fantastic indulgence of the ego.

Ayn Rand more than anyone else did a fantastic job of explaining the morality of capitalism, the morality of individualism.

Art is sexy! Art is money-sexy! Art is money-sexy-social-climbing-fantastic!

As a matter of fact, I find the Western cinema very fantastic.

As far as Putin and Russia, I don't say good, bad or indifferent. I don't know the gentleman. I hope we have a fantastic relationship. That's possible and it's also possible that we won't. We will see what happens.

Australians don't have a preconceived notion of what things have to be... we can go on a fantastic journey.

Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!

Because it's in and about New York City, I knew 'Ex Machina' was going to have to continually mix the mundane and the fantastic.

But I went down to Venezuela and spend a few weeks going through jungles. It's fantastic looking.

Cinema Paradiso' is a fantastic film, I love that.

Cautionary tales were fantastic in the '70s.

Commerce is unexpectedly confident and serene, alert, adventurous, and unwearied. It is very natural in its methods withal, far more so than many fantastic enterprises and sentimental experiments, and hence its singular success.

Classical music's ability to translate emotional themes is fantastic.

Come knit hands, and beat the ground in a light fantastic round

Cooking a fantastic meal is therapeutic. I like the entire process-the chopping, the stirring. At the end, hopefully you get to enjoy a great meal with a friend or loved one.

Competition is always a fantastic thing, and the computer industry is intensely competitive.

Einstein's theory of relativity does a fantastic job for explaining big things. Quantum mechanics is fantastic for the other end of the spectrum - for small things.

Do you feel better?” I asked Sam as he opened the door to the Volkswagen for me. “Yes,” he said. He was still a terrible liar. “Good,” I said. I was still a fantastic one.

Danish film is spreading in a fantastic way.

Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.

[Donald Trump] has also promised an intelligence surge [in Syria]. Mike Flynn knows a lot about that. Tactically, Mike Flynn has been fantastic with intelligence when he was in the military. They'll be looking at that.