Best 4015 quotes in «fantasy quotes» category

It is better to be an outcast, a stranger in one’s own country, than an outcast from one’s self. It is better to see what is about to befall us and to resist than to retreat into the fantasies embraced by a nation of the blind.

It is to be all made of fantasy, All made of passion and all made of wishes, All adoration, duty, and observance, All humbleness, all patience and impatience, All purity, all trial, all observance

I try to stay focused on my life and do try not to be brought into the Hollywood fantasy.

It's easy to live in a fantasy world, and that's why I refuse to live in an isolated environment.

It’s better to succeed against daunting odds than settle for a fantasy and get nowhere.

It shouldn't come as any surprise that those who choose acting as a profession are phonies who live in a fantasy world. What is surprising is how many of them are blissfully unaware of it.

I've always been really drawn to that kind of sexual earthiness in European women, and Sophia Loren covered all the bases, including the whole mummy fantasy.

It's interesting, the sense of pastoral utopia that exists in so much fantasy - in [Edward ] Dunsany, [John R.R.] Tolkien and so on.

I've always read broadly: literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, chick lit, historical, dystopian, nonfiction, memoir. I've even read Westerns. I prefer female protagonists.

I've always found it easy and natural and, more importantly, necessary to articulate thoughts and feelings, and fierce emotions, through the written word. Fantasy and horror came to me when I was very young.

I've always thought a good whodunnit needed vampires, monks, and gods. P.G. Holyfield has created an engaging world that both fantasy and mystery fans will enjoy.

I've always said fantasy is sort of 'stealth philosophy'.

I've always thought of fantasy as a genre of best-case scenarios, and horror as a genre of worst-case scenarios.

I've come across a novel called The Palm-Wine Drinkard, by the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, that is really remarkable because it is a kind of fantasy of West African mythology all told in West African English which, of course, is not the same as standard English.

I wanted to be the greatest woman guitarist alive. I had fantasies about being a female Jimi Hendrix.

I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes.

I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains.

I was the original Cinderella girl, looking for the happy ending in the fairy story. But my fantasy prince never came.

I was a big sci-fi fantasy geek when I was younger... secretly, in my room.

I was very sensitive. I liked everything that touched fantasy and beauty. I dreamed of being a ballerina, but Mother said I was too big, too long.

Keep away from fantasy. Shake off the image.

Jeb climbed the ladder Fang had just lowered and I indulged in a moments fantasy about someone slamming the trapdoor on his head.”-max

I wonder what Proust would have made of our present-day locus of collective fantasy, the Internet. I’m guessing he would have seized on its wistful aspect, pointing out gently and with wry humor that much of what beguiles us is the act of reaching for what isn’t there.

Karl Marx predicted the eventual withering away of the state and the 'dictatorship of the proletariat,' when the people would rule, which was sheer fantasy because it was sheer fantasy because it was based on grossly erroneous assumptions about human nature, as history would repeatedly demonstrate.

Keep the competitive leads warm, get your deal oversubscribed, because until your deal is done, it's just a nice fantasy in your head

Later, however, I came to recognize the objective nature of these dreams or fantasies ... Thus it was that I gradually came to acknowledge that such fantasies or dreams are neither meaningless nor purely arbitrary but rather convey a sort of "second meaning" of the terms applied.

Like strange mechanical grotesques, Making fantastic arabesques, The shadows raced across the blind.

Like I said, when all of that goes away and you just completely lose yourself in the fantasy of it, then that's usually when I walk out of the theatre or turn off the television and just go: "That was brilliant!

Learning is the gradual replacement of fantasy with fact.

Living with golden fantasies of an endlessly nurtured infancy can be a neurotic refusal to grow up.

Looking at it, I started crying. Maybe it was knowing that I had to give up the fantasy, the enormous life consuming fantasy , that someone or something was going to do this for me – the fantasy that someone was coming to lead my life, to choose direction, to give me orgasms.

Men live in a fantasy world. I know this because I am one, and I actually receive my mail there

Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.

Me, I was already jaded and tarnished, skeptical that a fantasy world could keep reality at bay.

Metal guys are huge nerds. A good percentage of them are either horror or sci-fi or comic book or fantasy nerds.

Mere absurdity has never prevented the triumph of bad ideas, if they accord with easily aroused fantasies of an existence freed of human limitations.

“Money to Burn” is a fantasy. I mean, I would love for that to be a true story. Most of my songs are written in metaphors.

Modeling is about fantasy, getting people to buy into a lifestyle and a vision.

Most people cant' deal with reality, but indulge heavily in fantasy and fear.

Most fantasy is incredibly derivative of Tolkien, so when you read a lot of fantasy, it's really just elves and gnomes, and it all goes back to Tolkien.

Most modern fantasy just rearranges the furniture in Tolkien's attic.

Most fears are not even based on our current reality. They are the product of imagined fears conjured up in our minds - the product of our own fantasies.

Most of my short stories are fantasy.

My biggest fantasy as an actor is to be in situations that make me uncomfortable and force me out of my comfort zone.

Mr. Fantasy was the only song that was scribbling on a piece of paper.

Much of good science and perhaps all of great science has its roots in fantasy.

My love affairs were more often about the fantasy than the actual person I was involved with.

My fantasy is, if I wasnt on Dexter, I would move my family to London and work for the BBC on Doctor Who.

One man's fantasy is another man's job.

My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.