Best 4015 quotes in «fantasy quotes» category

I never had a particularly strong craving to procreate, except for earlier fantasies of wanting to be Marmee in Little Women.

In every respect, fantasy is like doing abstract paintings.

In fantasy, impossible things exist. In science fiction, impossible things exist and can be understood by humans. In supernatural horror, impossible things exist and cannot live in peace with humans.

In my early teens, science fiction and fantasy had an almost-total hold over my imagination. Their outcast status was part of their appeal.

In Republican fantasy world, everything is always Obama's fault. Somehow, he's weak and he's ineffective, and yet he pulls the strings on everything in the world.

In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.

In sleep, fantasy takes the form of dreams. But in waking life, too, we continue to dream beneath the threshold of consciousness, especially when under the influence of repressed or other unconscious complexes.

I prefer a painful truth over any blissful fantasy.

In the recession people are going to be looking even more at what movie stars are wearing, as it provides a fantasy outlet.

In visual futurism, the line between total fantasy and futuristic is a thread of reality.

I really am a manifestation of my own fantasy.

I read fiction all the time. It's true that I don't like fantasy or science fiction. I like "realistic" novels, particularly those in which nothing much ever happens.

I still like to live in a whimsical world that seems more romantic and fantasy-related because real life seems so hard

I really love fantasy. I have to say it is my favourite genre to read and one of the genres I love the most to write.

I shoot fantasy. If you want reality, ride the bus

Is is true that dictators never dream because they can change their smallest fantasies into realities if they want to?

I still have a fantasy of being a musician when I grow up.

Is that romantic fantasy real? Um, after kids, no. Take the kids away, I don't know. Depends.

I think I'll give it up, the fantasy is over, I wanted to play Spiderman, Peter Parker.

I think about that all of the time and I have this fantasy that I am going to work at a museum someday! I would love to do something like that!

I think that the way of bringing realism into fantasy is to treat it as the commonplace.

I think of myself as Mirren rather than Mironova, absolutely. I am a Brit, really. I mean when I go to Russia and I do have, maybe it's a romantic fantasy. You know us actors, we're very good at romantic fantasies.

I think the worst that can happen in filmmaking is if you're working with a storyboard. That kills all intuition, all fantasy, all creativity.

I think the more stressful our times get, the more we look for fantasy escapes.

I think what I'm doing is quintessentially American because I'm not American - even though I am on the verge of getting my American passport next week - I have a fantasy of what is American. Big spaces, Marlon Brando, James Dean, easy living.

I think we’re [men and women] more similar. In that we all deal with our fantasy lives and sometimes are disappointed by reality.

I think we need to make documentaries about fantasy and storytelling. I think I just started to scratch the surface of a method that allows us to do that. We want to be sucked into the events, suspend our disbelief and imagine that this is a fiction, but actually putting onscreen the gap between who the people are and who they want to be and therefore opening the question about why they want to be this person.

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

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'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.

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

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

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.

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 thought of fantasy as a genre of best-case scenarios, and horror as a genre of worst-case scenarios.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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