Best 4015 quotes in «fantasy quotes» category

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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 away from fantasy. Shake off the image.

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.

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.

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!

Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.

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 of my short stories are fantasy.

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

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

My own fantasies of what life would be like at 24 tended to the more spectacular.

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

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

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

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

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

Myth is supposed to bring us together, but fantasy alienates us.

My recent drawings that personal ones aren't fashion-related. I sometimes sit and draw people on the bus, or some fantasy hybrid animal. You know, wherever the hand will lead.

Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.