Best 4015 quotes in «fantasy quotes» category

The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

The atheist, by merely being in touch with reality, appears shamefully out of touch with the fantasy life of his neighbors.

The best I do, if I'm just playing around and riffing in a fantasy world, and then I'll write something down. Hopefully I write it down.

The Company of Wolves doesn't belong in any category, so it's difficult to prepare an audience for it. It's not a horror film, it's not a fantasy film, it's not a children's film - so what is it?

The culture of celebrity has become insane. It's all based on fantasy, and I find it creepy and disturbing.

The fantasy of doing a task perfectly is common with procrastinators; they set the bar for success very high. Then they are afraid to approach it. As the deadline approaches, they must set the bar lower.

The difference between science fiction and fantasy … is simply this: science fiction has rivets and fantasy has trees.

The dream of reason produces monsters

The dreams get anchored in aged wisdom not some utopian fantasy.

The fantasy of a man is the best weapon of a woman.

The fantasy we had with pearls was always so luxurious and unique with a kind of rareness.

The fantasy never got beyond that—I didn’t let it—and though the tears rolled down my face, I wasn’t sobbing or out of control. I just waited a bit, then turned back to the car, to drive off to wherever it was I was supposed to be.

The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.

The heart grows brutal feeding on fantasies.

The game lends itself to fantasies about our abilities.

The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda.

The genre of fantasy is about magic and occult characters.

The greatest profound pain is cased by, and is the result of our own illusions, fantasies and dreams.

The great thing about Jane Austen - the reason we're all still obsessed with her - is that she gets inside a woman's mind and she taps into our fantasies of wanting to be accepted and loved for who we are.

The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.

The idea that somebody is going to come in and make your debt go away and all be well for the future is really a fantasy.

The idea that things used to be better is fantasy. It's putting a halo on something that no one can disprove.

The illusion of magic is an idealistic fantasy; it exists only in the imagination of the spectator.

The Lord of the Rings movie set an entirely new standard for fantasy in the movies.

The industrial direction is sometimes too much. We should think more about fantasy.

The marriage between the fantasy and the Westerns is that thing of, if people think you're the best gunslinger around, they're going to come looking for you.

The more that you travel the more you get the sense of the word as a larger place and the more you get a sense of the variety of history and mythology. And when you know about these things you can incorporate them into what I feel is a more rich and more large tapestry of fantasy.

The mind spends most of the time lost in fantasies and illusions, reliving pleasant or unpleasant experiences and anticipating the future with eagerness or fear. While lost in such cravings or aversions, we are unaware of what is happening now, what we are doing now.

The minute I forget to balance reality with the fantasy, I'm going back to Virginia.

The neurotic's strongest fantasy is that he has no fantasies. The real is very real to him, the unreal even more so.

The muse in charge of fantasy wears good, sensible shoes. No foam-born Aphrodite, she vaguely resembles my old piano teacher, who was keen on metronomes.

The Old Testament is my favourite science fantasy reading.

The reality of things going on around me is more interesting than the fantasies of the world I work in.

The photographer and the director are where reality and fantasy meet.

The point of fashion is that you take the picture you want. And fashion is the only photography that allows fantasy, and I'm a fantasist.

The present moment is really all that we have. The only place you can really love another person is in the present. Love in the past is a memory. Love in the future is a fantasy. To be really alive, love - or any other experience - must take place in the present.

The problem with fantasy is the greatest benefit of fantasy: it prevents us from living in the present moment.

Theories are just fantasies. And they change.

The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.

The psyche is highly flammable material. So we are always wrapping things in asbestos, keeping our images and fantasies at arm's length because they are so full of love

The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.

The question is always the same with a dragon: will he talk with you or will he eat you?

There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.

There's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons.

There is another component that makes us who we are. It is a fantasy comprising all of our actions and thoughts. It’s called an opinion. And we will die for our opinion

There's a challenge to playing these fantasy figures because they are fantasy figures. You have to enter into this sort of imaginative world of the writer.

There's a lot of fantasy about what Scotland is, and the shortbread tins and that sort of thing.

The standards of judgment must be rooted in the whys and wherefores of life as it is lived, the world as it is, not our wished-for fantasy of the world as it should be.

There's always been this strand of filmmaking in Britain which is like socialist neo-realism. That's always been there. I've never been part of that, really; I've been much closer to fantasy.

There's a very fine line between one person's reality and another person's fantasy.