Best 4015 quotes in «fantasy quotes» category

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.

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

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

New rule: every fantasy author who doesn't treat horses like tireless hairy motorcycles automatically gets a Hugo.

One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.

Once confined to fantasy and science fiction, time travel is now simply an engineering problem.

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

Not even I, in my original Spanish, am necessarily obliged to make exact quotations. I can do that or not, I can play with that opportunity or not. This is my right, or poetic license, as someone who is building an artefact of fantasy - this implicit pact with the reader is my starting point.

One must give up the fantasy of a perspicacious gunslinger/investor outwitting the market.

Our life stories are at one and the same time reality, fallacy and fantasy.

Our fascination with gold is related to the fantasies of early childhood.

Outside the street's on fire in a real death waltz between what's flesh and what's fantasy.

Painters and sculptors under the Nazis often depicted the nude, but they were forbidden to show any bodily imperfections. Their nudes look like pictures in physique magazines: pinups which are both sanctimoniously asexual and (in a technical sense) pornographic, for they have the perfection of a fantasy.

Pakistani feature films are all about catering to the male ego and male fantasy.

Perhaps because technology so dominates our existence, more and more it seems that the young reader is captivated by fantasy.

Patrick Rothfuss gives us a fabulous debut, standing firmly on the main stage of the fantasy genre and needing no warm-up act. Jordan and Goodkind must be looking nervously over their shoulders!

People don't like to say Horror so they say Dark Fantasy because that's Horror wearing a collar and tie.

Prodigy only feeds on prodigy, fantasy on fantasy.

Photographic fantasy: more agile and faster in discoveries than murky subconscious processes!

Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them.

Privacy is a bourgeois fantasy.

Reality can easily become the current fantasy.

Religions are all the same...Based upon legends and fantasies

Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.

Reality must prove itself again and again to questioners ... it is the fantasy which goes on without contradiction, without having to prove itself.

Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies.

Science-fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves you off.

Science fiction is fantasy with bolts painted on outside.

Science Fiction has rivets, fantasy has trees.

Science fiction is about what could be but isn't; fantasy is about what couldn't be.

Sci-fi and fantasy used to be a TV staple throughout my childhood. Then it just stopped dead. It was seen as culty, a minority interest.

Scratch a fantasy and you'll find a nightmare.

Sense can support herself handsomely in most countries on some eighteen pence a day; but for fantasy, planets and solar systems, will not suffice.

She’d already decided to be with him. If only to wipe him from her mind, get him out of her system and stop the fantasies plaguing her. If only to prove to herself that being with him would not be pleasurable for her.

Set your fantasies in the here and now and then, if challenged, claim to be writing Magical Realism.

Sheer animated fantasy is still my first and deepest production impulse.

Sometimes you can think that 'I've had enough of wizards!' And sometimes fantasy is not just about wizards.

Some of my other stories are talked about as fantasy, some as horror, and some aren't talked about as genre at all. And the same story will be labeled differently depending on country.

Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.

Some women have 'always' been lesbians. Others, like myself, have 'become' one. As much a sociocultural construction as it is an effect of early childhood experiences, sexual identity is nether innate nor simply acquired, but dynamically (re)structured by forms of fantasy private and public, conscious and unconscious, which are culturally available and historically specific.

So I suppose I do not know how he really looked, and, in fact, I suppose I shall never know, now, for he was plainly an object created in the mode of fantasy. His image was already present somewhere in my head and I was seeking to discover it in actuality, looking at every face I met in case it was the right face - that is, the face which corresponded to my notion of the unseen face of the one I should love, a face created parthenogeneticallyby the rage to love which consumed me.

So wie die Verruecktheit in einem hoeheren Sinn, der Anfang aller Weisheit ist, so ist die Schizophrenie der Anfang aller Kunst, aller Phantasie. (As insanity in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom, so is schizophrenia the beginning of all art, all fantasy.)

Thank you... fantasy football draft, for letting me know that even in my fantasies, I am bad at sports.

Streaking through a large crowd has always been a secret fantasy of mine.

Take it, and turn to facts my fantasies.

Televisions and movies have made many Americans into habitual consumers of synthetic experience-audiovisual fantasies that simply pass the time.

That's the fantasy dream project, to collaborate with someone who preaches the gospel of art through music.

That's a huge fear for middle-class women. It's not so much a fear for poor women, because poor women have always assumed that they are going to have to support themselves. It's middle-class women who have this fantasy that somebody else is going to support them.

That's pretty much why I went into show business because I wanted to have a guitar and sing unaccompanied, that was like my fantasy of the perfect life.

That was the action figure I was playing with. I grew up having this fantasy of being a superhero, being Princess Power.