Fantasy Quotes - Page 25

• We all have this fantasy of finding our one true love who's going to be the perfect fit. It's just not a reality.

  Ethan Hawke

  Reality, Perfect, Fit

  6 Copy quote

• I'll protect myself by making up all this crazy stuff. It'll be like a little shell. Like an Easter egg shell that's all decorated.

  Edie Brickell

  Easter, Crazy, Eggs

  6 Copy quote

• It does seem that a fantasy, working out in its own terms, stretching you beyond the normal concerns of your own life, gains you a peculiar charge of energy which inexplicably enriches you. At least, this is my ideal of a fantasy, and I am always trying to write it.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Writing, Always Trying, Work Out

  5 Copy quote

• The hope that fuels the pursuit of endless economic growth - that billions of consumers in India & China will one day enjoy the lifestyles of Europeans and Americans - is as absurd & dangerous a fantasy as anything dreamt up by Al-Qaeda. It condemns the global environment to early destruction & looks set to create reservoirs of nihilistic rage & disappointment among hundreds of millions of have-nots - the bitter outcome of the universal triumph of Western Modernity, which turns the revenge of the East into something darkly ambiguous, and all its victories truly Pyrrhic.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Disappointment, Revenge, Growth

  8 Copy quote

• Many fantasy novels - 'Lord of the Rings', for instance, or 'Lavondyss' by Robert Holdstock - are beautifully written. Geoff Ryman's 'The Child Garden' is exquisite and utterly beguiling. Mervyn Peake's 'Gormenghast' trilogy is an astonishing piece of multi-faceted storytelling. So quality of writing does not condemn the genre.

  David Gemmell

  Children, Writing, Garden

  8 Copy quote

• Humans need fantasy in order to be human.

  Terry Pratchett

  Healing, Order, Needs

  4 Copy quote

• I enjoy acting when you really hit it right. And I guess I've always had too much fantasy to be only a housewife.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Acting, Too Much

  Marilyn Monroe, Roger G. Taylor (1983). “Marilyn Monroe in her own words”, Putnam Pub Group

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy. And in the final tolling it often turns out that the facts are more comforting than the fantasy.

  Carl Sagan

  Comforting, Religion, Finals

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.263, Ballantine Books

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I can recapture everything when I write, my thoughts, my ideals and my fantasies.

  Anne Frank

  Writing, My Thoughts, Ideals

  Anne Frank, General Press (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.131, GENERAL PRESS

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• No fiction, no myths, no lies, no tangled webs - this is how Irie imagined her homeland. Because homeland is one of the magical fantasy words like unicorn and soul and infinity that have now passed into language.

  Zadie Smith

  Lying, Tangled, Soul

  Zadie Smith (2001). “White Teeth”, p.408, Penguin UK

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Jack Kornfield

  Memories, Past, Alive

  92 Copy quote

• We have these impossibly high standards and we'll probably never live up to our perfect fantasies of our future selves. But I feel like that's okay.

  Marina Keegan

  Self, Perfect, Perspective

  Marina Keegan (2014). “The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Chris Hedges

  Country, Self, Retreat

  "How to Think COMMENTS". www.truthdig.com. July 9, 2012.

  109 Copy quote

  Show source

• My ultimate fantasy is to entice a man to my bedroom, put a gun to his head and say, 'Make babies or die'.

  Ruby Wax

  Baby, Gun, Men

  8 Copy quote

• MARVEL IS A CORNUCOPIA OF FANTASY, A WILD IDEA , A SWASHBUCKLING ATTITUDE , AN ESCAPE FROM THE HUMDRUM AND PROSAIC. IT'S A SERENDIPITOUS FEAST FOR THE MIND, THE EYE , AND THE IMAGINATION, A LITERATE CELEBRATION OF UNBRIDLED CREATIVITY, COUPLED WITH A TOUCH OF REBELLION AND AN INSOLENT DESIRE TO SPIT IN THE EYE OF THE DRAGON.

  Stan Lee

  Attitude, Creativity, Eye

  Stan Lee, George Mair (2002). “Excelsior!: The Amazing Life of Stan Lee”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

  72 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't know what its like for most actors, but really clearly for myself acting has always been the fulfillment of personal fantasies. It isn't just art, its about being a person I've always wanted to be, or being in a situation, or being a hero.

  Richard Dreyfuss

  Art, Hero, Acting

  9 Copy quote

• The web is my unconscious but it's also a wish -- a fantasy of what my own creativity might look like if I weren't constantly impeding its flow.

  Alison Bechdel

  Creativity, Wish, Looks

  Alison Bechdel (2012). “Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama”, p.66, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Fantasy (in this sense) is, I think, not a lower but a higher form of Art, indeed the most nearly pure form, and so (when achieved) the most potent.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Art, Thinking, Form

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “Tales from the Perilous Realm”, p.302, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If this were a fantasy world, there would be ten of me and we would each be doing what we wanted to do.

  George Lucas

  Would Be, World, Management

  4 Copy quote

• To all the fantasy owners who drafted me: You're welcome.

  Peyton Manning

  Welcome, Owners, You Re Welcome

  10 Copy quote

• Once upon a time, there was a Magic Kingdom made of hopes and childhood fantasies. A timeless place where every land was filled with wonder. A place where everyone who entered its gates would be given the gift of the young at heart.

  Julie Andrews

  Heart, Magic Kingdom, Land

  13 Copy quote

• I have been doodling with ink and watercolor on paper all my life. It's my way of stirring up my imagination to see what I find hidden in my head. I call the results dream pictures, fantasy sketches, and even brain-sharpenin g exercises.

  Maurice Sendak

  Dream, Exercise, Imagination

  "Graeme Base adds music to his magical illustrations", www.cnn.com. September 1, 1999.

  32 Copy quote

  Show source

• To go into Ukraine and to take over, to invade Crimea, is a huge step. And [Russian President Vladimir Putin] would only have done it with a president who has shown from the very beginning that [President Obama] is living in a fantasy world...They imagine the world as a new interconnected world where climate change is the biggest threat and they are shocked that the Russians actually are interested in territory.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Ukraine, President, Climate

  "Comrade Putin explains it all" By Chris Stirewalt, www.foxnews.com. March 4, 2014.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• I mainly let my imagination be my reality. Fantasy is my reality.

  Lana Del Rey

  Reality, Imagination, My Imagination

  Interview with Felicia C. Sullivan, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 20, 2009.

  35 Copy quote

  Show source

• The world needs fantasy, not reality. We have enough reality today

  Alexander McQueen

  Reality, Needs, World

  120 Copy quote