Fantasy Quotes - Page 40

• With all due respect, many in the entertainment industry are deep into mind-altering substance abuse, and when one's logic and intellectual calculating powers are replaced with dopey feel-good, fantasy-driven denial, the democratic party serves them well.

  Ted Nugent

  Party, Feel Good, Abuse

  "Captain McShitpants blasts Matt Damon on Palin". The Christian Science Monitor, September 18, 2008.

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• Our guys working this area for a living all believe Chalabi and all those guys in their Bond Street suits are charlatans. To take them for a source of anything except a fantasy trip would be a real stretch. But it's an article of faith among those with no military experience that the Iraqi military is low-hanging fruit.

  Scott Ritter

  Military, Real, Believe

  Knight Ridder, November 1, 2002.

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• I grew up in the Valley, and I didn't know any of our neighbors. I think when you grow up like that, there's always sort of a fantasy of a place where everybody knew each other, and you had that safe sort of feeling.

  Amy Sherman-Palladino

  Growing Up, Thinking, Feelings

  "Job Title: The 'Gilmore' Noodge". Interview with Virginia Heffernan, www.nytimes.com. January 23, 2005.

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• As the saying goes, truth is stranger than fiction. But only when the reality has not been subsumed by foamy legends and fantasies that radiate outward from the actual event.

  Brock Yates

  Truth, Reality, Events

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• I worked out a book which I thought was just straight science fiction -- with everything pretty much explained, and suddenly I got an idea which I thought was kind of neat for working in a mythological angle. I'm really struggling with myself. It would probably be a better book if I include it, but on the other hand I don't always like to keep reverting to it. I think what I'm going to do is vary my output, do some straight science fiction and some straight fantasy that doesn't involve mythology, and composites.

  Roger Zelazny

  Struggle, Book, Thinking

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• I see myself as a novelist, period. I mean, the material I work with is what is classified as science fiction and fantasy, and I really don't think about these things when I'm writing. I'm just thinking about telling a story and developing my characters.

  Roger Zelazny

  Writing, Character, Mean

  "A Conversation With Roger Zelazny". Talking with Terry Dowling and Keith Curtis in Science Fiction Vol. 1, #2, June 1978.

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• The traditional American husband and father had the responsibilities-and the privileges-of playing the role of primary provider. Sharing that role is not easy. To yield exclusive access to the role is to surrender some of the potential for fulfilling the hero fantasy-a fantasy that appeals to us all. The loss is far from trivial.

  Faye J Crosby

  Husband, Father, Hero

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• The rationalism of the creative minds was tempered by abundant fantasies, and the supreme beauty of the monuments was probably spoiled by the circumambient vanities and ugliness; in a few cases the Greeks came as close to perfection as it was possible to do, yet they were human and imperfect.

  George Sarton

  Vanity, Perfection, Creative

  George Sarton (1952). “Ancient Science Through the Golden Age of Greece”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• I believe that I have now experienced the lifetime maximum exposure to bottom spanking in fantasy novels.

  James Nicoll

  Believe, Fantasy Novels, Lifetime

  Usenet article, 2005.

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• Most of what I do is science fiction. Some of the things I do are fantasy. I don't like the labels, they're marketing tools, and I certainly don't worry about them when I'm writing. They are also inhibiting factors; you wind up not getting read by certain people, or not getting sold to certain people because they think they know what you write. You say science fiction and everybody thinks Star Wars or Star Trek.

  Octavia Butler

  Stars, War, Writing

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• There are details within details within details to anchor you in the fact that we are talking about the real world, not an illustrated children's book fantasy world.

  Joe Rohde

  Children, Real, Book

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• I've been involved with Fantasy Football for more than 10 years now, and I'll keep competing each year as long as I'm still having fun. I like to play sports, and I like to compete, but I also have a wife and three daughters. This lets me stay involved with the sport I love and still spend quality time with my family too.

  Stevie Richards

  Sports, Daughter, Football

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• Is it not the artist who - like our dreams - dissolves the pretenses that hide us from ourselves, disclosing both our self-serving fantasies and our unsuspected potentialities?

  Dorothy Norman

  Dream, Artist, Self

  Dorothy Norman (1969). “The Hero: Myth, Image, Symbol”, Anchor Books

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• Fashion is, perhaps by necessity, in a world of its own - one that only rarely overlaps with anything resembling real life. This fantasy and exoticism is part of its appeal, of course.

  Vince Aletti

  Fashion, Real, World

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• You cannot do silhouettes in fantasy. Ah, no, you must be faithful. It is, the art, a, what you call, paradox. It is always that you must be simple, and then, if you are simple, you will stimulate the imagination of the observer.

  Ugo Mochi

  Art, Simple, Imagination

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• I never think about genre when I work. I've written fantasy, science fiction, supernatural fiction, and am now working on a suspense novel. Genres are mostly useful as a marketing tool, and to help booksellers known where to shelve a book.

  Elizabeth Hand

  Book, Thinking, Suspense Novels

  On "Mortal Love" at HarperCollins, 2004.

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• As a child I used to watch clouds, and in them, see faces, castles, animals, dragons, and giants. It was a world of escape--fantasy; something to inject wonder and adventure into the mundane, regulated life of a middle-class boy leading a middle-class life.

  Barry B. Longyear

  Children, Adventure, Animal

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• I try not to do the fantasy thing. If I didn't get hurt, what would I be? Who knows? When I look back on my career, from the hard work I put in, I got everything I deserved.

  Gilbert Arenas

  Hurt, Hard Work, Careers

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• I loved fairy tales as a kid. I've always been drawn to fantasy. They're always exciting. There's never a dull moment. I just love the embellishments and the magical stuff. It's such fun to work with and to re-imagine your own way.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Fun, Kids, Dull

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• Now that I had actually made love, more astonishingly now that I had been made love to, the fantasies were subtly undermined.

  Alan Hollinghurst

  Made

  Alan Hollinghurst (1994). “The folding star”, Pantheon

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• I have a lot of fantasies about being tied up and spanked. I suppose it isn't very liberated, is it? What kind of fantasies do feminists have?

  J. F. Lawton

  Feminist, Kind, Tied Up

  "Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death". www.imdb.com. 1989.

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• I go to Las Vegas--or at least I went to Las Vegas--because even though I knew everything that was sinister, calculating, and evil about it, I loved Las Vegas. Only in Vegas could I dare to fantasize that I was a Friend of Frank. Or that I was throwing the dice at Dino's favorite table. Or that I might luck out and sip bourbon with Rickles after his last lounge show. The D.I. oozed that kind of heady fantasy.

  Marc Cooper

  Vegas, Evil, Luck

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• When adults come together to form an intimate relationship, each person releases into it unresolved issues from their trans-generational pool of unconscious fantasies. Partners are often chosen to actualize certain potentialities for each other, and the unborn baby becomes party to their drama.

  Joan Raphael-Leff

  Baby, Drama, Party

  Joan Raphael-Leff (2001). “Pregnancy: The Inside Story”, p.10, Karnac Books

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• Do not confuse fantasy with imagination; the former consumes itself in daydreaming, the latter stimulates creativity in the arts and in the sciences.

  Fausto Cercignani

  Art, Creativity, Imagination

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• A human life is defined by its relationship with others: by its duty to its species. In the face of this duty, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are meaningless. What you call individual rights are merely the cultural fantasy of a failed civilization.

  Matthew Woodring Stover

  Pursuit Of Happiness, Rights, Civilization

  Matthew Woodring Stover (2008). “Blade of Tyshalle”, p.102, Del Rey

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