Fantasy Quotes - Page 6

• Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

  Terry Pratchett

  I Hate You, Science, Dark

  "Criminal Minds: Conflicted". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2009.

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• I am sensual and very physical. I'm very erotic. But my sexuality exists on a sort of a fantasy level.

  Donna Summer

  Erotic, Sensual, Levels

  "Donna Summer Revealed Her #1 Sex Fantasy & U Won’t Believe What She Said!". Penthouse interview, www.iloveoldschoolmusic.com. September 13, 2015.

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• Of the two, I would think of my work as closer to Science Fiction than Fantasy.

  Jean M. Auel

  Thinking, Two, Fiction

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• Fantasy should be as close as possible to journalism.

  Dino Buzzati

  Journalism, Should

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• Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.

  Terry Pratchett

  Evil People, Good Omens, Treats

  "I Shall Wear Midnight". Book by Terry Pratchett, www.theguardian.com. 2010.

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• In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind.

  Nora Ephron

  Cute, Sex, Erotic

  Nora Ephron (2012). “Crazy Salad and Scribble Scribble: Some Things About Women and Notes on Media”, p.25, Vintage

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• She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don't apply to you.

  Terry Pratchett

  People, Half, Discworld

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Equal Rites: (Discworld Novel 3)”, p.129, Random House

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• I've always said fantasy is sort of 'stealth philosophy'.

  Terry Goodkind

  Philosophy, Said, Stealth

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• Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.

  Terry Pratchett

  Reading, Imagination, Upset

  FaceBook post by Terry Pratchett from Dec 07, 2016

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

  Terry Pratchett

  Glasses, Glitter, Sometimes

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• Look at life through the wrong end of the telescope.

  Dr. Seuss

  Cells, Imagination, Brain

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• Inside every sane person there’s a madman struggling to get out.

  Terry Pratchett

  Struggle, Discworld, Madmen

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• I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes.

  Dario Argento

  Years, Long, Style

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• Abandon the search for Truth; settle for a good fantasy

  Fran Lebowitz

  Bumper Sticker, Settling, Abandon

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• That's when we decided to stop in '66. Everyone thought we toured for years, you know, but we didn't. I joined in '62, and we'd finished touring in '66 to go into the studio where we could hear each other... and create any fantasy that came out of anybody's brain.

  Ringo Starr

  Years, Brain, Touring

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• Maybe every other American movie shouldn't be based on a comic book. Other countries will think Americans live in an infantile fantasy land where reality is whatever we say it is and every problem can be solved with violence.

  Bill Maher

  Country, Book, Reality

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  If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.

  Terry Pratchett

  Funny, Motivational, Trust

  FaceBook post by Terry Pratchett from Aug 28, 2015

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• The incalculable winds of fantasy and music and poetry, the mere face of a girl, the song of a bird, or the sight of a horizon, are always blowing evil’s whole structure away.

  C. S. Lewis

  Girl, Song, Sight

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• The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

  Carl Jung

  Leadership, Thoughtful, Play

  Carl Jung (2016). “Psychological Types”, p.88, Routledge

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• The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Real, Drawing, People

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook C 38, 1799.

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• If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.

  Terry Pratchett

  Real, Cynical, Cynicism

  Terry Pratchett (2016). “Seriously Funny: The Endlessly Quotable Terry Pratchett”, p.9, Random House

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• The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues.

  Terry Pratchett

  Life, Inspire, Plot

  "Moving Pictures". Book by Terry Pratchett, www.theguardian.com. 1990.

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• But here's some advice, boy. Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That's why they're called revolutions.

  Terry Pratchett

  Boys, Advice, Revolution

  Terry Pratchett (2002). “Night watch”, Doubleday UK

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• Children are dying." Lull nodded. "That's a succinct summary of humankind, I'd say. Who needs tomes and volumes of history? Children are dying. The injustices of the world hide in those three words.

  Steven Erikson

  Children, Fantasy Novels, Dying

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• People don't alter history any more than birds alter the sky, they just make brief patterns in it.

  Terry Pratchett

  Sky, People, Bird

  FaceBook post by Terry Pratchett from Nov 30, 2016

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