Fantasy famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I eat, sleep, and drink my character. It is my fantasy to go to another planet.
-- Ace Frehley -
Fantasy is so much hotter than reality most of the time
-- Adam Lambert -
How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.
-- Alan Dean Foster -
Now that I had actually made love, more astonishingly now that I had been made love to, the fantasies were subtly undermined.
-- Alan Hollinghurst -
Classical music's ability to translate emotional themes is fantastic.
-- Alan Price -
Your memories become fantasies if they are not shared, and your life in all its triviality becomes a legend.
-- Aleksandar Hemon -
The incessant perpetuation of collective fantasies makes people crave the truth and nothing but the truth - reality is the fastest American commodity.
-- Aleksandar Hemon -
If you did not indulge in fantasies, how else would you know if you were living an interesting life?
-- Alethea Kontis -
Facts are more mundane than fantasies, but a better basis for conclusions.
-- Amory Lovins -
A love affair begins with a fantasy. For instance, that the beloved will always be there.
-- Amy Hempel -
They courted the face on the screen, the face of translucence, the face of wax on which men found it possible to imprint the image of their fantasy.
-- Anais Nin -
A treasure...at the top of any list of fantasy to be cherished.
-- Andre Norton -
Romance is finding your fantasy in people who don't have it.
-- Andy Warhol -
I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.
-- Anita Desai -
Even jealousy is based on fantasies: a fantasy that someone else has what belongs to you.
-- Anna Deavere Smith -
I think about that all of the time and I have this fantasy that I am going to work at a museum someday! I would love to do something like that!
-- Anna Sui -
I never had a particularly strong craving to procreate, except for earlier fantasies of wanting to be Marmee in Little Women.
-- Anne Lamott -
Mere absurdity has never prevented the triumph of bad ideas, if they accord with easily aroused fantasies of an existence freed of human limitations.
-- Anthony Daniels -
Why are you messing with the fantasy? We know about the reality. Don't ruin the fantasy, OK?
-- Anthony Michael Hall -
Philosophy appears to concern itself only with the truth, but perhaps expresses only fantasies, while literature appears to concern itself only with fantasies, but perhaps it expresses the truth.
-- Antonio Tabucchi -
I have abandoned my search for truth and am now looking for a good fantasy
-- Ashleigh Brilliant -
If you don’t define yourself for yourself then you will be crushed into other's fantasies of you and eaten alive
-- Audre Lorde -
The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
-- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison -
Sometimes fantasies are better than life.
-- Beatrice Sparks -
I do remember, as a child, that I always imagined, when I was maybe 6 or 7, my fantasy was that everywhere I went I was being followed by an invisible film crew.
-- Ben Kingsley -
I don't know what that weid fantasy is that makes people go, "Oh, you must have had a great childhood."
-- Ben Stiller -
Ah! si l'on o"Â tait les chime'Â res aux hommes, quel plaisir leur resterait? Oh! If man were robbed of his fantasies, what pleasure would be left him?
-- Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle -
One's fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
-- Bernard Malamud -
Truth will flourish in fantasy, only to wither and die in what you are pleased to call reality.
-- Bernard Schubert -
Most people cant' deal with reality, but indulge heavily in fantasy and fear.
-- Betty Shabazz -
I have never indulged our society's misguided notion that my personal life is relevant to my work, so any reporting surrounding that is necessarily hearsay, speculation or fantasy.
-- Billy Crudup -
I'm not an extraordinary worker, I'm an extraordinary daydreamer. I exceed all my fantasies-even that of writing.
-- Blaise Cendrars -
Fantasy leaves imaginations larger than it finds them.
-- Brandon Mull -
I've always thought of fantasy as a genre of best-case scenarios, and horror as a genre of worst-case scenarios.
-- Brian K. Vaughan -
All truth is very ordinary. It is peoples' fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary.
-- Brian Perkins -
It is peoples' fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary. That that we were born and that we face eternal extinction after death is an extraordinary fantasy.
-- Brian Perkins -
Not merely one of the finest fantasy novels of recent years, but one of the finest ever. Should not be missed
-- Brian Stableford -
I draw on my memories but blended with a lot of fantasy...
-- Bryan Adams -
Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
-- Carl Sagan -
Why do I find the fantasy - husband, family, kids - exhausting instead of alluring? Is there something wrong with me? Do I have a life?
-- Caroline Knapp -
The eye and fantasy feel more attracted by nebulous distance than by that which is close and distinct in front of us.
-- Caspar David Friedrich -
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.
-- Cassandra Clare -
I really love fantasy. I have to say it is my favourite genre to read and one of the genres I love the most to write.
-- Cassandra Clare -
Horror, for me, has to involve some sort of fantasy. Horror is something that is in your dreams or your nightmares.
-- Cassandra Peterson -
It's really hard to separate fantasy from reality.
-- Cathy Rigby -
Fantastic fiction covers fantasy, horror and science fiction - and it doesn't get the attention it deserves from the literati.
-- China Mieville -
The reason that I like SF and fantasy and horror is that to me it's the pulp wing of surrealism. That's the aesthetic of undermining and creative alienation that I really go for.
-- China Mieville -
The problem with most genre fantasy is that it's not nearly fantastic enough. It's escapist, but it can't escape.
-- China Mieville -
For me, part of the fascination with making animation is you go to a place; it's a complete immersion in someone else's fantasy.
-- Chris Wedge -
I was a big sci-fi fantasy geek when I was younger... secretly, in my room.
-- Christina Ricci -
I associate heavy metal with fantasy because of the tremendous power that the music delivers.
-- Christopher Lee -
Because nothing is as good as you can imagine it. No one is as beautiful as she is in your head. Nothing is as exciting as your fantasy.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature
-- Coco Chanel -
Here is Heimel's Law: Anything you fantasize about won't come true. So just cut it out.
-- Cynthia Heimel -
Electric light is just another instrument. I have no desire to contrive fantasies mediumistically or sociologically over it or beyond it.
-- Dan Flavin -
Any voices or fantasies, he lives with. Those are his everyday life things.
-- Daniel Craig -
I shoot fantasy. If you want reality, ride the bus
-- David LaChapelle -
All revolutions are the sheerest fantasy until they happen; then they become historical inevitabilities.
-- David Mitchell -
My biggest fantasy love affair was with Dustin Hoffman. It's so bizarre. Also Anthony Hopkins.
-- Debra Messing -
Anti-European politicians tell more myths and fantasies about Europe than you can find in Harry Potter or The Da Vinci Code.
-- Denis MacShane -
Most people spend their entire lives on a fantasy island called 'Someday I'll.'
-- Denis Waitley -
Fantasy should be as close as possible to journalism.
-- Dino Buzzati -
I'd listen to all the stuff that was going on around me and drift off into my fantasies about it. My fantasies have fuelled all the songs I've ever written.
-- Don McLean -
I am sensual and very physical. I'm very erotic. But my sexuality exists on a sort of a fantasy level.
-- Donna Summer -
To fulfil a fantasy is the quickest way to destroy it.
-- Duane Michals -
Myth is supposed to bring us together, but fantasy alienates us.
-- Dustin Hoffman -
Perhaps fate isn't blind after all. Perhaps it's capable of fantasy, even compassion.
-- Elie Wiesel -
I wasn't ecstatic about being pregnant - I wasn't somebody who actively wanted kids. Certainly there were no fantasies about nappy-changing.
-- Elizabeth McGovern -
I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting.
-- Elizabeth Moon -
Is this the life you really want? Or is it just the fantasy of it?
-- Ellen Schreiber -
We see what we want to see. We idealize each other with our own fantasies.
-- Eric Jerome Dickey -
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 -
Looking at it, I started crying. Maybe it was knowing that I had to give up the fantasy, the enormous life consuming fantasy , that someone or something was going to do this for me – the fantasy that someone was coming to lead my life, to choose direction, to give me orgasms.
-- Eve Ensler -
I was the original Cinderella girl, looking for the happy ending in the fairy story. But my fantasy prince never came.
-- Evelyn Keyes -
The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.
-- Federico Fellini -
But basically what I like are the possibilities, and the fantasy element of the show. Not science fantasy so much, but fantasy, the humanistic elements and how people relate when they’re in a dire situation or comedic situation.
-- Fisher Stevens -
Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters
-- Francisco Goya -
There's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons.
-- Fred Saberhagen -
Scratch a fantasy and you'll find a nightmare.
-- Gail Caldwell -
I collect fantasy swords, replicas from films, and have them displayed on the wall as you go up the stairs.
-- Gary Numan -
I'm very into science-fantasy, that kind of swordfights and magic and technology thing.
-- Gary Numan -
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.
-- Gena Showalter -
I love acting, especially if it's a fantasy of some kind, where it's not just realistic, it's not naturalism.
-- Gene Wilder -
All novels are fantasies. Some are more honest about it.
-- Gene Wolfe -
The problem with fantasy is the greatest benefit of fantasy: it prevents us from living in the present moment.
-- Geneen Roth
