Top 1200 Fantasy World Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy.

Owning the Eagles is the ultimate fulfillment of every fantasy I ever had growing up in Philadelphia.

Of the authors published under Ballantine's Adult Fantasy logo, only Evangeline Walton 'spoke' to me.

Whenever I work on anything, there's always the fantasy that what one is doing is the next 'Citizen Kane'-slash-'Sopranos.'

I never, as a reader, have been particularly interested in dystopian literature or science fiction or, in fact, fantasy.

My love affairs were more often about the fantasy than the actual person I was involved with.

I understand that sometimes when you're young it's difficult to remember the difference between real life and what is part of fantasy.

The experience of directing yourself in a sex scene is, in a way, great. It's the fantasy we all have in our lives all the time.

Historically, science-fiction and fantasy literature is no stranger to controversy, but it has learned how to adapt and endure.

A lot of manuscripts that come in, you wonder by what outrageous fantasy the author believes that this should be pressed into print.

When you turn that fantasy into a fact, you are in a position to build even better fantasies. And that, my friend, is the Creative Process.

The 2006 federal Internet gaming statute is not ambiguous. It does not prohibit gambling on fantasy sports.

I lived out my little rock'n'roll fantasy, I just wish I hadn't gotten into so much trouble for it.

I have always regarded historical fiction and fantasy as sisters under the skin, two genres separated at birth.

You'd rather make up a fantasy version of somebody in your head than be with a real person.

Every idea appears at first as a strange visitor, and when it begins to be realized, it is hardly distinguishable from fantasy.

We live in a bubble of the fantasy of death, but the reality of it is something that we obviously all face and have to deal with, at some point.

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

And for adults, the world of fantasy books returns to us the great words of power which, in order to be tamed, we have excised from our adult vocabularies. These words are the pornography of innocence, words which adults no longer use with other adults, and so we laugh at them and consign them to the nursery, fear masking as cynicism. These are the words that were forged in the earth, air, fire, and water of human existence, and the words are: Love. Hate. Good. Evil. Courage. Honor. Truth.

We love fantasy novels in which the characters think that they're peasants but turn out to be princes and kings.

Up through and including Lincoln, American politicians nursed a fantasy of repatriating blacks to Africa.

My fantasy is to have a restaurant where there are no written menus, but where you just ask people, What are you in the mood for? Fish? Meat? White wine?

Movies are magical. It transcends a lot of hate or human faults in real life because of the fantasy of it all.

I collect fantasy swords, replicas from films, and have them displayed on the wall as you go up the stairs.

I know I'm not a woman's fantasy man; I don't have to uphold this image of male beauty, so that's kind of a relief in a way.

For a decade Americans have been steeped in the rhetoric of "zero tolerance" and the faith that virtually all problems from drug addiction to lousy teaching can be solved by pouring on the punishment. Even without a Commander in Chief who pledges to rid the world of evildoers, smoke them out of their holes and the like, we would be vulnerable to the temptation to brush aside frustrating complexities and relieve intolerable fear (at least for the moment) by settling on one or more scapegoats to crush. To imagine that trauma casts out fantasy is a dangerous mistake.

There was never a push for us to become more practical... Fantasy is what our audience has come to expect.

I didn't plan to write YA - I had a story that simply wasn't working as a straight-up fantasy novel.

There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.

Horror is edgier. Dark fantasy feels mushier to me. Finding the difference - it's an instinct. And they overlap a lot.

It doesn't matter if dragons are flying overhead or whatever - a lot of Victoriana is still cut in the frame of fantasy.

I don't know what that weid fantasy is that makes people go, "Oh, you must have had a great childhood."

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.

I'm a huge fan of science fiction and fantasy - not so much horror because I get a bit scared.

Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.

I find that with fantasy, you lose yourself in it a lot. It's great to be able to go into a dark theater or turn off the lights in your house and just get sucked into this world. I remember watching Star Wars when I was a little kid when they did the re-release of all the originals. I couldn't even read yet but my uncle took me and he would read me the opening as the words were coming up on the screen. I just remember being so sucked into that and thinking, "I want to be Luke Skywalker."

It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to collapse.

I love that in celebrating Halloween, we can get lost in the magic of make-believe and fantasy no matter what age we are!

I'm told my SF is of the hard variety and my Fantasy is romantic but hopefully all the characters are strong and the plots are lively.

Cavorting around fantasy-style environments with a rampaging horde of sycophantic psychos is inherently amusing.

[T]he next time you hear serious-sounding people explaining the need for fiscal austerity, try to parse their argument. Almost surely, you'll discover that what sounds like hardheaded realism actually rests on a foundation of fantasy, on the belief that invisible vigilantes will punish us if we're bad and the confidence fairy will reward us if we're good. And real-world policy - policy that will blight the lives of millions of working families - is being built on that foundation.

We don't need fantasy to mess with our minds to the point of rendering us insane - real life horrors do that already.

He moved toward her and cupped her face in his hands. "You are so beautiful that sometimes it hurts just to look at you. Your eyes are a thousand shades of brown and gold with hints of blue and green." He touched her cheekbones with thumbs. "Your freckles are like the girl-next-door fantasy brought to life. Your mouth is sexy and soft and when you smile, the world seems like a better place. Swear you'll never change anything. Swear it.

It was the first time I realized that absolute reality could be so much more fun than fantasy.

I've always had a fantasy to write a cookbook, because everyone wants to know what a model eats.

When you get into a hotel room, you lock the door, and you know there is a secrecy, there is a luxury, there is fantasy. There is comfort. There is reassurance.

It's interesting, the sense of pastoral utopia that exists in so much fantasy - in [Edward ] Dunsany, [John R.R.] Tolkien and so on.

I'm not against Kyoto. I just think it's a fantasy, especially considering China's energy predicament and their coal supplies.

I sort of had that fantasy of being one of the muses of Paris and hanging out with Toulouse Lautrec and Picasso.

I don't get wrapped up in catches and fantasy football. It's not the way I view the tight end position.

The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.

I want to see everything. I guess the positive version of not seeing or not knowing would be preservation of fantasy.

It's better to have the faith to embrace reality with all its pain than to cling to the false comfort of a painless fantasy.

In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.

My biggest fantasy was to have a pie thrown in my face, and I always said whoever did that, that's the guy I'd marry.

I grew up loving fantasy, adventure, and children's book series. At the time, I was in a place in LA where I wasn't working and I kind of thought to myself, "What do I really want to do? Like, what kind of role would be really exciting for me?" And I sort of thought about being in an adventurous, magical, fantastical world and a character that was powerful and sophisticated and perhaps even a dandy, that might have even passed in my head, and then I got an audition for the show ["The Magicians"] shortly after.

Science fiction is really a rather tiny business compared with its giant cousin, which is fantasy.

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

The young adult category is particularly interesting to me in terms of science fiction and fantasy tropes.

To be honest, if I was going to have any kind of fantasy, be it left-wing or otherwise, it wouldn't involve Margaret Thatcher.