Top 1200 Fantasy World Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

I am a romantic. I want to cry when I throw out my Christmas tree, and I have a lot of feelings about magic and fantasy.

My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.

It's true - women want the fantasy. So give them romance - but without the desperation, wondering, and waiting you see in the movies.

First, inevitably, the idea, the fantasy, the fairy tale. Then, scientific calculation. Ultimately, fulfillment crowns the dream.

We're getting used to reality and fantasy passing into each other. Much of the border between them has been erased.

With fantasy and sci-fi, it's based in a real fandom. You're presenting to experts, and their source material is really important to them.

I saw literature as a fantasy, no less absorbing for all its irrelevance - a parallel life, as dreams shadow waking but never intersect it.

I didn't want to write a pure fantasy novel, though I love those and grew up on J. R. R. Tolkien and Ursula LeGuin.

Acting job can create a fantasy or stereotype for others. That's why we try not to show our personal lives so much.

I loved underground comics and psychedelic art. I did like some supernatural horror, but mainly fantasy. I was into escapism.

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!

I hope the average woman feels she needs practicality but with a little bit of fantasy. Otherwise, it's just not fashion.

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

If only simplicity were not the most difficult of all things. It consists of watching objectively the development of any fragment of fantasy.

I consider science fiction and fantasy my genre. And I've noticed over the years that there doesn't tend to be a lot of lighthearted, comedic stuff.

I read mostly science-fiction and fantasy when I was a teenager, and I was always drawn to stories where the characters had telepathic powers.

I hope the average woman feels she needs practicality but with a little bit of fantasy. Otherwise it's just not fashion.

The world is not something separate from you and me; the world, society, is the relationship that we establish or seek to establish between each other. So you and I are the problem, and not the world, because the world is the projection of ourselves, and to understand the world we must understand ourselves. That world is not separate from us; we are the world, and our problems are the world's problems.

We all have some version of a fantasy that's easy to escape to, and we all want a real relationship where there's a common give-and-take and you're seen for who you are, and appreciated for that.

Arsene Wenger has not just brought success to Arsenal. He is a very creative manager, producing almost fantasy football.

New rule: every fantasy author who doesn't treat horses like tireless hairy motorcycles automatically gets a Hugo.

We read fantasy to find the colors again, I think. To taste strong spices and hear the songs the sirens sang.

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

To call everything that appears illogical, fantasy, fairy tale, or chimera would be practically to admit not understanding nature.

At the root of Japanese manufacturing lies a feminine delicacy and shyness as well as a childlike curiosity and fantasy-filled worldview.

I have a hyper-active imagination, my mind tends to jump around a little, and I have some trouble between fantasy and reality.

My taste in watching things runs from dramas and low-budget films to high-end fantasy/science fiction.

The eye and fantasy feel more attracted by nebulous distance than by that which is close and distinct in front of us.

Shall you complain who feed the world? Who clothe the world? Who house the world? Shall you complain who are the world, Of what the world may do? As from this hour You use your power, The world must follow you!

Creating a future requires a profound and yes, unrealistic, vision of what is possible. But it is fantasy and wonder that drive technology and innovation.

Why do I find the fantasy - husband, family, kids - exhausting instead of alluring? Is there something wrong with me? Do I have a life?

I have this fantasy. I'm walking past a bookshop and I click my fingers and all my books go blank. So I can start again and get it right.

A freak is basically anyone who needs fantasy, degradation, or punishment in order to achieve his interpretation of erotic gratification.

I'm self-centered, inconsiderate, and what was the third adjective? Oh, yes, and I have this infantile fantasy that one day I'll amount to something as an actress.

I have this fantasy that the second movie would begin with a brief statement by all of the young actors who had played the children in the first movie, explaining how it had ruined their lives, so we would catch up with Emily Browning drinking heavily in the back of a burlesque bar, and maybe Liam Aiken would be living underneath a bridge, and then instead of the twins who played Sunny, we would just try to find the oldest woman in the world, and get an interview with her sitting in a trailer park.

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.

Fashion is such a fairytale and it is such a fantasy. And it's about metamorphosis and sort of changing yourself and playing a part that you want people to see.

The marriage between the fantasy and the Westerns is that thing of, if people think you're the best gunslinger around, they're going to come looking for you.

Can't get my head around sci-fi or fantasy. I'm not putting those genres down; it's just that I'm not built for them.

After reading Edgar Allan Poe. Something the critics have not noticed: a new literary world pointing to the literature of the 20th Century. Scientific miracles, fables on the pattern A+ B, a clear-sighted, sickly literature. No more poetry but analytic fantasy. Something monomaniacal. Things playing a more important part than people; love giving away to deductions and other forms of ideas, style, subject and interest. The basis of the novel transferred from the heart to the head, from the passion to the idea, from the drama to the denouement.

...[O]ur Founding Fathers enshrined a constitutional separation of powers for the ages undeluded by the fantasy that angels would win elections.

We do not live in several different, or even two different, worlds, a mental world and a physical world, a scientific world and a world of common sense. Rather, there is just one world; it is the world we all live in, and we need to account for how we exist as part of it.

Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.

Everyone knows and loves Elton John's music, but the true story of his life is so incredible that it can only be described as a fantasy.

The idea that we humans are good-natured, politically correct, nonjudgmental beings is pure fantasy. We are, at the very least, judgmental.

My favorite water cooler topic is fantasy football. I used to make fun of friends for doing it and now I'm obsessed.

I imagined my fantasy co-author would look like Miranda Kerr, but have the intellect and comedic timing of Liz Lemon.

Not everybody fantasizes about robbing a bank, but I think most people have that fantasy of being in a high speed chase.

Romance novels satisfy a very specific fantasy of romantic love that seems to be a powerful part of the female psyche.

The idea that somebody is going to come in and make your debt go away and all be well for the future is really a fantasy.

The concept of Jeannie Aur Juju' appealed to me greatly as I am a big fan of fantasy based shows.

There's a tendency to think that young designers only do fantasy fashion, but I'm more interested in making clothes that women can afford.

I'm just writing what I know. I've never been much of a reader of fantasy, and I think you write what you, personally, enjoy reading.

Even as a little kid, I told lots of stories, and I wrote them down, and I loved reading fiction and fantasy.

Life is but a momentary glimpse of the wonder of this astonishing universe, and it is sad to see so many dreaming it away on spiritual fantasy.

I honestly think anthropology is one of the most useful fields a fantasy writer can study, more so even than history.

I am definitely interested in soundtracks that one might associate with fantasy or sci-fi - they tend to be rich with musical ideas.

I think it's such a clever idea, that you fall in love when you're 16, and then you have this fantasy about that person for the rest of your life.

I was always a sci-fi and fantasy geek. I was in the 'Lord of the Rings' club and all my cool friends made fun of me.