Fantasist Quotes

#1. Against fantasists. - The fantasist denies reality to himself, the liar does so only to others.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#2. I was described as a dreamer, a fantasist, even as the village idiot. I didn't care. What I cared about was convincing people to allow me to go on with my work.

Ada Yonath

#3. ...Fritz Leiber, the great fantasist and science fiction writer...called books 'the scholar's mistress'...the one who made no demands and always took him in...

Stephen King

#4. As well as being a vulgar producer of her own spectacle, and an embarrassment to her family, Cindy Sheehan is at best a shifty fantasist.

Christopher Hitchens

#5. You have to get something down, and then find ways of working in complexity and different layers of meaning ... My first drafts are usually the ravings of a delusional fantasist.

Peter Wolf

#6. I have more ideas than I know what to do with. I guess I'm a bit of a fantasist and a daydreamer - all sorts of things come to me during the day.

Dasha Zhukova

#7. The point of fashion is that you take the picture you want. And fashion is the only photography that allows fantasy, and I'm a fantasist.

Tim Walker

#8. When I was 14, I told my mother I intended to be in the House of Commons in the morning, in court in the afternoon and on stage in the evening. She realised then a fantasist had been born.

Helen McCrory

#9. A lot of people have read the Mira Grant books who are not urban fantasy readers, and they would never have picked up a book with an urban fantasist's name on the cover, but then they go on to read my urban fantasy and like it.

Seanan McGuire

#10. The realist lies for advantage. The fantasist lies to give his dreams a flavor of reality.

Mason Cooley

#11. The fantasist in whom the reality barrier has broken down is unreliable, believing things when he should not, and telling things as true when they are not.

Simon Blackburn

#12. I love Linkin Park; that's one of my favorite groups, that I went to all their concerts. I love those guys, man. They do, like, pop-rock, know what I'm saying?

Juicy J

#13. Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don't notice whether it's passing quickly or slowly.

Ivan Turgenev

#14. Always consider your intellect to be lacking; otherwise too much faith in it surely leads to error.

Ali Ibn Abi Talib

#15. But then, as she knew too well, the more fondly we imagine something will last forever, the more ephemeral it often proves to be.

Iain M. Banks

#16. Pray to God with tears in your eyes whenever you want illumination or find yourself faced with any doubt or difficulty. The Lord will remove all your impurities, assuage your mental anguish, and give you enlightenment.

Sarada Devi

#17. You have to write scenes and design scenes that are scary and horrific, but that are also watchable. I didn't want people to just feel like they got punched in the stomach.

Eli Roth

#18. When you live with constant gratitude, your life will become a living prayer.

Barbara De Angelis

#19. She is why purgatory was invented.

Ann-Marie MacDonald

#20. The [Carter] administration doesn't know the difference between a diplomat and a doormat.

Ronald Reagan

#21. Still, he thought, there was no luck at all in standing still. The next morning he would crawl forward again. If luck wouldn't find him, he would do his best to make his own.

Michael Punke

#22. People will just knock each other down to dial 911 and be the big hero.

Chuck Palahniuk

#23. This is all yours, forever. It's all yours, forever!

Alex Riley

#24. I mean, comedy's hard. If you go back and look at the first season of 'Seinfeld,' it's a work in progress and that's what happens. It just takes time for people to figure each other out, and figure out timing, and to develop creatively with the writers.

Zachary Knighton

#25. I've always felt that 'X-Men' was about something serious. It wasn't just fantasy.

Ian McKellen