Fantastically Quotes

#1. I feel television is in a fantastically rich vein of what it's presenting both by opportunity to actors and to audiences.

David Oyelowo

#2. I always argued against the auteur theory; films are a collaborative art form. I've had some fantastically good people help me make the movies.

Alan Parker

#3. I feel fantastically excited that we have a leader who fought for the leadership without compromising his quite challenging view that the party has to change.

Francis Maude

#4. There are actors who are really fantastically talented at being natural on screen and appearing to be themselves, but I like the challenge of becoming somebody else.

Toni Collette

#5. Our solar system is fantastically bizarre. There are worlds with features we never imagined. Storms larger than planets, moons with under-surface oceans, lakes of methane, worldlets that swap places ... and that's just at Saturn.

Phil Plait

#6. I think if I were to sit down in a bid for power, I would ask myself what I should control if I want to control the people. The answer would be sex. Money. And definitive knowledge of the afterlife. Then I'd make fantastically pleasant rules surrounding every one of them.

Dan Pearce

#7. There was not one straight floor from the foundation to the roof; the ceilings were so fantastically clouded by smoke and dust, that old woman might have told fortunes in them better than in grouts of tea;

Charles Dickens

#8. I was fantastically well versed by the time I left school. I had a teacher who put 'A Clockwork Orange' my way, and 'Catcher in the Rye.'

Kenneth Cranham

#9. On the news two dozen events of fantastically different importance are announced in exactly the same tone of voice. The voice doesn't discriminate between a divorce, a horse race, a war in the Middle East.

Doris Lessing

#10. It's the originality of Pauls Toutonghi's voice and vision that makes this such a remarkable novel. Toutonghi is a true daredevil of a writer, and this fantastically hilarious and affecting book will have you on the edge of your seat.

Skip Horack

#11. You don't have to know how to shine the sun, you just do it. Like you breathe. Now doesn't it just astonish you that you are this fantastically complex thing? And you are doing all of this and you never had any education in how to do it?

Allan Watts

#12. This is fantastically squalid," said Milo. "We may never get out of here alive.

R. J. Anderson

#13. Japanese maps tend to come in two varieties: small, schematic, and bewildering; and large, fantastically detailed, and bewildering.

Charles C. Mann

#14. Yes, 85 percent of the art you see isn't any good. But everyone has a different opinion about which 85 percent is bad. That in turn creates fantastically unstable interplay and argument.

Jerry Saltz

#15. Trey Spruance didn't want to tour for ages. And Dean Menta has always been our guitar-roadie during Angel Dust, and I remember him playing fantastically during soundchecks. During each gig, he was watching from the side of the stage, seeing Big Jim play stuff that he could play better.

Mike Patton

#16. My books are all fantastically sentimental.

Chuck Palahniuk

#17. My sons the same, hes terribly funny. Its a wonderful power to have. Its also fantastically disarming. Women find it unbelievably disarming. You can say the most astonishing things if youre funny. You can tell a woman that shes irresistibly attractive, but do it in such a funny way.

Robbie Coltraine

#18. Functional coherence makes accidental invention fantastically improbable and therefore physically impossible. The

Douglas Axe

#19. My forebears were fantastically wealthy Armenians who came to England from India in the 19th century and did what foreign types do - they married into a penniless but well-bred local family.

Saul David

#20. How ramshackle, how brilliant, how haphazardly & rendered we are. Gloriously, fantastically mixed & monstered.

Aracelis Girmay

#21. He learned to communicate with birds and discovered their conversation was fantastically boring. It was all to do with windspeed, wingspans, power-to-weight ratios and a fair bit about berries.

Douglas Adams

#22. A fantastically huge, roiling cloud, glowing bluish gray, swaggered over the city. It was more than three miles tall. Below it Hiroshima was boiling.

Laura Hillenbrand

#23. Walking is a skill that took millions of years for us to develop. If you wanted to design a robot that could walk as well as a person, this would be fantastically complicated software. It would have to be doing billions of calculations with every step.

David Pogue

#24. Bright-shirted racers of the Tour de France zoomed by like fantastically bicycling macaws.

Joseph O'Neill

#25. He's a man [George W. Bush] who is lucky to be governor of Texas. He is a man who is unusually incurious, abnormally unintelligent, amazingly inarticulate, fantastically uncultured, extraordinarily uneducated, and apparently quite proud of all these things.

Christopher Hitchens

#26. My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.

Laura Mvula

#27. No storyteller has been able to dream up anything as fantastically unlikely as what really does happen in this mad Universe.

Robert A. Heinlein

#28. Eve. That torpedo mind-fuck sex was outrageous and fantastically titillating. Titi-fuck-illating. But there was something else as well. Emotional, a small voice in Beckett's head suggested. Connected. Well, shit. That seemed just about right. Definitely something new.

Debra Anastasia

#29. The fascination for me writing about crime in Berlin was the idea that there was this much bigger crime taking place in the background, a fantastically epochal moment in history which is just going on. That just sort of makes the whole thing have a greater resonance.

Philip Kerr

#30. The skill of a good actor is to make it always seem like you're in that fantastically spontaneous moment. Very often, a stand-up comedian has a different instinct, which is to reinvent. Once you've laid down some material, and made them laugh, you move on and find some new material.

Colin Firth

#31. New York is appalling, fantastically charmless and elaborately dire.

Henry James

#32. Tahini is fantastically versatile, its deep, nutty flavour a harmonious match with roasted vegetables, grilled oily fish or barbecued meat.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#33. I think an ashtray is the most fantastically real thing.

Damien Hirst

#34. I wouldn't want to criticise someone like Charlotte Church because she has done fantastically well, but personally I've always cared about the long term.

Lesley Garrett

#35. I cannot step into any day without help. I have a fantastically engaged husband who is very present for his children and our family life. We've got a brilliant nanny, other help from parents-in-law, godparents, friends. Also, I've had incredible women around me in the business.

Tamsin Greig

#36. If things don't go fantastically, you just have to deal with it.

Anton Du Beke

#37. The bottom line is, like, one in five stars has at least one planet where life might spring up. That's a fantastically large percentage. That means in our galaxy, there's on the order of tens of billions of Earth-like worlds.

Seth Shostak

#38. It seems to me a work of art is the evidence offered by a fantastically observant witness

John Banville

#39. And travellers, now, within that valley,
Through the red-litten windows see
Vast forms, that move fantastically
To a discordant melody,
While, like a ghastly rapid river,
Through the pale door
A hideous throng rush out forever
And laugh - but smile no more.

Edgar Allan Poe

#40. The few things that work fantastically well should be identified, cultivated, nurtured, and multiplied.

Richard Koch

#41. I'll admit, right away, that I am disappointed that we did not have a major trophy to show for our efforts. We were in four and we had a good side, but when you count second place as failure, then standards are becoming fantastically high. We never celebrate second place here.

Bob Paisley

#42. Like a man made after supper of a cheese-paring: when a' was naked, he was, for all the world, like a forked radish, with a head fantastically carved upon it with a knife.

William Shakespeare

#43. I just never felt so fantastically rocky in my entire life.

J.D. Salinger

#44. We are still waging Peloponnesian wars. Our control of the material world and our positive science have grown fantastically. But our very achievements turn against us, making politics more random and wars more bestial.

George Steiner

#45. The dog has behaved himself quite well all day, and the show is doing fantastically well in the ratings ... I have no reason to be sad!

Robert Stack

#46. I don't think my background in Zambia has really affected my lens because my classical training has been Western-style. But it's fantastically fortuitous to have been born African because I don't feel I have a vested interest to the U.S. or China or wherever.

Dambisa Moyo

#47. The chances of each of us coming into existence are infinitesimally small, and even though we shall all die some day, we should count ourselves fantastically lucky to get our decades in the sun.

Richard Dawkins

#48. Scamorza, an Italian curd cheese often labelled 'smoked mozzarella,' melts fantastically well.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#49. Somerset is the first proper country county you come to in the West, which isn't dependent on London and isn't full of commuters. Somerset is full of the most fantastically interesting people.

Charles Hazlewood

#50. The vast marble dome of the State House stood out in massive silhouette, its crowning statue haloed fantastically by a break in one of the tinted stratus clouds that barred the flaming sky. When

H.P. Lovecraft

#51. Stories are like islands, go out exploring and you're bound to get lost fantastically.

M. Robert Randolph

#52. I considered several names, but Titania, a character from Shakespeare's 'Midsummer Night's Dream', was best able to portray the image I wanted for what is a fantastically elegant and sexy yacht.

John Caudwell

#53. Sometimes reality is a fantastically traumatic nightmare.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#54. 'Greek Street' is a very strange beast. I think of it as 'The Long Good Friday' meets 'Agamemnon.' A way of using those fantastically rich stories from Greek tragedy to take a look at our world and to explore some of the things I think about this world.

Peter Milligan

#55. If I see an orchid that's fantastically expensive, I'll buy it. It's worth it, for no other reason than it gives me pleasure.

Lee Radziwill

#56. In all my 'Bond' films, everything you see there is fantastically real.

John Glen

#57. Is a lifetime long enough to hold the regret that I have for that fantastically aborted but crazily sweet love affair?

Tennessee Williams

#58. Howie's troubles were a favorite family topic, and behind the shaking heads and oh it's so sads you could hear the joy pushing right up through because doesn't every family like having one person who's fucked up so fantastically that everyone else feels like a model citizen next to him?

Jennifer Egan

#59. I feel fantastically geeky. [But] I'm not one of those people who's enormously proud of being a geek, but nor am I particularly ashamed of it.

China Mieville

#60. The idea was fantastically, wildly improbable. But like most fantastically, wildly improbable ideas it was at least as worthy of consideration as a more mundane one to which the facts had been strenuously bent to fit.

Douglas Adams

#61. There have been a lot of stories written about me, some of them fantastically distorted.

Judy Garland

#62. The real problem with all drugs is that they work. Fantastically. They're great, right up until the moment they kill you.

Aaron Sorkin

#63. I'm not particularly a football fan, but I live in north London, and I can hear when Arsenal score, and it's fantastically exciting. Down the road you can hear the roar.

Mike Newell

#64. You said 'God is cruel' the way a person who's lived his whole life on Tahiti might say 'Snow is cold'. You knew, but you didn't understand." He stepped close to David and put his palms on the boy's cold cheeks. "Do you know how cruel your God can be, David. How fantastically cruel?

Stephen King

#65. Our society is very, very good at developing certain types of skills and certain types of genius. We are fantastically good at identifying and developing athletic skills - better than we are, really, at almost anything else. We are quite good at developing and rewarding inventiveness.

Bill James

#66. Do you know how cruel your God can be, David. How fantastically cruel? ... Sometimes he makes us live.

Stephen King

#67. The Bad Lands grade all the way from those that are almost rolling in character to those that are so fantastically broken in form and so bizarre in color as to seem hardly properly to belong to this earth.

Theodore Roosevelt

#68. I think it's fantastically narcissistic to believe that in the entire universe, with all of the planetary systems that we've already discovered and the countless others that are out there, that we are the only forms of life.

Ian Bremmer

#69. I always got very nervous whenever I heard that Margo was about to show up, on account of how she was the most fantastically gorgeous creature that God has ever created.

John Green

#70. I can't actually read interviews with thesps now because they're almost always fantastically predictable, the men especially. Actors are forever stressing their ordinariness, their beer and football-loving commitments.

Peter York

#71. Every year it seems to me I hear complaints about spring. It is either "late" or "unusually cold," "abnormally dry" or "fantastically wet," for no one is ever willing to admit that there is no such thing as a normal spring.

Thalassa Cruso

#72. Art at its greatest is fantastically deceitful and complex.

Vladimir Nabokov

#73. The relationship between Britain and the US is fantastically important when confronting terrorism.

Tony Blair

#74. Our society is intertwined with the economy that we've built, which is a fantastically complex system. I hope that my writing about it might do some good, but that's not why I do it.

Tim Harford

#75. She felt about a love set as a painter does about his masterpiece; each ace serve was a form of brushwork to her, and her fantastically accurate shot-placing was certainly a study in composition.

Janet Flanner

#76. There were a lot of gifted amateurs in my day. Most of the kids now play fantastically well. I think there are so many bands around now who might get there, but it's a tougher journey.

Nick Mason

#77. The fact that someone had decided I'd be safer on Mars, where you could still only SORT OF breathe the air and SORT OF not get sunburned to death, was a sign that the war with the aliens was not going fantastically well.

Sophia McDougall

#78. The fantastically wasteful prodigality of human tongues, the Babel enigman, points to a vital multiplication of mortal liberties. Each language speaks the world in its own ways. Each edifies worlds and counter-worlds in its own mode. The polyglot is a freer man.

George Steiner

#79. I wondered over again for the hundredth time what could be the principle which, in the wildest, most lawless, fantastically chaotic, apparently capricious work of Nature, always kept it beautiful.

George MacDonald

#80. 'Zero Dark Thirty' is a disturbing, fantastically-made movie. It will make you hate torture.

Michael Moore

#81. To my mind there are not enough things that show the Nazis as human, as smart people, charismatic people, who are not inhuman naturally. But who are able to be fantastically inhuman when they choose to be.

Martin Freeman

#82. Have you tried the cinnamon things?" Poppet asks. "They're rather new. What are they called, Widge?"
"Fantastically delicious cinnamon things?

Erin Morgenstern

#83. What's wrong?"
"Nothing," I said. Because nothing was wrong. For the first time in my entire life, it seemed, everything was suddenly, fantastically right.

Meg Cabot

#84. Down the steep track into the village a car was coming. A car so fantastically powerful, so superlatively beautiful that it had all the nature of an apparition.

Agatha Christie

#85. It was like a bad dream, in which people one knew quite well behaved fantastically, and one was powerless to escape from some dreadful doom.

Georgette Heyer

#86. I don't see a difference between playing a performance capture role and a live action role, they're just characters to me at the end of the day and I'm an actor who wants to explore those characters in fantastically written scripts. The only caveat is a good story is a good character.

Andy Serkis

#87. Just thinking about all that blood." I nearly shudder. "Doesn't it make you a bit squeamish?"
"Ladies haven't the luxury of being squeamish about blood," she replies, and Percy and I go fantastically red in unison.

Mackenzi Lee