Quotes About A Fantasy

#1. Getting rid of most of my personal library comported nicely with my longheld fantasy of traveling light, existing with minimal encumbrances, living simply. A fantasy it has always been, for the longr I have lived, the heavier has my equipage grown.

Joseph Epstein

#2. Sylvia Day delivers readers to a fantasy world as unique as it is erotic! Ms. Day is an up-and-coming talent in the world of erotic fiction. [on Pleasures of the Night ]

Toni Blake

#3. I have too many fantasies to be a housewife ... I guess I am a fantasy.

Marilyn Monroe

#4. The Christian is not a Stoic. Neither does he flee into a fantasy world that denies the reality of suffering.

R.C. Sproul

#5. 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.

Marc Jacobs

#6. When you have a script, and you're discussing what it can be, and who going to play what role, that's a kind of like a fantasy football game. You can imagine these different dream teams interpreting these characters that only exist in your head.

Cary Fukunaga

#7. How can we not create a fantasy in our minds when the reality is so hard?

Lisa See

#8. I've never seen myself as a fantasy writer - ever.

Jonathan Carroll

#9. Playing baseball is not real life. It's a fantasy world ... It's a dream come true.

Dale Murphy

#10. Tell me your Dreams and I'll write you a Fantasy. Tell me your Fantasies and I'll paint you a Dream for the minds eye you can get lost in!

George H. W. Bush

#11. All of the problems we're facing with debt are manmade problems. We created them. It's called fantasy economics. Fantasy economics only works in a fantasy world. It doesn't work in reality.

Michele Bachmann

#12. I think literature is somehow both a fantasy and a reality we should all get back to.

Shane Warren Jones

#13. Wuxia is a fantasy world exists in everyone's mind.

Zhang Yimou

#14. Me, I was already jaded and tarnished, skeptical that a fantasy world could keep reality at bay.

Jodi Picoult

#15. Too many younger artists, critics, and curators are fetishizing the sixties, transforming the period into a deformed cult, a fantasy religion, a hip brand, and a crippling disease.

Jerry Saltz

#16. flashed a spreadsheet he'd created. "Hey, guys," he said, "I think we can build this rocket ourselves." Griffin and Cantrell had downed a couple of drinks by this time and were too deflated to entertain a fantasy.

Ashlee Vance

#17. If I were not so highly ranked and mature for two hundred, I would test the genetics and make a point out of telling the male that he had been rejected in favor of my sperm."
"You're having a fantasy about that right now, aren't you?" Liam asked.
"Yes

Lyn Gala

#18. No one has ever had a fantasy about being tied to a bed and sexually ravished by someone dressed as a liberal

P. J. O'Rourke

#19. When you're living your life in endurance mode, you don't expect anything good to happen. I'm not saying that you don't dream about some miracle that would change everything for the better. But you pretty much know it's only a fantasy, and that you have no real control over anything.

Nancy Werlin

#20. I don't want to live in a fantasy world.

Jeff Conaway

#21. In the recession people are going to be looking even more at what movie stars are wearing, as it provides a fantasy outlet.

Cher

#22. He was a mortal man with more flaws than bones, shackled to a fantasy of his own nightmare making.

V. Theia

#23. Nostalgia was nothing more than dissatisfaction with the present. Anything looked better than now, even harder times. It was a fantasy that people accept.

V.C. Andrews

#24. The biggest threat to a better life is the desire to keep the future under control - to make the world predictable by reining in creativity and enterprise. Progress as a neat blueprint, with no deviations and no surprise, may work in children's cartoons or utopian novels. But it's just a fantasy.

Virginia Postrel

#25. The school was nothing but reminiscence - of an Italian hill town, a French abbey, an English academy, the different sources improbably but convincingly melded into a fantasy about the classic sites of Europe as imagined by exiles from cold peripheral lands, nostalgia about somebody else's past.

Edmund White

#26. Women don't want to exchange places with men. Male chauvinists, science-fiction writers and comedians may favor that idea for its shock value, but psychologists say it is a fantasy based on ruling-class ego and guilt.

Gloria Steinem

#27. When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it - right away.

Stewart Brand

#28. When I write for kids, I have to make sure they know what can't happen. They have to know it's a fantasy. But when I write for adults, they have to think it's real. Every detail has to be real or they won't buy it.

R.L. Stine

#29. While girls average a healthy five hours a week on video games, boys average 13. The problem? The brain chemistry of video games stimulates feel-good dopamine that builds motivation to win in a fantasy while starving the parts of the brain focused on real-world motivation.

Warren Farrell

#30. I'm a fantasy writer. I don't do SF. This is important to me. If you're not clear on what genre you're in, everything gets muddled, and it's hard to know which rules you're breaking.

Lev Grossman

#31. I'm not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably get it published.

Lynn Abbey

#32. I love acting, especially if it's a fantasy of some kind, where it's not just realistic, it's not naturalism.

Gene Wilder

#33. Professional sports, in of itself, is a fantasy, for the majority of the population.

Gabriel Luna

#34. The idea of a world where all people are alike - in wealth or in anything else - is a fantasy for the stupid.

P. J. O'Rourke

#35. Let me tell you the truth: The truth is what is. And what should be is a fantasy a terrible, terrible lie that someone gave the people long ago.

Lenny Bruce

#36. As a kid, I lived in a fantasy world. I used to believe ants could talk. Not once did they say thank you.

Willard Wigan

#37. Play is always a fantasy, but once you get into the frame, it is quite real, and everything you do is real. You put acres and acres of real movement and real action and real belief in it.

Brian Sutton-Smith

#38. I'm only lookin' for a fantasy, an interlude from reality.

Rod Stewart

#39. When I was a kid, I really loved watching 'Cinderella.' It's a fantasy, and every girl knows that real life isn't always like these movies, but as a child, I just really loved the story of 'Cinderella.' I found it to be so romantic and just a beautiful movie to watch.

Sara Ramirez

#40. If nothing is more important to you than that you feel good, you can form a fantasy about someone who is in your life and they will begin to modify to meet your fantasy, because Law of Attraction is a very powerful thing.

Esther Hicks

#41. In our dreams and imagination we should live in a fantasy world to create a new reality.

Debasish Mridha

#42. The difference between a dream and a fantasy is action.

Orrin Woodward

#43. I liked a lot of Tyler's character, the rebelliousness and audaciousness of it, it's like a fantasy of myself, like yeah, I'm the kind of guy who just randomly gets in fights. Yeah, I do it all the time. But, not really.

Robert Pattinson

#44. It's hard out here for a fantasy writer, after all; there's all these 'rules' I'm supposed to follow, or the Fantasy Police might come and make me do hard labor in the Cold Iron Mines.

N.K. Jemisin

#45. Never much of a fantasy fan, I knew one thing for certain: Odell Greenry loved Precious every bit as much as Gollum loved his "precious." And while both objects of obsession could be possessed neither could be mastered.

Mandy Broughton

#46. I had never let myself fantasize about being with someone my own age, because it stopped being a fantasy at that point. It entered the realm of possibility, and that's where you can really get hurt.

Perry Moore

#47. We can't live in a fantasy. Reality may be hard, but it's all we have.

John Logan

#48. I want to be involved with young people in some way. Teenagers. Because that's the most vulnerable time. I have a fantasy of becoming a teacher one day.

Elisabeth Shue

#49. Film buffs who don't live in Hollywood have a fantasy about what it's like to be a director. Movies and the people who make movies have such glamour associated with them. But the truth is, it's not like that. It's very different. It's hard work.

John Carpenter

#50. To some I was a freak; to others, a fantasy. I was Satan or savior; a witch or a goddess. I was legend, I was lies. And tonight it really was, just all too much.

Gayle Ann Williams

#51. I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting.

Elizabeth Moon

#52. Unsuccessful people carry their goals around in their head like marbles rattling around in a can, and we say a goal that is not in writing is merely a fantasy.

Darren Hardy

#53. Victory is the thought transformation resulting from comprehending that physical immortality ... perpetual longevity, sans illness and aging ... eternal, healthy, youthful life in your living flesh ... is not a fantasy, but a practical and attainable possibility.

Linda Goodman

#54. A weakness of many of the self-oriented play theories is that they often sound too much like vain consumerism instead of being about the more passionate and willful character of human play, which involves a willingness, even if a fantasy, to believe in the play venture itself.

Brian Sutton-Smith

#55. A restaurant is a fantasy-a kind of living fantasy in which diners are the most important members of the cast.

Warner LeRoy

#56. Those who think godly living makes them invulnerable to trouble are living in a fantasy world. - 2 Timothy 3:12

Ray C. Stedman

#57. In these times of Darkness, I keep dreaming of a better tomorrow, and praying my soul won't be corrupted.
These are Gudrun's words and thoughts. She is living in a troubled world, where only the strong can be free.
She is a Fantasy character you find on The Art of Isis Sousa & Guests!

Isis Sousa

#58. It's my job, to create a fantasy.

Anne Heche

#59. Even though my songs may sound very personal, to me most of them are fiction. It is a great way for me to be able to live a fantasy life as a writer because I get to be someone else, someplace else for three and a half minutes, just like the listener.

Nanci Griffith

#60. Whether you're a history buff or a fantasy fan, Druon's epic will keep you turning pages. This was the original game of thrones. If you like 'A Song of Ice and Fire', you will love 'The Accursed Kings'.

George R R Martin

#61. I'm a firm believer that in-depth subjects can be better handled in a fantasy setting ... Let's face it, traveling to some far off land is a terrific way to break the mold, to do something different. Isn't that why we go on vacations?

Jim Starlin

#62. It does seem that a fantasy, working out in its own terms, stretching you beyond the normal concerns of your own life, gains you a peculiar charge of energy which inexplicably enriches you. At least, this is my ideal of a fantasy, and I am always trying to write it.

Diana Wynne Jones

#63. I had discovered that the plainest house can crown a fantasy or daydream. An open window can be tolerated. So can an open door. But I discovered the value of four walls and a roof. Something about containment that at the same time offers escape.

Lloyd Jones

#64. She was not taking up that subject with Ted. Not when she'd spent part of the time fighting a fantasy about hitting the sheets and the other part thinking about strangling him with them.

HelenKay Dimon

#65. Your whole life is nothing but a dream. You live in a fantasy where everything you know about yourself is only true for you. Your truth is not the truth for anyone else.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#66. Peace becomes a fantasy when egos are promoted and facts distorted.

Duop Chak Wuol

#67. Even in a fantasy realm, growing up is accomplished not without cost.

Lloyd Alexander

#68. Today is a fantasy for tomorrow has gone and yesterday is here!

Munia Khan

#69. For me, this is a fantasy. You're the fantasy. For you, this will be a mistake. A long, pleasurable mistake.

Katy Evans

#70. When you have indulged a lust, your wing drops off;
you become lame, abandoned by a fantasy.
... People fancy they are enjoying themselves,
but they are really tearing out their wings
for the sake of an illusion.

Rumi

#71. If you're speaking of a fantasy player, then it has to be Leo Messi as he's so unpredictable. He's an absolute genius.

Fabio Capello

#72. Art as a fantasy has been one of my earliest experiences. I suppose a lot of my childhood was a fantasy that involved getting away from things I didn't like. Fortunately it had some relationship to reality so that later I was able to, to some extent, act as I imagined I might.

Jasper Johns

#73. There's only so long you can live in a fantasy world before the reality comes along to sharply put you back in your place.

Giovanna Fletcher

#74. But I couldn't get the image out of my head of the beast strapped to the table, Father humming while the candle wax slowly dripped, and Montgomery assisting. I felt betrayed, as though the boy I'd idolized was nothing more than a fantasy.

Megan Shepherd

#75. I dont live in a fantasy; just a dream, that's to hard for some to believe.

Nikki Rowe

#76. I try to live instinctively. And I guess I've always enjoyed living in a fantasy world, daydreaming.

James Duval

#77. I started making houses for ants because I thought they needed somewhere to live. Then I made them shoes and hats. It was a fantasy world I escaped to where my dyslexia didn't hold me back and my teachers couldn't criticize me. That's how my career as a micro-sculptor began.

Willard Wigan

#78. So I was in America and I thought I'll stick around while I'm here and just see what happens. The next film I did was High Art, so I guess it started with a sort of vague idea but really just a fantasy.

Radha Mitchell

#79. EVERYTHING IN LIFE IS A FANTASY UNTIL YOU CHOOSE TO MAKE IT A REALITY.

Rob Dyrdek

#80. The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible. Or, what's impossible? What's a fantasy?

Alan Rickman

#81. The Company of Wolves doesn't belong in any category, so it's difficult to prepare an audience for it. It's not a horror film, it's not a fantasy film, it's not a children's film - so what is it?

Neil Jordan

#82. Sometimes you wait for your dreams to come true, but sometimes the dream is just a fantasy, when in the real world there are things or people who could make you happier than any of your wildest dreams ever could. You should not wait any more, young Suzie

Holly Martin

#83. If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.

Brandt Legg

#84. Every religion seems like a fantasy to outsiders, but as holy truth to those of the faith.

Isaac Asimov

#85. Fashion is not about buying a second skin. Fashion is about having a fantasy.

Alber Elbaz

#86. There's this idea that it's all natural, but everything's been staged to look natural. It is also an invention. It's just that my inventions are different. I often get asked about my artifice, but isn't fashion based on the idea that we can create a fantasy?

Lady Gaga

#87. To fulfil a fantasy is the quickest way to destroy it.

Duane Michals

#88. Ghosts, unicorns, and gods. That seemed much less of a fantasy than the twenty-first century.

Rick Riordan

#89. As Faulkner says, all of us have the capacity in us for great good and for great evil, for love but also for hate. I wanted to write those kinds of complex character in a fantasy, and not just have all the good people get together to fight the bad guy.

George R R Martin

#90. There's something very intimate about taking someone's work, turning it over and unpicking it. In the same way people have unique handwriting people have a sewing style. You do start building a fantasy relationship with the person.

Matt Smith

#91. People have a range of capacities to deal with overwhelming experience. Some people, some kids particularly, are able to disappear into a fantasy world, to dissociate, to pretend like it isnt happening, and are able to go on with their lives. And sometimes it comes back to haunt them.

Bessel Van Der Kolk

#92. I do have a fantasy life in which I can grout bathrooms - but not for a living.

Will Self

#93. I'm always playing characters with intellects profoundly superior to mine. That's great fun, even though it's as much a fantasy for me as for the people watching me.

Benedict Cumberbatch

#94. The reason is that even in a fantasy there is nothing even remotely erotic about a toilet bowl. In fact, considered as an accoutrement to a sexual encounter, a toilet bowl is a real cold shower.

Helen DeWitt

#95. Many people with jobs have a fantasy about all the amazing things they would do if they didn't need to work. In reality, if they had the drive and commitment to do actually do those things, they wouldn't let a job get in the way.

Paul Buchheit

#96. There is another component that makes us who we are. It is a fantasy comprising all of our actions and thoughts. It's called an opinion. And we will die for our opinion

Ruben Papian

#97. Medicine had granted permission to a fantasy that men have never abandoned, a muddled version of what Pygmalion wanted - something between a real woman and a beautiful thing.

Siri Hustvedt

#98. Yes, I read. And yes, I do it a lot. And yes, I did it before you because life can suck and living in a fantasy world is a lot more fun than living in the real world sometimes. This was not a weak choice, it was an informed one.

Kristen Ashley

#99. I'm now more about romantic beauty. The dominatrix thing is over. You never look as good in person as you do in 'Maxim,' but it's fun. It's all like a fantasy.

Julianna Guill

#100. Half of what I write is imaginative reality. The other half is realized impossibilities. Blended into one, these make a fantasy.

Nicole Sager