Quotes About Fantasists

#1. President Bush cruelly manipulated the grief of the American people - and the sympathy of the rest of the world - to introduce a 'world order' dreamed up by a clutch of fantasists advising the Secretary of Defence, Donald Rumsfeld.

Robert Fisk

#2. Travelers are fantasists, conjurers, seers - and what they finally discover is that every round object everywhere is a crystal ball: stone, teapot, the marvelous globe of the human eye.

Cynthia Ozick

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

#4. Like all great fantasists, he has taught me about life, life in eternity rather than chronology, life in that time in which we are real.

Madeleine L'Engle

#5. Fantasists aren't natural readers. They grow restive easily.

Amit Chaudhuri

#6. Academic institutions in Britain have been infiltrated for years by dangerous theocratic fantasists. I should know: I was one of them.

Maajid Nawaz

#7. Ghetto-dwellers are the great fantasists. There was an extraordinary vibrancy there, an imaginative life. When you are that poor, all you've got left is your belief in the imagination.

Ben Okri

#8. Many children are natural fantasists, I think, perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience.

David Mitchell

#9. Our most serious problem, perhaps, is that we have become a nation of fantasists. We believe, apparently, in the infinite availability of finite resources.

Wendell Berry

#10. A mind without freedom, a life without liberty, is like a heart without love, a journey without a destination.

Debasish Mridha

#11. I am so pathetic with machines in real life, it's not a joke. I'd rather walk, or even run, than take the car out myself. I like to be driven around. Yes, I like fancy cars, and fancy bikes, too. It's my dream to learn how to ride one myself, but for now, I am content being driven around.

Bipasha Basu

#12. The silence of snow, thought the man sitting just behind the bus driver.

Orhan Pamuk

#13. Not everyone should smoke a pipe, but everyone should be encouraged to appreciate a pipe-smoker.

Uri Brito

#14. Get a move on, pal, life goes on happening while you're hiding ...

Dawn French

#15. Remember this, the choices you make in life, make you.

John Wooden

#16. My songwriting has evolved, just as I've evolved as a person.

John Oates

#17. Acne affects the skin's oil glands, which can over produce an oil called 'sebum'.

Miles Reise

#18. Georgian England, to see those wonderful houses being built. And the clothes were interesting too, although I wouldn't want to wear a wig. It's also the most beautiful period of English landscape gardening. They had famous gardeners like Capability Brown.

Alan Titchmarsh

#19. My kids have become wonderful dancers themselves and enjoy teaching just as much as I do.

Bobby Burgess