Quotes About Flights Of Fancy

#1. Some might think that the creativity, imagination, and flights of fancy that give my life meaning are insanity.

Vladimir Nabokov

#2. If I'm crisp and economical in my delivery, have smooth transitions, movement and animation, and flights of fancy, that would get me an A.

Franklyn Ajaye

#3. Numbers serve to discipline rhetoric. Without them it is too easy to follow flights of fancy, to ignore the world as it is and to remold it nearer the heart's desire.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4. Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption.

Ian Hacking

#5. Adept as he was in the Hegelian dialectic - a system easy of abuse by those who seek to dominate thought by arbitrary flights of fancy and metaphysical verbosity - he was not slow in finding a way out of the dilemma in which socialists found themselves.

Ludwig Von Mises

#6. A novel wouldn't be a book if there weren't some flights of fancy on the part of the author, stopping time to examine things, or to tell a joke.

Ned Vizzini

#7. The game Flights of Fancy or Reverse Strip Jump is played from as high a jumping-point as a competitor will dare. After each successful jump, the competitor is allowing to put on an article of clothing. Thirteen jumps is normally more than enough to see a competitor fully dressed for the day.

Peter Greenaway

#8. It is true that writers often owe their most inspired thoughts, their most extraordinary phrases, to their generous typesetters, who assist their flights of fancy with so-called typographical errors.

E.T.A. Hoffmann

#9. 'Star Wars' is such a phenomenal global supernova that anything that gets said about it becomes kind of fact and gospel, and then taken by the legions of fans who are so excited to have more 'Star Wars,' that they roll off on all sorts of flights of fancy.

Seth Green

#10. I don't think of myself as a metafictional writer at all. I think of myself as a classic writer, a realist writer, who tends to have flights of fancy at times, but nevertheless, my feet are mostly on the ground.

Paul Auster

#11. Culture is that which falsifies.

Kathy Acker

#12. Yes. I guess it's the foolish romantic in me, but you see, I don't think that sex is my Muse.

Peter Murphy

#13. Mystery is delightful, but unscientific, since it depends upon ignorance.

Bertrand Russell

#14. A story without an ending is an unbearable itch to the reader.

K.J. Charles

#15. If you have people that totally support you and have your back, I feel like you have all the confidence in the world, and you believe that you can do things that most people can't achieve. I feel that's really important.

Nicolas Cage

#16. It is well to fetter the wings of our fancy and restrain its flights.

Edward E. Barnard

#17. For many women today, on a personal level, the problem is not male dominance so much as male desertion.

Nancy Pearcey

#18. It creates a secret you're too beautiful to keep

Cheryl Strayed

#19. He respected a person's right to weakness.

Jami Attenberg