Quotes About Fantasy

When I was younger, I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do, but I told a lot of lies in school. I told my friends once that I was playing John Travolta's daughter in a movie. I also told people that I had this romantic affair with Jonathan Taylor Thomas over a summer.

I can read Middle English stories, Geoffrey Chaucer or Sir Thomas Malory, but once I start moving in the direction of contemporary fantasy, my mind begins to take over.

'A Court of Thorns and Roses,' big surprise, was inspired by music. By actually listening to the 'Princess Mononoke' soundtrack.

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.

I'm a massive daydreamer. I'm constantly lost within my own fantasies and my own thoughts personally, and I think maybe that is sort of represented in what we do for a living, the fact that we make believe everything and we escape into these other characters for a living.

There are fairies at the bottom of our garden!

No one who sees the plain fact that all moral and spiritual values of human life are in the individual, can possibly see any spiritual value in war. War comes from the individual's ignorance of his own nature, from his placing responsibility for the moral values of his own life in a fantasy, in a pagan god which he imagines exists outside himself and superior to him and controlling him—an Immortal Italy, a German Race, a Nation, a State.

The fantastic cannot exist independently of that 'real' world which it seems to find frustratingly finite.

In the tales he concocted about his adoptive family, Stanley claimed to be raised by parents who taught self-control. The dying words he ascribed to his fantasy mother were "Be a good boy.

Just as Saint Augustine recognized that sin begins as an intention, we profilers saw that violent sexual crimes originate in fantasy. Our next challenge was to understand why certain individuals allowed their fantasies to lead them to cross the normal bounds of acceptable behavior. To do that, we had to examine their motivations.

What then, is dark fantasy? I would argue that it is a genre of fantasy whose protagonists inhabit the world of consensual mundane reality and learn otherwise, not by walking through a portal into some other world, or by being devoured or destroyed irrevocably, but by learning to live with new knowledge and sometimes with new flesh.

Todo lo que vemos o nos parece, no es sino un ensueño en un ensueño!

Sonhar é uma forma de viver.

Literatura é sempre sobre o que não é. É um bruxedo para o retorno do que já foi.

a sua alma sabe o que merece ser lembrado. Esquecem-se do que aconteceu ontem, mas se lembram do que aconteceu há muito tempo, como se fosse hoje. Minha alma tem estado a visitar a minha infância. Fantasias.

Only in dreams does the happiness of the earth dwell.

Women are not in love with me but with the picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas on which women paint their dreams.

I'd like to have the flying car, I think that'd be really cool.

If you like Pina Coladas, and getting caught in the rain. If you're not into yoga, if you have half-a-brain. If you like making love at midnight, in the dunes of the cape. I'm the lady you've looked for, write to me, and escape.

It's fine to dream, provided we can deal with the reality when we wake up

Who is Alice?" asked mother. "Alice is somebody that nobody can see," said Frances. "And that is why she does not have a birthday. So I am singing Happy Thursday to her." - Frances the badger

Her eyes grew wide. "You've been undressing me with your eyes for all those months?" He offered a mischievous grin. "Oh, you have no idea what I've been doing with you in my mind.

What if I travel so far away in my dreams that I can't get back in time to wake up?

We always know when we are awake that we cannot be dreaming even though when actually dreaming we feel all this may be real.