Quotes About Fantasy

They love their delusions as they love themselves.

She said, I wish I had been born poor. (I wish I'd been born an Indian - Robert Kennedy.) The ideal would have been to be born poor and black. But the counterculture was full of people in the grip of the same fantasy, with some - from street fighters to rock stars to flower children - even starting to believe they were black.

Here are more lines from The Great Gatsby. I liked to walk up Fifth Avenue and pick out romantic women from the crowd and imagine that in a few minutes I was going to enter into their lives, and no one would ever know or disapprove. I like to remember when I was one of them, or to pretend that I am one of them still, sensing that restless man at my back and half turning, no, turning all the way, open-armed, saying, Pick me, pick me .

But there lingers over all the fog of the unreal. At times it's as if I truly am in a fairy tale.

At times it occurs to all of us that it is downright trivial for 2 and 2 to make 4…After all, we have all experienced at least a passing feeling, a longing for a far distant dreamland where 2 and 2 make whatever we wish them to make.

Glamour could be defined as the lie you tell so well you believe it yourself, and make others believe it too.

Today's readers can be roughly divided into two groups, those who accept the fantasy villains of childhood, as in the James Bond stories and Arnold Schwarzenegger films, and those who insist on credibility.

Because it's human nature to hope for impossible things.

Every woman in the world sometimes thinks about shoes in the middle of sex. It's a well-known fact.

The possibilities in my head are getting more and more far-fetched, but I can't give up on them.

fallen asleep, because I could have sworn I was receiving an Oscar from the Queen.

What's this? Dumbledore?

11:06–11:12 daydreamed about bumping into George Clooney in street 11:12–11:18 attempted to touch nose with tongue

You're in love with impossibility

You're dreaming, girl, lost in a moving dream.

Young people don't have a fantasy life anymore, not the way we did. All they've got is Kojak and Dirty Harry. There's all these kids running around wanting to be killer cops.

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

In order to have a real life of any romance, there has to be a level of fantasy.

I don't think you can have an imagination without having fantasy, and you can't have that rich a life without an imagination.

It's not like most people read anymore. Well, not unless the book has a wizard school or a hot vampire. And, as a Kari Kngsley expert, I'm absolutely certain your life has neither of those things.

Movies and novels, the two things that informed and taught me the most, are forms of escapism. I thought that was how life could look if you wanted it to.

This is what happens when you live in dreams, he thought: you dream this and you dream that and you sleep right through your life.

When she wanted to escape her life, she read books

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.