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Quotes About Fantasy

Sometimes the chords were sonorous and melancholy. Occasionally they were fantastic and cheerful. Clearly they reflected the thoughts which possessed him
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Sin la imaginación no existe el miedo.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Where there is no imagination there is no horror.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
paradise cannot be constructed out of concrete.
~ Arthur Koestler
The fact that his discoveries are found in it once more side by side with his fantasies, does not detract from its value. It is precisely this overlapping of two universe of thought, which gives the Epitome, as it does to the whole of Kepler's life and work, its unique value to the history of ideas.
~ Arthur Koestler
There might be a dragon with five legs in my house, but no one has ever seen it.
~ Arthur Miller
It was like exploring a place that you have seen in a dream, where everything is just where you expect it and yet everything is a surprise.
~ Arthur Ransome
We're always trotting out some story of a ninety-seven-year-old who runs marathons, as if such cases were not miracles of biological luck but reasonable expectations for all. Then, when our bodies fail to live up to this fantasy, we feel as if we somehow have something to apologize for.
~ Atul Gawande
Discussing a fantasy was easier—less emotional, less explosive, less prone to misunderstanding—than discussing what was happening before my eyes.
~ Atul Gawande
How can you really miss something when you never experienced it?
~ Augusten Burroughs
Little Red Riding Hood was a good story, but it wasn't interactive. Sooner or later I wanted to say 'no, I may be Red Riding Hood but I don't care about my grandmother; what I want is heroin and only heroin,' whereas the game had only 'over the river and through the woods' to offer me. Which was a good story, it just might not me mine.
~ Austin Grossman
Although many pairs of lips spoke her name, none ever brought its reality to her.
~ Spider Robinson
No one gets a pain-free life. I know some girls' lives look pretty perfect from a distance, but only from a distance. You get close and you learn the truth. A life without suffering is a fantasy life, and you don't live in a fantasy.
~ Stasi Eldredge
The imagination is closer to the actor than real life-more agreeable, more comfortable.
~ Stella Adler
I'd like to extend a special thank you to my favorite sins: fairy tales and chick flicks.
~ Stephanie Fowers
pages of books--he steps inside magical stories, inviting readers to come along for the ride. Witty verse and verse and fantastical
~ Stephanie Lisa Tara
The outside lights were on, and it was snowing, and it looked like magic. Like we were somewhere else. Like we were someplace better.
~ Stephen Chbosky
I was looking at this tree but it was a dragon and then a tree
~ Stephen Chbosky
If I had one wish, it would be for self-drying pants. Wait -- no! Unlimited wishes! How do I return these stupid pants?!
~ Stephen Colbert
Not one word of the following is true
~ Stephen Fry
Maybe there's a whole other universe where a square moon rises in the sky, and the stars laugh in cold voices, and some of the triangles have four sides, and some have five, and some have five raised to the fifth power of sides. In this universe there might grow roses which sing. Everything leads to everything.
~ Stephen King
In this universe there might grow roses which sing.
~ Stephen King
Dreams, after all, are insubstantial things, like mist itself.
~ Stephen King
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
~ Stephen King