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Quotes About Fantasy

Chez les uns, c'est un retour aux âge consommés, aux civilisations disparues, aux temps morts ; Chez les autres, c'est un élancement vers le fantastique et vers le rêve, c'est une vision plus ou moins intense d'un temps à éclore dont l'image reproduit, sans qu'il le sache, par un effet d'atavisme, celle des époques révolues.
~ Joris-Karl Huysmans
Nine-tenths of that which is attributed to sexuality is the work of our magnificent ability to imagine, which is no longer an instinct, but exactly the opposite: a creation.
~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
es, de fantasía, y aún hay que añadir, de una fantasía mudadiza que hoy imagina un mundo físico distinto del de ayer y mañana imaginará otro distinto del de hoy.
~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
We fall in love when our imagination projects nonexistent perfection upon another person. One day, the fantasy evaporates and with it, love dies.
~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
Day and night I always dream with open eyes.
~ Jose Marti
She was holding the Starblade. It was Alice.
~ Joseph Delaney
The facts shouldn't get in the way of a pleasant fantasy.
~ Joseph E. Stiglitz
Getting rid of most of my personal library comported nicely with my longheld fantasy of traveling light, existing with minimal encumbrances, living simply. A fantasy it has always been, for the longr I have lived, the heavier has my equipage grown.
~ Joseph Epstein
Then the ogre fell down and broke his crown, and the beanstalk came toppling after.
~ Joseph Jacobs
i wish i could live in my dream.
~ Joseph Mathew
flying hedgehogs.
~ Erin Hunter
That sounds great, Flipclaw, but unfortunately, we can't all live inside your imagination. Only you can live there.
~ Erin Hunter
Dreams? What's the point of that? I dreamed I killed a huge eagle and ate it all myself, but I was still hungry when I woke up!
~ Erin Hunter
My name is Echo. I dream of cats with stars in their fur.
~ Erin Hunter
I have absurdly vivid dreams.
~ Erin Morgenstern
To someone who's playing a game for the first time, the world is vital to creating and sustaining her interest. The other purpose of a game's world is to sell the game in the first place. It's not the game's mechanics that make a customer pick up a box in a store but the fantasy it offers: who she'll be, where she'll be, and what she'll be doing there if she plays that game. The
~ Ernest Adams
For one quarter, Black Tiger lets me escape from my rotten existence for three glorious hours. Pretty good deal.
~ Ernest Cline
If it weren't for Tolkien, all of us nerds would've had a lot less fun during the last ninety years.
~ Ernest Cline
At the end of the day, I was still a virgin, all alone in a dark room, humping a lubed-up robot.
~ Ernest Cline
The OASIS lets you be whoever you want to be. That's why everyone is addicted to it.
~ Ernest Cline
You don't live in the real world, Z. From what you've told me, I don't think you ever have. You're like me. You live inside this illusion." She motioned to our virtual surroundings.
~ Ernest Cline
I had spent hundreds of hours gazing out at the calm, conquered suburban landscape surrounding my school, silently yearning for the outbreak of a zombie apocalypse, a freak accident that would give me super powers, or perhaps the sudden appearance of a band of time-traveling kleptomaniac dwarves.
~ Ernest Cline
Middle Earth. Vulcan. Pern. Arrakis. Magrathea. Discworld, Mid-World, Riverworld, Ringworld. Worlds upon worlds.
~ Ernest Cline
Over the past five years, I'd worked my way down the entire recommended gunter reading list. Douglas Adams. Kurt Vonnegut. Neal Stephenson. Richard K. Morgan. Stephen King. Orson Scott Card. Terry Pratchett. Terry Brooks. Bester, Bradbury, Haldeman, Heinlein, Tolkien, Vance, Gibson, Gaiman, Sterling, Moorcock, Scalzi, Zelazny.
~ Ernest Cline