Quotes About Fantasy

To me in my childhood, elves and fairies of all sorts were very real things, and my dolls were as really children as I was myself a child.

Will laughed. 'You're quite a dreamer, Abbie-girl.' Abbie did not laugh. She was suddenly very sober. 'You have to, Will.' She said it a little vehemently. 'You have to dream things out. It keeps a kind of ideal before you.

Everybody always wants to be a mermaid

often women aren't allowed to be characters in history, they have to be stereotypes. Cleopatra was a poet and a philosopher, she was incredibly good at maths; she wasn't that much of a looker. But when we think of her, we think: big breasted seductress bathing in milk. Often, even when women have made their mark and they are remembered by history, we are offered a fantasy version of their lives.

The popularity of Tolkien, of "Star Wars," of "The Empire Strikes Back" shows that young people have a tremendous need for this fantastic elevation of good against evil, where good wins out, but the battle always has to begin anew.

Having an orgasm with a new fantasy is every bit as good as having sex with a new lover. Some times it's even hotter. People can be so unpredictable, but I can always count on myself.

Those of us who believe in princesses are often laughed at. But I believe the world needs princesses and dukes and queens and kings. We need people who glitter and shine and make a room silent with their entrance. We need them the same way we need ice cream and soccer and music and stories. Oh, how we need stories.

All four of them looked at Diane as if she had said Kendel had just returned from her trip and had brought them a unicorn skeleton.

I don't think we should have a dinosaur that poops kids.

Las sergas de Esplandian,

The divorced Indian lady combines every fantasy about the liberated, wicked Western woman with the safety net of basic submissive familiarity.

The idea that we can wipe out every vestige of Iran's influence in Iraq is a fantasy. Even with 160,000 American troops in Iraq, Prime Minister Maliki, our ally in Baghdad greets Iran's leader with kisses. Like it or not, Iran is a major regional power and it shares a long border – and a long history – with Iraq.

Sometimes you wake up in the morning and wish your parents had never met.

So many of us live in a "virtual reality;" it feels real and looks real, but it isn't real.

Only silly Dorothys arrive in a magical land and want to go home. You don't want to be a silly stinking Dorothy, do you? They're reviled throughout every wondrous land. Did you know the name Dorothy translates as "squandered opportunity"?

I'm here because all fairy tales take place in the woods, King Cole, even those that don't.

Everyone is worthy of finding love and enjoying escapist fantasies of a life of dancing, romance, and ambition.

Well, I think it's incredibly important that when we are indulging ourselves in these kind of great, big Cinderella fantasies, that everyone gets to see themselves as worthy of status and glamour and love and redemption.

Game of Thrones' really opened the door. It let people see that genre shows are worthy.

Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet.

If I wasn't a singer, I would be a fairy princess.

When I watch movies or TV, I am like, 'Wow that guy is really cute, I really like him,' but I don't really have one person that I would die to go to something with. There are so many hot guys.

I'm a massive 'WoW' nerd, and gamer in general.

I had heard stories about witches flying on a broom as a kid and I would always think, wow, they had their own private jet.