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Quotes About Fantasy

He'd have been a little bit happier if there'd been a demon or some sort of magic. Something simple and understandable. He didn't like the idea of meddling in science.
~ Terry Pratchett
Live in dreams for too long and ye go mad—ye can never wake up prop'ly, ye can never get the hang o' reality again.
~ Terry Pratchett
Well, these guys believe that if you die in battle, some big fat singing horned women carry you off to a sort of giant feast hall where you gobble yourself silly for the rest of eternity, said the rave. It belched genteeley. Damn stupid idea, really. But it just happened! Still a daft idea.
~ Terry Pratchett
The Fool held his breath. On long nights on the hard flagstones he had dreamed of women like her. Although, if he really thought about it, not much like her; they were better endowed around the chest, their noses weren't so red and pointed, and their hair tended to flow more. But the Fool's libido was bright enough to tell the difference between the impossible and the conceivably attainable, and hurriedly cut in some filter circuits.
~ Terry Pratchett
You're hearing things said the voice in Rincewind's head.
~ Terry Pratchett
There is a phrase neither flesh nor fowl nor good red herring. This thing was all of them, plus some other bits of beasts unknown to science or nightmare or even kebab. There was certainly some red, and a lot of flapping, and Nutt was sure he caught a glimpse of an enormous sandal...
~ Terry Pratchett
They'd saved the city with gold more easily, at that point, than any hero could have managed with steel. But, in truth, it had not exactly been gold, or even the promise of gold, but more like the fantasy of gold, the fairy dream that the gold is there, at the end of the rainbow, and will continue to be there forever—provided, naturally, that you don't go and look. This is known as Finance.
~ Terry Pratchett
Somebody spoke and I went into a dream.
~ The Beatles
And somebody spoke and I went into a dream
~ The Beatles
Picture yourself in a boat on a river With tangerine trees and marmalade skies. Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly. A girl with kaleidoscope eyes
~ The Beatles
In 'Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell,' I wanted to create the most convincing story of magic and magicians that I could.
~ Susanna Clarke
I just wanted to jump out of my body sometimes and be someone else.
~ Adwoa Aboah
Maybe it's my freak flag that, when I go to a haunted mansion, I would rather blend in with them and be part of the story rather than have someone jump out at me. To be part of the fantasy seems way more interesting to me, to embed myself in there and just drop in, in that way.
~ Jimmi Simpson
Everything about doing 'Jurassic World' was a dream come true.
~ Bryce Dallas Howard
Everyone likes fantasy to get away from everyday life, but I think 'Game of Thrones' is not like fairies and unicorns. It's very relatable to everyday life. It's not too fantastic - just a little bit.
~ Kristian Nairn
I can't always say that justice is always done in 'Game of Thrones.' It is not.
~ Gemma Whelan
Keeping the facts differentiated from the fantasy is incredibly helpful in gathering your information as you discover if a person is a match for you.
~ Tracee Ellis Ross
One of the great kicks of having a movie made is that you envision this world.
~ Peter Hedges
I guess I kind of lived in a fairytale world... looking at everything through rose-colored glasses. I probably always will, to a certain extent.
~ Sharon Tate
People have the illusion that all over the world, all the time, all kinds of fantastic things are happening. When in fact, over most of the world, most of the time, nothing is happening.
~ David Brinkley
There's an element of fantasy in both 'Animal Kingdom' and 'Peaky Blinders' but they're both real in lots of ways.
~ Finn Cole
You make kingdoms and castles on your own.
~ Stephan Jenkins
I was not trying to write some sort of serious meditation on war and peace. 'The Grace of Kings' is meant to be a fun book. It's meant to be an epic fantasy.
~ Ken Liu
Come on, you can't do a film about an upside-down world and not have an upside-down kiss!
~ Jim Sturgess