Quotes About Fantasy

Tanith has a sword.' said Valkyrie. 'I want a stick.' 'I'll get you a stick for Christmas

In my stories I can kiss the girls I want to kiss and punch the girls I want to punch. Nobody pays a price for it.

Dreams can be naught but an imagination's fashioning of its own fears

Dragonflies big enough to ride - imagine whizzing through the clouds, looking down on everything! Seeing how beautiful it all was, and then dropping hundreds of bombs on it.

Who in their dreams is not omnipotent? If in sleep I grow wings and fly high above the land, it does not mean I will awaken cloaked in feathers. We are gods in our dreams. Disaster strikes when we come to believe the same is true in our real lives.

They're not dream worlds, Feather Witch. They're real. In those places, we are the ghosts.

Who in there dreams is not omnipotent?

It's fucking raining dragons.   Quick

As the writer Arthur Koestler astutely observed, "Johannes Kepler became enamored with the Pythagorean dream, and on this foundation of fantasy, by methods of reasoning equally unsound, built the solid edifice of modern astronomy. It is one of the most astonishing episodes in the history of thought, and an antidote to the pious belief that the Progress of Science is governed by logic.

the method is still the same: appeal to weakness, bolster myth, and massage fantasy.

In dreams, we enter a world that's entirely our own.

What all this means is that learning the impossible is possible augments our ability to see ourselves doing the impossible, which triggers a systemic change in the body and the brain, which closes the gap between fantasy and reality. It also makes us significantly more flow prone.

pipe dream." This term meant the same then as it does today, a way of describing an irrational sense of optimism. Irrational or not, this is opium's greatest gift to the smoker: boundless optimism—the kind that one rarely experiences beyond childhood. All good things seem possible; problems are easily solvable; obstacles are always surmountable.

Un libro es una máquina para fabricar sueños. Está hecho para sacarte de este mundo.

Stories, like conjuring tricks, are invented because history is inadequate for our dreams.

The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.

Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about.

I just had a crazy, wild imagination all my life, and science fiction is the greatest outlet for me. Steven Spielberg

I had a dream that all the babies prevented by the pill showed up. They were mad.

Harold under his breath: "Ms. Yuka, I would love to kiss the backs of your legs while you were in line in a bank.

Away with them, away; we should not believe fairy stories if we wish to be good. Think of them as persons from the fairy wood.

Any man worth my love lives only in storybooks.

Beth was a pleasurable fantasy, but I liked to think she looked upon me as an imaginary friend.

Their language is that of dreams and memories.