Quotes About Fantasy

What is most disturbing, apart from the fact that millions of Americans already believe in the imminent end of days, is that the mainstream media confer respectability on such bizarre fantasies by taking them seriously.

I had reached up and pulled the castle of dreams down around him.

She had spent the last six months of her senior year counting down the days, literally wrote the number on a jotter next to her bed every morning. She thought once she'd escaped that prison, her life would suddenly become fantastic, but it hadn't turned out that way.

what you can still dream about is often sweeter than the reality.

An Elf-Woman went by him, seated in a chair that moved along by itself, humming as it went. An Elf-Man walked by the other way, talking into a—a far-speak, but one that had no leash fastening it to the wall. Two Elf-Women each carried huge bunches of giant, fiercely colored Elvish flowers. And all the time the air twittered and beeped and hissed and buzzed.

The reality of suicide is far different from the fantasy. Most suicidal thinkers romanticize their death by suicide, failing to realize that any suicide gesture or attempt can result in permanent brain, kidney, or liver damage, loss of limbs, blindness, or even death.

We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed, destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large rations by the popular arts, which allows most people to cope with these twin specters.

Show me a woman who hasn't fantasized about getting in the car and leaving home, and I'll show you a woman who doesn't know how to drive.

We all want to be rich for free.

This is a book. Only make-believe. Remember?

If I could have any job in the world I'd be a professional Cinderella.

People who love science fiction really do love sex.

Real or not real?

We're supposed to be making up this stuff, playing at being in love, not actually being in love.

I'm on a frosting sailboat, tossed around by blue-green waves, the deck shifting beneath my feet.

DL: I am now trying to summon an alternate universe where the Mockingjay is named Swamp Potato Everdeen.

As happy as some daydream would make him, it only made returning to reality more painful.

They were never real lovers.

Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.

Imagination is linked as much to an awareness of the insufficiency of the world as we find it as it is to fantasy; it grows from a desire to assert contrary or alternative worlds in the face of the given.

How mad would it actually be to do an 'Avatar' type animation film, but about something mundane like a Winn-Dixie cashier's day at work? That'd be something else, I think.

'Tomorrowland' is very much the dream role for me. I've always wanted to do a movie like this. Movies like this aren't made anymore, and it's so cool that I get to be a part of it. I get to do something new and crazy every day, and my character goes through so many different things. I get to do all of it. It's awesome.

I'm somewhat in my own cloud.

Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.