Quotes About Fantasy

a scattering of schizophrenic first worlders who have long ago burned their brains to ash in the radiant heat of their own imaginings

It breaks the metaphor. The avatar is not acting like a real body. It reminds all The Black Sun's patrons that they are living in a fantasy world. People hate to be reminded of this.

As soon as you open the door wide enough to admit pink nerve-gas-farting dragons, you have let in all of those other possibilities as well.

What's an adventure?" Nell said. The word was written across the page. Then both pages filled with moving pictures of glorious things: girls in armor fighting dragons with

If you don't run with this crowd, you might assume that SF is an abbreviation of Science Fiction. But here it means Speculative Fiction. This coinage is a way to cope with the problem that Science Fiction is mysteriously, inextricably conjoined with the seemingly unrelated literature of Fantasy. Many who are fond of one are fond of the other, to the point where they perceive them as The Same Thing in spite of the fact that they seem quite different to non-fans.

scattering of schizophrenic first worlders who have long ago burned their brains to ash in the radiant heat of their own imaginings.

I smile to myself. I have a secret: I wish I was Dumbo the Octopus.

When I was a kid I read these books, the Redwall books, fantasy books about a bunch of warrior mice, and the mice had this war cry that I always thought was cool: "Eulalia." And like an idiot, that's what I yelled off the Brooklyn Bridge: Eulaliaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

THE LAND OF DREAMS Sleep, sleep, It will carry you Into the land of wonderful dreams. The future is waiting for you there— Your future, And your family. Yuma

But the truth is that the fantasy is often better than the reality. I had just learned that lesson. Most men eventually learn that lesson. Mystery may have thought he wanted to live with two girls who love each other as much as they love him, but chances are they'd get on his nerves, team up against him, and eventually make him just as miserable as he'd been with Katya.

Tolkien said, 'It doesn't do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations if you live near him.

Into the world of romance, of make-belief and double brandies!

It was easy to idealize someone you barely knew.

And for an instant, I fantasized about wrapping my arms around her right then and there.

A girl needs to be able to dream, you know ?

I wanted to be her; I wanted to write her. Red Sonja became anchored in my imagination like a mountain.

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

As a first movie, 'The Hobbit' is not a bad place to start.

'Game of Thrones' has multiple story lines, multiple countries, and it's complete fantasy.

With 'The Mummy' it was a fantasy action adventure. You get taken away for a few hours and come out and feel revamped and ready to go into the world and enjoy your next day at work.

I don't often know exactly what's coming next, and that makes it more fun. And you know, for me, this entire genre is all about that; it's all about having fun and getting away from the mundane world for just a little while.

I'd really like having a couple days of being a rock star, although I'd rather be a backup - like maybe the drummer for Muse... It would also be fun to be gorgeous, like be Charlize Theron, just for a couple of days.

I definitely think my work comes from things that I liked as a kid, and things I still like now. Monsters and magic and museums and movies, a lot of things that start with 'M' for some reason.

My fantasy had always been making a music video and performing with music that I had created.