Quotes About Fantasy

Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build, too.

A dream is a kind of nocturnal drama to which the only price of admission is falling asleep.

The Western impression of Africa and Asia was that they were hazardous and uncivilized, full of gargantuan lizards, men with the heads of dogs, eels many hundreds of feet long, and creatures like the monoceros, which was alleged to have a stag's head, the body of a horse, and feet like an elephant's. The

Richard Dyer (1985) tells us that entertainment embodies "what utopia would feel like rather than how it would be organised.

The more a man dreams, the less he believes

Dreams seem to have a will of their own.

There will be no real life There will be the alcohol circus

Romance is the poetry of literature.

She was, every time she saw him, making the picture of him in her imagination (incomparably superior, impossible in reality) fit with him as he really was

you wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent

The Dream" "O I had such a wonderful dream, she said. I dreamed you made love to me. At last, he said to himself, the spirit has taken up some of the heavy work.

Jos pääni hohtaisi ja ihmiset alkaisivat tuijottaa rautiovaunuissa; ja voisin venyttää vartaloni läpi kirkkaan veden sekä viipyä kalojen ja rantakäärmeiden rinnalla; jos voisin turmella sulkani lennolla auringon edessä; luuletko että pysyisin tässä huoneessa, lausumassa sinulle runoja, kehitellen hävyttömiä fantasioita huultesi vähäisimmistäkin liikkeistä?

Fantasy is storytelling with the beguiling power to transform the impossible into the imaginable, and to reveal our own "real" world in a fresh and truth-bearing light.

The idea is more horny on paper than in practice.

La Sicilia è tutta una dimensione fantastica: e come ci si può star dentro senza fantasia?

La Sicilia è tutta una fantastica dimensione: e come ci si può star dentro senza fantasia?

Wouldn't it be wonderful if I won a helicopter in a crossword puzzle competition? There is not much hope though I am afraid, as they never give such practical prizes.

Whatever your sex fantasy is with your partner, consider it normal.

I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination.

Tolkienist (n.) Someone who studies the works of J. R. R. Tolkien.

There are no rational means of predicting 'the future of humanity' over a long period or foretelling the nature of 'social formations' in ages to come. The idea that we can make such forecasts 'scientifically', and that without doing so we cannot even understand the past, is inherent in the Marxist theory of 'social formations'; it is one reason why that theory is a fantasy, and also why it is politically effective.

I loved fantasy, but I particularly loved the stories in which somebody got out of where they were and into somewhere better - as in the 'Chronicles Of Narnia ' 'The Wizard Of Oz ' 'The Phantom Tollbooth ' the 'Dungeons &amp Dragons' cartoon on Saturday morning in the '80s.

Growing up in the '70s and '80s, science fiction and especially fantasy had such a stigma attached to them. I felt so punished and exiled for being devoted to these things.

we among all animals were cursed with a longing for somewhere better, somewhere that never existed and never would.