Quotes About Fantasy

A man from the Land of Fools wanted to pull down the clouds. 'Why?' someone asked him. 'To squeeze out the rain.

Nothing, but a dream have I and so very precious it is to me.

When all else fails there's always delusion.

The aim here is not to separate fact from fantasy but to show how each embodies a distinct class of knowledge and how one is deeply implicated in the other.

I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination.

And what is love anyway but the unattainable, the reaching out toward an illusion?

As he began to drift again Jean was never sure whether he saw or did not see, a troupe of monkeys clad in blue Hussar coats piped with yellow twist, enter from a small door to swing across the great chamber and exit like nomadic wanderers into a great door emblazoned by the setting sun.

there's a goodlookin' woman behind every tree . . ." He joined me for the rest. "There just ain't any trees.

I'm getting a lot of stick because my character in 'Young Dracula' wanted to be vampire, so now that I am a vampire, everyone's like, 'You finally did it!' But it's cool and I loved doing 'Young Dracula.' That show's finished and I don't know why it ended, so it was brilliant to go into 'Being Human ' which is like the adult version of it.

Like, I know I'm unbearably obnoxious at home, but I'm actually pretty shy out there. I'm like the chubby quiet brown girl who is decent academically, but who never risks venturing an opinion. It's weird, because, like, in a world full of frost giants and dwarves and demons and spellcasting, my fantasies were really about being a confident, decisive person who had their shit together and was listened to.

There were dragons when I was a boy.

Instead of some pristine prince charming, she'd much rather have her big, bad wolf.

To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination

By replacing history with fantasy, the Palestinians have invented a society unlike any other, where hatred trumps bread. They have reared children unlike any other children, removed from ordinary norms and behaviors.

We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy

And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything as you like it, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose, and it's always daisy-time.

What's the use of thinking about something which never could happen? It only makes you discontented with what you've got.

I really suggest the Pendragon series to all readers unless you are afraid of gore!

the cat-people of Eelong

I've always been a gamer. I play a version of Dungeons & Dragons.

People try not to think about what's going on in sub-Saharan Africa. They edit it out of their daily lives. Especially Americans. We prefer a fantasy version of Africa.

I had seen 'Hook' growing up - it was one of my favorite films - and I had seen the version of 'Peter Pan' that Jason Issacs was in, and I had seen the older versions, obviously the Disney version.

I often look at places and kind of mentally convert them to fantasy versions of themselves.

I prefer to write about what we refer to as 'the supernatural' versus everyday life. Humans, by themselves, bore me.