Quotes About Fantasy

I like 'The Lord of The Rings' and ninja swords.

I hate dream sequences in movies and T.V. shows generally for their heavy-handed symbolism and storytelling tediousness.

The sustaining fantasy of Nolan's Batman films - which does chime uncomfortably with Romney -is that the excesses of finance capital can be curbed by a combination of philanthropy, off-the-books violence and symbolism.

This... is a synthetic world many of us live in today - a dream, if you will.

When someone doesn't show up, the people who wait sometimes tell stories about what might have happened and come to half believe the desertion, the abduction, the accident. Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don't--and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we prefer ugly scenarios to the pure unknown. Perhaps fantasy is what you fill up maps with rather than saying that they too contain the unknown.

Tushy McBottomchu, or

Do you know, I always imagine that the subway trains are dragons,' Rose said to Bear as they clung to his coat for support in the swaying car. 'Tearing back and forth across the city in their underground caves, devouring people and spitting them out at random destinations.

I was on the far side of the dream.

Ik heb een hekel aan fantastische vertellingen. Sprookjes, dromen, saai-jans-fiction, de hele boel kan me gestolen worden.' 'Waarom, meisje?' 'Het gewone dagelijkse leven is al fantastisch genoeg.' 'Kind, kind,' de juffrouw hief de handen geschrokken ten plafond, 'waar haal je die onzin vandaan! Straks ga je nog zeggen dat de werkelijkheid fantastischer is dan een roman.

This is a place of true imagination.

I recall an epic peregrination of some phantasmagorical nature that lay ahead

he does not admit this, but no man is so poor that he cannot afford a what if...

Imagination is the true magic carpet." Norman Vincent Peale (1898–1993) WRITER

Hi Haley. look, I found all these free swords. They were in my spleen.

Perhaps you should have been a dragon yourself!" she shouted back. "If you could see the world as I see it!

Nothing is as real as dreams.

For those unhappy with modern society, folk music suggested the colors, scents, and textures of a more authentic time. The folk scene offered a purer cultural identity, or at least the fantasy of one.

Maybe the fact that nobody believes in magic and wood sprites and happiness is the problem of the day. [Ludi]

In nature, a child finds freedom, fantasy, and privacy: a place distant from the adult world, a separate peace.

They won't accept reasonable things with their minds but the fantastic things they'll swallow whole when their emotions are brought into play. Because the emotions have no limits on belief. The emotions will swallow anything—and they do.

All around them spreads a phantasmagoric, Ordovician fairy tale.

So, what are you saying? That this was all some kind of vicarious fantasy? The road not taken? In a way. I was . . . I was trying . . . Oh, shit. Her hand rose and her eyes widened. You were composing. In DNA? It did sound ludicrous. But what was music, ever, except pure play?

I sleep. I dream. I make up things that I would never say. I say them very quietly.

Can we just call them storm spirits?" Leo asked. "Venti makes them sound like evil espresso drinks.