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Quotes About Fantasy

Barack's mother was very important to him, but he spent a great deal of his life living in a different place. So, as all kids do, you always have a fantasy of what perfection would be. And my guess is that Michelle's childhood was his idea of perfection. It allowed him to anchor himself with her and with her family.
~ Valerie Jarrett
I want to be rich enough that, without being cruel, I could buy a horse, a white horse, and permanently attach a horn. A pearlescent horn. And then I could just be like, 'Yeah, I have a unicorn.' But I don't know how you do that without being cruel.
~ Jacob Anderson
Most of the female characters I admire come from science fiction and fantasy, maybe because there's more permission to shake up gender roles in genre.
~ Leigh Bardugo
People talk-- they sneer at escapism. Well, there are those of us who need it.
~ Piers Anthony
Is it foolish to care for non-existent folk? Then, leave me to my foolishness.
~ Piers Anthony
Everything's either concave or -vex, so whatever you dream will be something with sex.
~ Piet Hein
All beyond this is portentous and fabulous, inhabited by poets and mythologers, and there is nothing true or certain.
~ Plutarch
Elves know friendship, if not love, and I would fain see that done which would have gladdened him.
~ Poul Anderson
Nothing comes to sleepers but dreams.
~ Prince
We used to talk about wanting to get some money, but that's when hip-hop was based on your dreams and your fantasy. The whole thing now is the dreams and fantasies were achieved, and you don't want to make it the focal point. You can't keep beating that dead horse.
~ Puff Daddy
Sex] is only a mirage, floating in shimmering mockery before the bulging eyes of middle-aged men as they stumble with little whimpers toward the double bed, that somewhere there is a person that will evoke from them sensations of which they dimly dream they are capable.
~ Quentin Crisp
Even in childhood I was mad about men in uniform.
~ Quentin Crisp
This weapon seems made to order for the Brothers Grimm downstairs.
~ Quentin Tarantino
No, I would not want to live in a world without dragons, as I would not want to live in a world without magic, for that is a world without mystery, and that is a world without faith.
~ R.A. Salvatore
I loved the world of imagination.
~ R.A. Salvatore
I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.
~ R.L. Stine
There wouldn't be so many stories about vampires and zombies and other weird creatures if they didn't really exist.
~ R.L. Stine
No nostalgia is felt as keenly as nostalgia for things that never existed.
~ Rabih Alameddine
I wondered at times whether I would wake up and this would be just a bad dream, a nightmare that I could wish away, I had the same fantasy when you were sick, Doc, that I would one day wake up and you all would be healthy and alive.
~ Rabih Alameddine
No nostalgia is felt as keenly as nostalgia for things that never existed. I
~ Rabih Alameddine
I mean, like most guys, you carry around this girl in your head, who is exactly who you want her to be. The person you think you will love the most. And every girl you are with gets measured against this girl in your head.
~ Rachel Cohn
But why should they rescue you?' he said. 'There you are, sitting in a castle in the beautiful Italian countryside, with your own room and nobody bothering you and complete freedom to do your work. For most people that is a fantasy!' 'I don't know,' Linda said dully. 'I guess it must mean there's something wrong with me.
~ Rachel Cusk
She'd never set a fantasy in a ski lodge, but she was thinking about it now. She couldn't help it. The man was throwing off pheromones like he was a nuclear reactor at Chernobyl. Sitting so close to ground zero, the fallout was lethal.
~ Rachel Gibson
She took a deep breath and forgot to exhale. She wondered what it would be like if she licked him up one side and down the other. "What are you thinking?" She suddenly felt kind of hot and dizzy and accidentally let Layla out. "That I want to lick your tattoo," she whispered.
~ Rachel Gibson