Quotes About Fantasy

Michael Young, the English sociologist who coined the term "meritocracy," despised the fashion for it: first, because it is largely a smug fantasy perpetuated by those who sit at the top of the social pyramid; and second, because it bestows on those at the bottom the slur that they are there because they have no merit. Even feudalism spared the poor that insult: their lowly station was an accident of birth.

He prays at the altar of dead false gods. Tries to hold up an image of what he thinks used to be but in fact didn't exist except maybe in the movies. The fuckin' guy wants so bad to be something that never was, even the ghost image of which is now fading into black.

Is there a child in the world who does not believe in magic?

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

There seems to be within all of us an innate yearning to be lifted momentarily out of our own lives into the realm of charm and make believe.

Field of Dreams is probably our generation's It's A Wonderful Life.

It's all make believe, isn't it?

Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly

I always had a fantasy of being a chef, because I like kitchen life.

And if real life was like the movies, I should have lived happily ever after.

Paintings, like dreams, have a life of their own and I have always painted very much the way I dream.

The most solid pleasure in this life is the empty pleasure of illusion.

With Epcot Center, the Disney corporation has accomplished something I didn't think possible in today's world. They have created a land of make-believe that's worse than regular life.

I'm just a dreamer I dream my life away i'm just a dreamer Who dreams of better days

We need to feel that life is important; we need that fantasy so we can live a little better.

No human being can achieve all he or she desires in this life except in dreams, so good night all.

So come with me, where dreams are born, and time is never planned. Just think of happy things, and your heart will fly on wings, forever, in Never Never Land!

I think people have always loved things that are bigger than life, things that are imaginative.

Life, what is it but a dream?

I don't want to live in real life. It's too harsh, too brutal.

There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you'll be free if you truly wish to be.

I don't like dreams or reality. I like when dreams become reality because that is my life.

Bond was escapism, but not meant to be imitated in real life.

Your eyes wider than distance, this life is sweeter than fiction.