Now that I've relinquished my fantasies of all the people I wish I could be, and stopped feeling guilty about [them], I… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
I didn't have a lot of exposure to films as a kid, and I never went to the cinema. I had a… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
Just because I'm a successful singer who's loved and has been loved for years doesn't mean I'm sitting behind electric gates in… — Ian Brown Copy Share Image
I have been doodling with ink and watercolor on paper all my life. It's my way of stirring up my imagination to… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
Have you ever had one of those weekends where all you do is have sex? Last night I was so sick of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I loved the world of Oz. I guess as a young man, I was just drawn to fantasy worlds. I liked being… — James Franco Copy Share Image
Fantasy plunders the well of our deepest selves for existent truth instead of creating new truths out of the illusory fabric of… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
People frequently believe the creative life is grounded in fantasy. The more difficult truth is that creativity is grounded in reality, in… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
“There was balance, harsh and violent like the noxious air in a swamp. But balance, nonetheless. Then somewhere in the fickle mists… — T.P. Grish Copy Share Image
“Hence the uneasiness which they arouse in those who, for whatever reason, wish to keep us wholly imprisoned in the immediate conflict.… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The man raised the violin under his chin, placed the bow across the strings, and closed his eyes. For a moment his… — Chris Lester Copy Share Image
I have a lot of palm trees, because they say to me holidays and ocean. I grew up very poor and I… — Udo Kier Copy Share Image
When you're 11 or 12 years old, you can get so swept up in a book that you start to believe that… — Wes Anderson Copy Share Image
Now every mortal has pain and sweat is constant, but if there is anything dearer than being alive, it's dark to me.… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
“She strode forward, steeling her tune against the terrible cries which threatened to tear her emotions from her and leave her half-conscious.… — Steven Raaymakers Copy Share Image
“The inexperienced reader wants the essentially familiar combined with superficial novelty. Each story must have a slightly new setting or twist or… — Laurence Perrine Copy Share Image
The truth can be hard to swallow, but it's always best to embrace it, no matter how hard you want to keep… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In Republican fantasy world, everything is always Obama's fault. Somehow, he's weak and he's ineffective, and yet he pulls the strings on… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Fantasy is like jam. . . . You have to spread it on a solid piece of bread. If not, it remains… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“A lot of the names in Talon reference other people or events. For example Amelia, the giant Eagle, was a “tip of… — Christopher Gerard Copy Share Image
When I write I simply follow my heart. And my flights of fantasy. It is not done with a conscious effort. I'm… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In this he saw that Ogion had been right: the shadow could not draw on his power, so long as he was… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“I dug through my purse for the Glock. There is was, and I realized I'd never set the safety. I decided to… — Gini Koch Copy Share Image
“Children seem to need, then, a delicate balance between the realistic and the fantastic in their art; enough of the realistic to… — Eric S. Rabkin Copy Share Image
It is television's primary damage that it provides ten million children with the same fantasy, ready-made and on a platter. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
The point of fashion is that you take the picture you want. And fashion is the only photography that allows fantasy, and… — Tim Walker Copy Share Image
If the arts are held up solely as a means of social insight, fantasy is denied the chance to be commonplace and… — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
I want to be involved with young people in some way. Teenagers. Because that's the most vulnerable time. I have a fantasy… — Elisabeth Shue Copy Share Image
“Someone once said, that the internet is the bathroom wall of the 21 century. And that appears to be true, especially since… — Delia J. Colvin Copy Share Image
I don't have this fantasy about marriage anymore. Everyone says it takes hard work. Well, it kind of does - and I'm… — Jennifer Garner Copy Share Image
I was heavily influenced by my first attempt at a novel. I started a fantasy novel back in high school, and... well...… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Even in my revenge fantasy where all I do is exercise, I can still do only twenty-five pull-ups. Pull-ups are tough, no… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
“I started picturing Rens smiling face, the warmth of his touch, the slight curl of his lip before he kissed me. Every… — S.G. Holster Copy Share Image
I'm always astonished by a forest. It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy.… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
There’s a strange quality in stop-motion photography, like in King Kong, that adds to the fantasy. If you make things too real,… — Ray Harryhausen Copy Share Image
People's fantasies are what give them problems. If you didn't have fantasies you wouldn't have problems because you'd just take whatever was… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
“I have also fantasised myself to be his female slave, but this does not suffice, for after all every woman can be… — Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing Copy Share Image
“You can only fight one man at a time with a sword, but, with a pen, you can compose a lecture to… — Lindsay Buroker Copy Share Image
Hollywood provides ready-made fantasies or daydreams; the problem is whether these are productive or nonproductive, whether the audience is psychologically enriched or… — Hortense Powdermaker Copy Share Image
Journalism, like history, has no therapeutic value; it is better able to diagnose than to cure, and it provides society with a… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image