“Birthdays were wretched, delicious things when you lived in Beau Rivage. The clock stuck midnight, and presents gave way to magic. Curses… — Sarah Cross Copy Share Image
Makeup can be pure fantasy--it can transform you into any kind of magical creature, whether that's a superhero or a retro Hollywood… — Jessica Alba Copy Share Image
After reading Edgar Allan Poe. Something the critics have not noticed: a new literary world pointing to the literature of the 20th… — Jules de Goncourt Copy Share Image
It's as if Japanese men, all to aware that deep inside they'd like to stomp Tokyo flat, breathe fire, and do truly… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
That is why in adult life, people generally tend to relive rather than live, that is, to repeat the patterns of the… — Robert W. Firestone Copy Share Image
I love fantasy. I love horror. I love musicals. Whatever doesn't really happen in life is what I'm interested in. As a… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
There are only two worlds - your world, which is the real world, and other worlds, the fantasy. Worlds like this are… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The thought was, 'We're going to go to California, where the soil is black and ten feet deep, and there are no… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
Well I would say that, you know, I agree in part with that it [The Starter Wife] is fantasy and it is… — Debra Messing Copy Share Image
I always had all of these childhood fantasies about wanting to invent things, like a spaceship or a time machine. And everyone's… — Sasha Grey Copy Share Image
Contrary to a tenacious myth, France is not owned by California pension funds or the Bank of China, any more than the… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
“As if grabbed by strong arms that were not there, he felt himself being lifted. Raising skyward and spinning, he fought to… — Stephen Craig Copy Share Image
“I came to the sobering realization that I was not making it out of here alive, no matter what. I was bruised… — Rachael Wade Copy Share Image
“There is child in all of us that refuses to grow up, a child that is in awe of what can be,… — Shatrujeet Nath Copy Share Image
“Most high and happy princess, we must tell you a tale of the Man in the Moon, which if it seem ridiculous… — John Lyly Copy Share Image
It was an excess of fantasy that killed the old United States, the whole Mickey Mouse and Marilyn thing, the most brilliant… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Being afraid of building bonds because of the hurt you felt from those who betrayed your trust before, is a foolish sentiment.… — Imania Margria Copy Share Image
“So many of the conscious and unconscious ways men and women treat each other have to do with romantic and sexual fantasies… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
“It had been the most difficult part of coming to terms with what she was; knowing that she had to give up… — Katie Lynn Johnson Copy Share Image
“As McMasters raised the shotgun, the man removed his glasses. There were fields of stars where his eyes should have been. But… — James Pratt Copy Share Image
We're not going to have a backlash. We're going to build a consensus. And I live in the real world, not the… — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
Dear Mariched Manansala, who doesn't seem to care.. This poem is for you, I hope you would dare.. I always dream of… — Arvie Reforsado Copy Share Image
You can't have whatever you want. But to a child who must ask permission for every single thing, adulthood looks like a… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
I do have fantasies of buying a helicopter and a lot of machine guns, but I don't know if I can do… — Debbie Harry Copy Share Image
All I ever wanted to do was be on stage, if possible acting in Shakespeare. And to be as good as I… — Patrick Stewart Copy Share Image
Many readers simply can't stomach fantasy. They immediately picture elves with broadswords or mighty-thewed barbarians with battle axes, seeking the bejeweled Coronet… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
We've become used to processing images that are part of the non-linear narrative theory. I think there's a thinner line between fantasy… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“In a fight between a shifter and a witch, the shifter would often win—but only if they could keep the witch from… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
“A fantasy is something produced in the imagination, allowing you to indulge in a thought life that is very different from what… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Quite often, intent on conveying how things can go wrong for a culture (science fiction) or an individual (horror) or all of… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
Now, for Romney to believe that somebody's grandmother is going to be so cut off she is going to self deport... He… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
Bog-lights, vapors of mysticism, psychic overtones, soul orgies, wailings among the shadows, weird gnosticisms, veils and tissues of words, gibbering subjectivisms, gropings… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“A long time ago, there was a little girl called Mary. Now Mary, she was warned several times not to go to… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
“For those who seek allegory, it must be maddening. (It must be allegory! Of course Frodo is Christ! - or is Gollum… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
If you are going to write, say, fantasy - stop reading fantasy. You've already read too much. Read other things; read westerns,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Woman, then, stands in patriarchal culture as a signifier for the male other, bound by a symbolic order in which man can… — Laura Mulvey Copy Share Image
I've come across a novel called The Palm-Wine Drinkard, by the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, that is really remarkable because it is… — William Golding Copy Share Image
Hannah Storm in a horrifying, horrifying outfit today. She's got on red go-go boots and a catholic school plaid skirt ... way… — Tony Kornheiser Copy Share Image
“... I sit on the rug before the unlit grate and crack open the walnut. Out spills pale apricot muslin, frothing quantities… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
People who are slavish to a fantasy ideology become very lonely in the world. It's very alienating and sometimes reality is very… — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share Image