Fantasy Quotes · Page 56

I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains.

— Italo Calvino

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

— Albert Einstein

“Katenia, are you drunk?" "No, it's my breasts. I've yet to adjust to my new size.”

— Eden Ashe

“We are the Bloodsworn, closer than kin. A brotherhood, a sisterhood: we live and die together.”

— John Gwynne

I got into acting to avoid politics of any sort so I could remain in a fantasy world.

— Mary Lynn Rajskub

“They were rebellious through their artistic expression and their uplifting spirits”

— Evan Meekins

Sometimes we choose a friend who mirrors our fantasies, dreams of a self we wish we could be.

— Lillian B. Rubin

“You are always sending us to our deaths. We’re soldiers, it is what we do.”

— B.E.L. Forsythe

“His eyes were closing again, all of their own accord, so that he lay in red, pain-filled darkness. It occured to him…

— Herbie Brennan

Philosophy can help laymen spot and reject the numerous pseudoscientific beliefs that survive in the media, such as the fantasies of psychoanalysts,…

— Mario Bunge

“Her husband's visage captivated her from the first moment she saw him step out of the royal carriage a hundred years ago.…

— Therisa Peimer

When I started really writing fantasy, one of the things I noticed was a real absence of sexuality in the genre at…

— Jacqueline Carey

People have this fantasy that it's all just an easy ride if you know someone important. Well, it's not. I've known lots…

— Sondra Locke

I think we’re [men and women] more similar. In that we all deal with our fantasy lives and sometimes are disappointed by…

— Erica Jong

“Reading always calmed me down: filling my head with other - made up - people's problems and conflicts made my own seem…

— Heather James

“Yes, Remy, I think I do mind,” Daniel hissed. He didn’t sound like himself. He sounded evil, feral-like. An instant chill fell…

— Hope Worthington

“As a fallen noble, he could only imagine the embarrassment she must have endured, when his family disowned her. To lose the…

— Kristina Stangl

. . .from their earliest years children live on familiar terms with disrupting emotions, fear and anxiety are an intrinsic part of…

— Maurice Sendak

“Have you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does light? This sorcery is not a game we play for…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“For me the real evil of masturbation would be that it takes an appetite which, in lawful use, leads the individual out…

— C.S. Lewis

As you see, I do not treat the creation of fiction, that to say the invention and development of fantasies,as a form…

— J. M. Coetzee

Fantasy is a literature particularly useful for embodying and examining the real difference between good and evil. In an America where our…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

At some point, every science fiction and fantasy story must challenge the reader's experience and learning. That's much of the reason why…

— Orson Scott Card

Soft fantasy worlds have a much looser cause-and-effect relationship. Alchemists can turn lead into gold and nobody wonders about how it will…

— Patrick Rothfuss

“It’s all short, sweet and simple, but it’s all a moment’s worth.”

— Lauren Lola

Romance novels satisfy a very specific fantasy of romantic love that seems to be a powerful part of the female psyche.

— Melissa Pritchard

“Violence always leads to pain" Trendal Malian- Ishtaria: Prince of Blades”

— Keith Collier

“He peered down at me. “Jesus Christ. You’re leaking.” If by “leaking” he meant “sobbing like a girl,” I guess so.”

— Lili St. Crow

I was the original Cinderella girl, looking for the happy ending in the fairy story. But my fantasy prince never came.

— Evelyn Keyes

Everything burns if the flame is hot enough. The world is nothing but a crucible.

— Andrew Davidson

“Your pretense does not fool me, gnome. My eye will be upon you.”

— Cassandra Clare

“Don’t do it for the sake of doing it, but don’t wait for a fantasy, either.”

— Rachel Cohn

“There was a feeling on the air like the eve of the end of the world...”

— Billie-Jo Williams

“Faith is not just thinking you can do things, but believing god can handle all things!”

— Philip Cook

“An uncomfortable marriage can not bear the strain of the death of a beloved donkey.”

— Merrie Haskell

“Let me tell you: the only way to get rid of dragons is to have one of your own.”

— Evgeny Shvarts

I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It's best not to ask questions and just enjoy.

— Lady Gaga

I believe that I have now experienced the lifetime maximum exposure to bottom spanking in fantasy novels.

— James Nicoll

“The trees, in both Earth and Heaven, exist in the same form.”

— Rebecca Harlem

One fantasy is that I just do a Don Roos movie every year if that's possible. If he'd have me

— Lisa Kudrow