Fantasy Quotes · Page 62

Me, I was already jaded and tarnished, skeptical that a fantasy world could keep reality at bay.

— Jodi Picoult

I've always thought of fantasy as a genre of best-case scenarios, and horror as a genre of worst-case scenarios.

— Brian K. Vaughan

People often ask me if fantasy is about escapism, and I personally don't think it is.

— Lauren Schmidt Hissrich

I enjoy acting when you really hit it right. And I guess I've always had too much fantasy to be only a…

— Marilyn Monroe

That's the whole thing about fashion: it's fantasy. To dip into that at 18 and 19 was amazing.

— Sophie Dahl

“Life should be so Laurel that we need not Live in Fantasy.”

— Abhayraj Nanjunde

“Fantasy - the ability to envisage the world in many different ways - is one of the skills that makes us human.”

— Terry Pratchett

“Gossip is like thread wound over a spindle of truth, changing its shape.”

— K. Ritz

“Dragonsbane, they called him. Slayer of dragons. Or a dragon, anyway. And, he'd later found out, not such a very big one…

— Barbara Hambly

I usually do one con a year as a GoH and try to make the World Fantasy Convention for business purposes. Last…

— Alan Dean Foster

“They poured out the lower doors and windows of the castle, howling to the skies. They evolved into a kind of cohesive…

— Gail Carriger

I have all these weird fantasies. Going coast-to-coast on my motorcycle and having random barbecues all over America. No show, no nothing.

— Dave Chappelle

I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the…

— Laini Taylor

Sociology and anthropology are not disciplines which take easily to situations where people are able to live out their fantasies, not just…

— Jonathan Raban

“Could be I've finally gone crazy, but men crazier than me have done greater things than I've ever dreamed, so we'll see…

— Drew Bankston

There is a part of me that has to depend on fantasy, because if you can't be somewhat of a fantasy person,…

— Stevie Nicks

I was actually home-schooled, so I never had the opportunity of going to prom. No-one invited me, I didn't have a good…

— Vanessa Hudgens

“Fairy tales, fantasy, legend and myth...these stories, and their topics, and the symbolism and interpretation of those topics...these things have always held…

— Helen Pilinovsky

“You want fantasy? Here's one... There's this species that lives on a planet a few miles above molten rock and a few…

— Terry Pratchett

“The hope that fuels the pursuit of endless economic growth – that billions of consumers in India & China will one day…

— Pankaj Mishra

“A twinge of fear entered Gwenwhyfar’s heart. It was the first she had heard of the sea farms lying in the path…

— Jennifer McKeithen

“Ranerio wrapped his hand around mine, guiding my fingers like Lucius had done when he'd shown me the latch behind the dressing-room…

— Beth Fantaskey

One may disavow and disclaim vices that surprise us, and whereto our passions transport us; but those which by long habits are…

— Michel de Montaigne

She's the only woman I've ever had a sexual fantasy about. With me, looks come first, and she's everything a woman should…

— Rod Stewart

ELANTRIS is a new BEN HUR for the fantasy genre, with a sweeping, epic storyline and closely personal characters.

— Kevin J. Anderson

“If I were to lock you up in a dungeon, I guarantee you would not be bored.”

— Priya Ardis

My passion for you intensely consumes me, what started as a delicate situation has turned into an endless fantasy.

— Anonymous

I have fantasies of burning down an insurance company just so THEY have to make a claim.

— Alonzo Bodden

“He’s jealous because lions are better hunters.”--Monroe “Are you compensating for something, Monroe?” --Bastian”

— Bethany Averie

“[Religion is] a fantasy [and is] completely empty of any explanatory content. It is also evil.”

— P.W. Atkins

“He threw the knife at Karian’s face, deliberately catching his temple. “Sons of Kings shouldn’t play with sharp toys.”

— Tracey-anne McCartney

I sort of had that fantasy of being one of the muses of Paris and hanging out with Toulouse Lautrec and Picasso.

— Bebe Buell

“Your brain is a forest, And the nerves are trees. When the branches touch, Snaps jumps between the leaves.”

— Rich Shapero

“Magie ist das, was wir tief in uns spüren, wenn wir lächeln”

— Christoph Marzi

“Reading books is like your own emotional and wishful life that you could see yourself living.”

— Sarah Johnson

“Wisdom’s Pearl doth often dwell Closed in Fancy’s rainbow shell”

— John Sterling

I am determined and ready to be a commodity that fulfills everyone's fantasies.

— Sasha Grey

“The best way to ruin a fantasy is to meet the reality, right?”

— Meghan March

Acting job can create a fantasy or stereotype for others. That's why we try not to show our personal lives so much.

— Gong Yoo

Value what you already own, more than your fantasies and thoughts.

— Ruben Papian