Fantasy Quotes - page 2

We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay. (Lynda Barry)
I had a friend, and we always used to pretend to be twins. We had this fantasy about going to Hollywood together. We were about four. View quote
Radha Mitchell
If I ever do anything, it actually might be some fantasy elf thing or even some cute, funny thing. Just to do something a little bit out of the ordinary. I've done my superhero gig. View quote
Todd McFarlane
It wasn't until I saw James Dean that I began to think that maybe I could actually do this. Movies didn't have to be just this fantasy with this impossibly handsome guy. View quote
Terence Stamp
That's pretty much why I went into show business because I wanted to have a guitar and sing unaccompanied, that was like my fantasy of the perfect life. View quote
Victoria Jackson
I know for a fact that this idea of the Jews causing the war and the Jews being so all important is nonsense. But that was Hitler's idea, and...was pure fantasy. As I say, Hitler is a riddle to me and will always remain so. View quote
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Painters and sculptors under the Nazis often depicted the nude, but they were forbidden to show any bodily imperfections. Their nudes look like pictures in physique magazines: pinups which are both sanctimoniously asexual and (in a technical sense) pornographic, for they have the perfection of a fantasy. View quote
Susan Sontag
I always had a fantasy of being a chef, because I like kitchen life. View quote
Geoffrey Rush
Maybe it's a sick fantasy of mine, but I am really looking forward to a debate between a general and a deserter. Plus, I really want to hear President Bush have to say, "Yes, General, No, General." View quote
Michael Moore
A human life is defined by its relationship with others: by its duty to its species. In the face of this duty, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are meaningless. What you call individual rights are merely the cultural fantasy of a failed civilization. View quote
Matthew Stover
As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy, and for some of us that world of make-believe continues into adulthood. (Jim Henson)
Much of good science - and perhaps all of great science - has its roots in fantasy. View quote
E. O. Wilson
A rustic setting always suggests fantasy; to suggest science fiction, you need sheet metal and plastic. You need rivets. View quote
Orson Scott Card
We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. View quote
Iris Murdoch
What I wanted to get at is the value difference between pornographic playing-cards when you're a kid, and pornographic playing-cards when you're older. It's that when you're a kid you use the cards as a substitute for a real experience, and when you're older you use real experience as a substitute for the fantasy. View quote
Edward Albee
And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there's no science in it. It's a kind of grim fantasy. View quote
Octavia Butler
But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical. View quote
Octavia Butler
Men characterize pornography as something mental because their minds, their thoughts, their dreams, their fantasies, are more real to them than women's bodies or lives; in fact, men have used their social power to characterize a $10-billion-a-year trade in women as fantasy. View quote
Andrea Dworkin
When you get to my age, and I'm 66 now, you realize that the world is a madhouse and that most people are operating in fantasy anyway. So once you realise that, it doesn't bother you much. View quote
John Cleese
In negotiating with rejected lovers or husbands, women must stop thinking they can make everyone happy. In many cases of harassment and stalking, it is clear that the woman never learned how to terminate the fantasy which requires resolution and decisiveness on their part. Wavering, dithering, or passive hysterical fear will only intensify or prolong pursuit. View quote
Camille Paglia
Academic Marxism is a fantasy world, and unctuous compassion-sweepstakes, into which real workers or peasants never penetrate. (Camille Paglia)
While I am sure there are a number of women who secretly wonder whether they are lesbian, most simply have, somewhere, a fantasy about having sex, in a non-defining, non-exclusive way, with other women. View quote
Nigella Lawson
I see myself as a novelist, period. I mean, the material I work with is what is classified as science fiction and fantasy, and I really don't think about these things when I'm writing. I'm just thinking about telling a story and developing my characters. View quote
Roger Zelazny
Memory, prophecy and fantasy the past, the future and the dreaming moment between are all one country, living one immortal day. To know that is Wisdom. To use it is the Art. View quote
Clive Barker
Advertising reaches out to touch the fantasy part of people's lives. And you know, most people's fantasies are pretty sad. View quote
Frederik Pohl