Fantasy Quotations | Page 5

I'm very happy to be back in touch with a part of myself. It's surreal. For 35 years, I never thought I'd be reunited with the music I wrote during the Creedence Clearwater Revival years. After meeting with Norman Lear, Hal Gaba, and Glen Barros (President of Concord), I'm happy to say that the new Fantasy is very enthusiastic about my body of work. All the people there have been delightful. They are honoring my songs that hold an important place in the history of American music. And, they are honoring me.

I had a fantasy of being a pro baseball player, and I've gotten to play a Major League Baseball player (in 1992's 'Mr. Baseball'). I loved Westerns as a little kid and I get to do them. I even get to die as an actor and then you just go home and have dinner. It's great. So now, I'm not a candidate, but I play one on TV and I'll be home for dinner.

If you can keep those concepts of play and competition, the behaviors are somewhat addictive. You can be addicted to fantasy sports just like you can be addicted to on-line betting - and I think there are probably several people out there who are like that.

If you look at fantasy for most people, they could go to Nepal. They could do it. But for most people, it will remain a fantasy.

If you compare the violence in 'Happy Valley' to the violence in something like 'Game of Thrones,' it's nothing. But it is shocking because it's so real and grounded. The characters could live next door to you - they're not in a remote fantasy world.

In the electronic game world, I know I have a reputation for doing the cyberpunk thing, and for doing the serious epic fantasy thing, but if you go back to when I was a kid, I've been a Disney fan all my life.

I like to do that, too, so I enjoy both science fiction and fantasy - but I always keep in mind which one I'm doing, and they are not the same.

I have put together as many as nine teams (of senior athletes). I had three teams here last year. I'm playing out my fantasy from high school.

Investing in our content, our customer experience and the success of our advertisers are our top priorities and further evidence of our long term strategy. What's extremely encouraging is that despite our free offering, our subscription revenue for this fantasy baseball season continues to show healthy growth. That is certainly a strong testament to the strength of our fantasy brand in the marketplace.

I really can't write fantasy. I cannot invent a world which does not exist. And I can't read fantasy either. As soon as I realise I'm reading a book that hasn't got its roots in a reality I can comprehend, I switch off.

I guess one of the most magnificent things a novel can do is to change your perspective on the world, and to give it some sense of wonder, and that's what I find so exciting in writing fantasy, especially fantasy for children. Because already, I think children have a very special and unusual way of seeing the world.

Claridge's is elegant but determinedly unglamorous. The only fantasy it has to offer is the illusion that the world is in good working order.

Being a fan and watching sports is sometimes characterized as a passive and individualized thing, but in fact it's a lot more social than that. It is a community experience - and fantasy sports is another way to facilitate that kind of community feeling, and one in which you can actually interact and compete with each other in that community.

(Children) still cannot tell the difference between fantasy and reality until about 8. That is why they believe in Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy and monsters under the bed.

Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy we call mathematics.

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

She’d already decided to be with him. If only to wipe him from her mind, get him out of her system and stop the fantasies plaguing her. If only to prove to herself that being with him would not be pleasurable for her.

Advertising reaches out to touch the fantasy part of people's lives. And you know, most people's fantasies are pretty sad.

We all deal with our fantasy lives and sometimes are disappointed by reality.

Fantasy is no good unless the seed it springs from is a truth, a truth about human beings.

For me, part of the fascination with making animation is you go to a place; it's a complete immersion in someone else's fantasy.

They can keep their heaven. When I die, I’d sooner go to Middle Earth.

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies..

Looking at it, I started crying. Maybe it was knowing that I had to give up the fantasy, the enormous life consuming fantasy , that someone or something was going to do this for me – the fantasy that someone was coming to lead my life, to choose direction, to give me orgasms.

If your sexual fantasies were truly of interest to others, they would no longer be fantasies.

Abandon the search for Truth; settle for a good fantasy

I think the more stressful our times get, the more we look for fantasy escapes.

I like to maintain a certain sense of fantasy in my life.

I was a big sci-fi fantasy geek when I was younger... secretly, in my room.

As a kid, I loved any fantasy.

The great thing about Jane Austen - the reason we're all still obsessed with her - is that she gets inside a woman's mind and she taps into our fantasies of wanting to be accepted and loved for who we are.

I try to stay focused on my life and do try not to be brought into the Hollywood fantasy.

I wonder what Proust would have made of our present-day locus of collective fantasy, the Internet. I’m guessing he would have seized on its wistful aspect, pointing out gently and with wry humor that much of what beguiles us is the act of reaching for what isn’t there.

I have a lot of fantasy.

Learning is the gradual replacement of fantasy with fact.

Whatever your sex fantasy is with your partner, consider it normal.

All you ever were was a little bit of the universe, thinking to itself. Very specific; this bit, here, right now. All the rest was fantasy.

Do the impossible, because almost everyone has told me my ideas are merely fantasies.

This is a fantasy fiddle tune. The part you fantasize is the fiddle.

The more we see the more we must be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

I'm a very boring person in my real life so I got to act out misbehaving fantasies was really fun.

Fantasy (in this sense) is, I think, not a lower but a higher form of Art, indeed the most nearly pure form, and so (when achieved) the most potent.

Fantasy remains a human right: we make in our measure and in our derivative mode, because we are made: and not only made, but made in the image and likeness of a Maker.

The dream of reason produces monsters

I don't think any book of mine will ever come as close to pure fantasy as 'A Heaven of Others.' I'll never again set a book in a world or after-world in which it's impossible to buy a cup of coffee or take an undisturbed afternoon nap.

I appreciate both... for me, I think 'Star Wars' is more science fantasy and is based on a lot of great legendary heroes and morality plays and stuff. And 'Star Trek' is just pure fun. Pure science fun. And I've always appreciated both.

I don't want to live in a fantasy world.

I don't write hard SF - that is, technology-driven science fiction. I don't read this stuff, either. I like to read, and to write, SF about people, the consequences of technological and social change on individuals or groups of individuals. Fantasy and hard SF aren't about these things.

What a thing of fantasy a woman may become after dusk.

To me, the explanation of life seems to be its melody, its pattern. And I feel in life such an infinite, truly inconceivable fantasy.

But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.

We are all the judges and the judged, victims of the casual malice and fantasy of others, and ready sources of fantasy and malice in our turn. And if we are sometimes accused of sins of which we are innocent, are there not also other sins of which we are guilty and of which the world knows nothing?

That's a huge fear for middle-class women. It's not so much a fear for poor women, because poor women have always assumed that they are going to have to support themselves. It's middle-class women who have this fantasy that somebody else is going to support them.

We're living in such a fantasy world where nothing makes sense anymore.

It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things to learn.

New rule: every fantasy author who doesn't treat horses like tireless hairy motorcycles automatically gets a Hugo.

Fantasy football is not only a good thing, but a great thing.

The psyche is highly flammable material. So we are always wrapping things in asbestos, keeping our images and fantasies at arm's length because they are so full of love

We all have this fantasy of finding our one true love who's going to be the perfect fit. It's just not a reality.

I really love fantasy. I have to say it is my favourite genre to read and one of the genres I love the most to write.

The more that you travel the more you get the sense of the word as a larger place and the more you get a sense of the variety of history and mythology. And when you know about these things you can incorporate them into what I feel is a more rich and more large tapestry of fantasy.

Why do I find the fantasy - husband, family, kids - exhausting instead of alluring? Is there something wrong with me? Do I have a life?

Dogs are fantasies that don't disappoint.

I have such a rich fantasy life, I can't help it. I do make up a lot of romantic stories in my head.

A problem with my novels is that they, from the start, have been infantile and incredibly childish. There are childishness, stupidity, lack of wisdom, fantasies. At the same time, that's where my creativity can be found. If I tried to control it and make it more mature, it wouldn't be good at all. It'd be uninteresting, without any vivacity.

They always pencil in my boobs. I was only angry when they were really droopy... For King Arthur, for a poster, they gave me these really strange droopy tits. I thought, well if you're going to make me fantasy breasts, at least make perky breasts.

Any idiot, any stockbroker can get out there and live out a fantasy and pretend like he's playing music. And I don't think there's anything wrong with that.

Having a fantasy come true doesn't always mean it will be permanent.

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

Sexual activity, and the thoughts and fantasies of sex, use up a great portion of our vital force. When that force is conserved through abstinence, it becomes sublimated as spiritual energy.

Fantasy is one of the soul's brighter porcelains.

A fantasy can be equivalent to a paradise and if the fantasy passes, better yet, because eternal paradise would be very boring.

I've always had a fantasy to write a cookbook, because everyone wants to know what a model eats.

I feel that's one of the central questions of fantasy. What did we lose when we entered the 20th and 21st century, and how can we mourn what we lost, and what can we replace it with? We're still asking those questions in an urgent way.

The line between outside and inside is fuzzier in fantasy. Maybe that's something people are looking for.

I'm a fantasy writer. I don't do SF. This is important to me. If you're not clear on what genre you're in, everything gets muddled, and it's hard to know which rules you're breaking.

Theories are just fantasies. And they change.

We need to get environmentalism out of the sphere of religion. We need to stop the mythic fantasies, and we need to stop the doomsday predictions. We need to start doing hard science instead.

Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies.

Which is the supplement? Fantasy or daily routine?

But when reality was hopeless, fantasy became more and more necessary.

I have a collection of mid-century, small-press science fiction and fantasy hardcovers that is my most focused and dedicated collection. Everything else I tend more to acquire or amass than collect. I have vinyl records I listen to all the time when I work. But I don't collect records. I just buy records where the price seems right and it's music I actually listen to.

Once confined to fantasy and science fiction, time travel is now simply an engineering problem.

Fantasy and science fiction are where my brain lives.

I do like fantasy films.

She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don't apply to you.

If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.

Most modern fantasy just rearranges the furniture in Tolkien's attic.

Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.

Most of my short stories are fantasy.

I am not a science fiction writer. I am a fantasy writer. But the label got put on me and stuck.

Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.

I'm not a science-fiction writer. I've only written one book that's science fiction, and that's Fahrenheit 451. All the others are fantasy.

I have so much respect for John [Galliano]s technical skill and the fantasy, its just something that I dont find relevant now, especially when it restricts a woman, because in every other area they have so much freedom.

The dreams get anchored in aged wisdom not some utopian fantasy.

I'm a total nerd. I love fantasy.

The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.

Fantasy is hard to do when it comes to making it look good compared to something that's a documentary or hyper-realism.

... everything written is at least in part fantasy. Except maybe the national budget. That's horror.

We live in a bubble of the fantasy of death, but the reality of it is something that we obviously all face and have to deal with, at some point.