Fantasy Quotes - Page 11

• It's as if Japanese men, all to aware that deep inside they'd like to stomp Tokyo flat, breathe fire, and do truly terrible and disgusting things to women, have built themselves the most beautiful of prisons for their rampaging ids. Instead of indulging their fantasies, they focus on food, or landscaping, or the perfect cup of tea -- or a single slab of o-toro tuna -- letting themselves go only at baseball games and office parties.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Beautiful, Baseball, Party

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• With the Black Company series Glen Cook single-handedly changed the face of fantasy—something a lot of people didn’t notice and maybe still don’t. He brought the story down to a human level, dispensing with the cliché archetypes of princes, kings, and evil sorcerers. Reading his stuff was like reading Vietnam War fiction on peyote.

  Steven Erikson

  Kings, War, Reading

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• He has let her in not because he genuinely loved her, but only because she played so well into his preconceived fantasies.

  Shulamith Firestone

  Wells

  Shulamith Firestone (1970). “The dialectic of sex: the case for feminist revolution”

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• In an era of stress and anxiety, when the present seems unstable and the future unlikely, the natural response is to retreat and withdraw from reality, taking recourse either in fantasies of the future or in modified visions of a half-imagined past.

  Alan Moore

  Stress, Past, Reality

  "Watchmen". Comic book series by Alan Moore, 1986 - 1987.

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• Unless we are willing to escape into sentimentality or fantasy, often the best we can do with catastrophes, even our own, is to find out exactly what happened and restore some of the missing parts.

  Norman Maclean

  Missing, Willing, Catastrophe

  Norman Maclean (2010). “Young Men and Fire”, p.46, University of Chicago Press

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• Take it, and turn to facts my fantasies.

  Edmond Rostand

  Facts, Turns

  Edmond Rostand (1951). “Cyrano de Bergerac: a new version in English verse”

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• The warrior of light knows the importance of intuition. In the midst of battle, he does not have time to think of the enemy's blows, and so he uses his instinct and obeys his angel. in times of peace, he deciphers the signs that God sends him. People say, "He's mad." Or, "He lives in a fantasy world." Or even, "How can he possibly believe in such illogical things?" But the warrior knows that intuition is God's alphabet and he continues listening to the wind and talking to the stars.

  Paulo Coelho

  Stars, Believe, Angel

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• 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.

  Gena Showalter

  Mind, Wipe, Prove

  Gena Showalter (2010). “The Darkest Pleasure”, p.232, HQN Books

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• Dr. Seuss provided "ingenious and uniquely witty solutions to the standing problem of the juvenile fantasy writer: how to find, not another Alice, but another rabbit hole.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Witty, Rabbits, Drs

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• I always needed that extra fantasy world. I had to have another world I could be in at the same time.

  Stephenie Meyer

  World, Needed, Extras

  Stephenie Meyer (2011). “The Twilight Saga: The Official Illustrated Guide”, p.13, Hachette UK

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• Fancies are like shadows...you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Dancing, Shadow, Fancy

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2013). “The Anne of Green Gables Chronicles (Annotated Edition)”, p.350, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy.

  Charles Darwin

  Running, May, Evolution

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.36, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• It is to be all made of fantasy, All made of passion and all made of wishes, All adoration, duty, and observance, All humbleness, all patience and impatience, All purity, all trial, all observance

  William Shakespeare

  Passion, Wish, Trials

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 5, sc. 2, l. [90]

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• If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses

  Anais Nin

  Love You, Mean, Madness

  Anaïs Nin, “The Diary Of Anaïs Nin, Volume 1: 1931-1934”

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• I have ten bucks in my pocket - what to spend it on? French fries - ten dollars' worth of french fries, ultimate fantasy.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Pockets, Dollars, Bucks

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.144, Macmillan

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• Now every mortal has pain and sweat is constant, but if there is anything dearer than being alive, it's dark to me. We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth-- we call it life. We know no other. The underworld's a blank and all the rest just fantasy.

  Anne Carson

  Pain, Dark, Sweat

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• I’m really not hungry,” she repeated, lifting the coffee cup and inhaling the fragrant steam before sipping. “Just a few bites,” he cajoled, taking his own place beside her. “You need to keep up your strength for tonight.” She gave him a heated, slumberous look, remembering her fantasy. “Why? Are you planning something special?” “I suppose I am,” he said consideringly. “It’s special every time we make love.

  Linda Howard

  Coffee, Making Love, Special

  Linda Howard (2016). “Loving Evangeline”, p.133, HQN Books

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• Miss Hayes, have you stopped to consider that you might have this all backward? That in fact you are my fantasy?

  Shannon Hale

  Missing, Might, Facts

  Shannon Hale (2007). “Austenland: A Novel”, Bloomsbury USA

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• We see what we want to see. We idealize each other with our own fantasies.

  Eric Jerome Dickey

  Want

  Eric Jerome Dickey (2006). “Genevieve”, p.38, Penguin

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• When you have indulged a lust, your wing drops off; you become lame, abandoned by a fantasy. …People fancy they are enjoying themselves, but they are really tearing out their wings for the sake of an illusion.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Wings, People

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.20, Shambhala Publications

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• I should have known you'd side with them. It's some sort of of male bonding thing to think women aren't capable of running their own lives." He nuzzled the top of her head with his chin. "It's ego and sheer desperation. We have to keep you thinking we're the superior species." "News flash, Jack - no women on the face of earth believes that anymore." He trailed kisses down her cheek. "But men don't know women know that. We still live in our fantasy world, so don't muck it up for us.

  Christine Feehan

  Running, Believe, Kissing

  Christine Feehan (2006). “Conspiracy Game”, p.96, Penguin

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• Sometimes I think that if I had to choose between an ear of corn or making love to a woman, I'd choose the corn. Not that I wouldn't love to have a final roll in the hay - I am a man yet, and something never die - but the thought of those sweet kernels bursting between my teeth sure sets my mouth to watering. It's fantasy, I know that. Neither will happen. I just like to weight the options, as though I were standing in front of Solomon: a final roll in the hay or an ear of corn. What a wonderful dilemma. Sometimes I substitute an apple for the corn.

  Sara Gruen

  Sweet, Men, Thinking

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• The problem with most genre fantasy is that it's not nearly fantastic enough. It's escapist, but it can't escape.

  China Mieville

  Problem, Enough, Fantastic

  "Fantasy and revolution". Interview with John Newsinger, www.marxists.org. Autumn, 2000.

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• The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda. Perceiving the truth has always been a challenge to mankind, but in the information age (or as I think of it, the disinformation age) it takes on a special urgency and importance.

  Michael Crichton

  Reality, Thinking, Challenges

  Remarks to the Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, www.cs.cmu.edu. September 15, 2003.

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• A hundred years from now, people will look back on us and laugh. They'll say, 'You know what people used to believe? They believed in photons and electrons. Can you imagine anything so silly?' They'll have a good laugh, because by then there will be newer better fantasies... And meanwhile, you feel the way the boat moves? That's the sea. That's real. You smell the salt in the air? You feel the sunlight on your skin? That's all real. Life is wonderful. It's a gift to be alive, to see the sun and breathe the air. And there isn't really anything else.

  Michael Crichton

  Real, Silly, Moving

  Michael Crichton (1997). “The Lost World”, Knopf

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