Na Fantasy Quotes

Outside the street's on fire in a real death waltz between what's flesh and what's fantasy.

I've been in love with the cinema since childhood and it's a fantasy of mine to appear in a Hollywood movie.

Our life stories are at one and the same time reality, fallacy and fantasy.

I just like that balance of the real and the fantastical because as a reader and consumer of stories and fantasy, I always want to feel like I can find that world.

The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.

Academic Marxism is a fantasy world, and unctuous compassion-sweepstakes, into which real workers or peasants never penetrate.

Without playing with fantasy, no creative work has yet come into being.

I could see myself in some sort of pioneer bonnet, it's my childhood fantasy. But, I think I look too jewish for the prairie.

Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy. And in the final tolling it often turns out that the facts are more comforting than the fantasy.

Fashion is magical, a fantasy. It's madness, and it doesn't last. It's changing all the time.

I need no fantasies to belittle the great treasures that I already possess.

The worst thing about the fantasies of the mentally ill is that they're so damned consistent. They never let up. They never give you any rest.

Science Fiction has rivets, fantasy has trees.

The difference between science fiction and fantasy … is simply this: science fiction has rivets and fantasy has trees.

A rustic setting always suggests fantasy; to suggest science fiction, you need sheet metal and plastic. You need rivets.

Science fiction is about what could be but isn't; fantasy is about what couldn't be.

I haven't ever seen a period drama that has a fantasy element to it, that's set in London, that's as lavish as it is, and that's made for American TV.

It's interesting, the sense of pastoral utopia that exists in so much fantasy - in [Edward ] Dunsany, [John R.R.] Tolkien and so on.

When I was growing up, there were so many musicals you could watch. I like the fantasy of musicals and I love music.

A lot of people have it - that fantasy of being lord or lady of the manor, either in the present or at some time in history.

My love affairs were more often about the fantasy than the actual person I was involved with.

I would write light entertainment nonfiction pieces during the day, then come home and work on my fantasy fiction. It was very difficult to get out of the one mindset and into another one.

My fantasy is that there is a new regulatory body that is in charge of algorithmic auditing.

It's really hard to separate fantasy from reality.

Fantasy allows for less rigorous worldbuilding and more vigorous exploration of moral questions. Sci-fi is opp.

I get excited when fantasy football season's coming. This guy gets excited when war season's coming.

I was always an actress, even as a little kid, and fantasy, horror, sci-fi stories are really all about playing make believe. I just never grew out of that.

The Magician's Land is a triumphant climax to the best fantasy trilogy of the decade.

When I do get to chow down on a book, I try to read ones that are nothing like what I'm writing. So, as I'm currently working on a space opera (of sorts) I'm mostly indulging in urban fantasy.

I write fantasy because it's there. I have no other excuse for sitting down for several hours a day indulging my imagination. Daydreaming. Thinking up imaginary people, impossible places.

In the recession people are going to be looking even more at what movie stars are wearing, as it provides a fantasy outlet.

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

I'm a science fiction and fantasy geek.

My biggest fantasy as an actor is to be in situations that make me uncomfortable and force me out of my comfort zone.

Fantastic fiction covers fantasy, horror and science fiction - and it doesn't get the attention it deserves from the literati.

As a kid, I loved any fantasy.

I grew up watching classic animation, and I have always felt that the roots of animation is in fantasy and taking it in places that you can't go, any other way.

I live in Manhattan now, because, in a way, it was my fantasy.

I'm not a designer who is very interested in baroque or in fantasy or in the fantastic side of fashion. This exists and this is important, but I'm interested in the very real dimensions.

Wes Anderson grew up in Houston, and he and I talk about Manhattan in similar ways, as a kind of fantasy world.

Personally I kept my feelings out of it and created a fantasy. That's the process of going through this world being beautiful.

I always find myself pulled back into the fantasy genre, and I can't really explain it.

Actually ninety-nine percent of my acting has nothing to do sci-fi or fantasy, I consider it a good part of my acting, and enjoy the roles I play.

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.

Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.

I'd listen to all the stuff that was going on around me and drift off into my fantasies about it. My fantasies have fuelled all the songs I've ever written.

My taste in watching things runs from dramas and low-budget films to high-end fantasy/science fiction.

Every kid I meet who's a reader has got something like that, their fantasy world. And science fiction is the best, especially for girls because it's the one place where you can do the forbidden.

We are moving away from myths and toward fantasy role-playing games, away from movies and toward videogames.

Passion and persistence are what matter. Dreams are achievable and you can make your fantasy come true, but there are no shortcuts. Nothing happens without hard work.