(308 quotes found)
“Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.”
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
“Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.”
Carl Gustav Jung
“To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy -- and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.”
Robert A. Heinlein
“A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses”
John Milton
“What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.”
Edward Albee
“Stories ought not to be just little bits of fantasy that are used to wile away an idle hour; from the beginning of the human race stories have been used - by priests, by bards, by medicine men - as magic instruments of healing, of teaching, as a means of helping people come to terms with the fact that they continually have to face insoluble problems and unbearable realities”
Joan Delano Aiken
“When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it - right away”
Stewart Brand
“True, I talk of dreams,Which are the children of an idle brain,Begot of nothing but vain fantasy.”
William Shakespeare
“In my fantasy, you look good entwinedIn my hair and skin and spit and sweat and spilled red wine”
Brandon Boyd
“[The colors on citrus-crate labels] went beyond nature and spoke directly to fantasy: apricot, purple, cobalt blue, sea green, cinnamon, cinnabar, mauve, yellow, orange.”
Kevin Starr
