“Glamour's my thing. The glamour is what got me into this business in the first place. I lived in a fantasy world in order to survive. Now that I'm here, I plan to work it. That means playing the part--long, tight dresses, slick! Unless you rise to the occasion, Hollywood doesn't really exist.” WorldFirstsMeanLongOrderFantasyPlansHollywoodDressesOccasionsWorking ItGlamourSlickFantasy WorldsTight Dresses Author:Theresa Randle
“The colour blue - that is my colour - and the colour blue means you have left the drabness of day-to-day reality to be transported into - not a world of fantasy, it’s not a world of fantasy - but a world of freedom where you can say what you like and what you don’t like. This has been expressed forever by the colour blue, which is really sky blue.” WorldMeanHas BeensRealityLeftFantasyForeverSkyBlueColourDay To Day Author:Louise Bourgeois
“Imagination doesn’t just mean making things up. It means thinking things through, solving them, or hoping to do so, and being just distant enough to be able to laugh at things that are normally painful. Head teachers would call this escapism, but they would be entirely wrong. I would call fantasy the most serious, and the most useful, branch of writing there is. And this is why I don’t, and never would, write Real Books.” ThinkingWritingMeanBookRealEnoughWould BeAbleImaginationFantasyLaughingTeacherSeriousPainfulBranchesEscapismReal BooksThinking Things Through Book:Reflections Source: Reflections
“There is an island fantasy A "Someday I'll," we'll never see When recession stops, inflation ceases Our mortgage is paid, our pay increases That Someday I'll where problems end Where every piece of mail is from a friend Where the children are sweet and already grown . . . . Most unhappy people . . . put happiness on "law away" And struggle through a blue today . . . . Life's most important revelation Is that the journey means more than the destination . . .” PeopleMeanChildrenImportantEndsProblemTodayLawPayFantasyStrugglePiecesJourneySweetIncreasePaidBlueCeaseUnhappyIslandsRevelationsSomedayDestinationMailInflationMortgageRecessionsHappy PeopleLife StruggleUnhappy PeopleToday Life Author:Denis Waitley
“I mean, I could go ahead and cut my head off in the guillotine, and it looks great, ... Well, now you turn on CNN and guys are really getting their heads cut off. ... As insane as our fantasy world gets, it's nowhere near as scary as reality.” WorldWellsLooksMeanRealityGuyTurnsFantasyCuttingScaryInsaneTurn-onCnnFantasy WorldsGuillotine Author:Alice Cooper
“I wish more fantasy, especially the dominant fantasy that draws heavily on British and Christian lore, would wrestle with its own ethnospecific nature and what that means when the story is set somewhere where more than one belief system is in operation. If all you do is pay lip service to it, you can get the kind of thing where the writer has thrown one Hindu god into a Christianist fantasy (rendering said god by default a demon or otherwise inferior to the dominant religious system of the story, which is such an insult), and the hero is able to vanquish it by chanting a spell in church Latin.” IfsKindMeanSaidStoriesAbleChristianBeliefWishChurchReligiousPayFantasyHeroDrawsLipsBritishOperationsDemonInsultThrownLatinSpellsInferiorsDominantDefaultBelief SystemsRenderingChantingLip ServiceVanquishHindu God Author:Nalo Hopkinson
“Oh maturity's a wrapped up package deal so it seems And ditching teenage fantasy means ditching all your dreams All your friends and peers and family solemnly tell you you will Have to grow up be an adult yeah be bored and unfulfilled Oh when no ones yet explained to me exactly what's so great About slaving 50 years away on something that you hate, about meekly shuffling down the path of mediocrity Well if that's your road then take it but it's not the road for me.” IfsYearsWellsMeanDreamSeemsHateGrowsDealsFantasyGrowing UpPathAdultsYeahBoredMaturityYour DreamsMediocrityPeersTeenagePackagesShufflingDitching Author:Frank Turner
“So you know what we have to do is stop looking for leadership from the top, because the least among us make their way into those positions of power... So what we have to do is knock off this fantasy of being citizens inside a democratic state, I mean, what we are, are the propagandized masses inside a fascist dictatorship.” KnowsWayMeanStatesFantasyPositionCitizensMassDemocraticDictatorshipFascistsPosition Of Power Author:Terence McKenna
“Anything other than free enterprise always means a society of compulsion and lower living standards, and any form of socialism strictly enforced means dictatorship and the total state. That this statement is still widely disputed only illustrates the degree to which malignant fantasy can capture the imagination of intellectuals.” LifeMeanStillsStatesFormImaginationFreedomBusinessFantasyDegreesStandardsSocialismStatementsEnterpriseCaptureDictatorshipCompulsionFree Enterprise Author:Llewellyn Rockwell
“The world of the arts is by no means always comfortable, but neither is it likely ever to be boring. It is full of surprises, humor, traps for the unwary, and challenges to smugness. It is a world of moods as well as of revelation, of beliefs and fears, of unpleasant truth as well as of delicious fantasy. Perhaps it is arrogant to say that anyone who does not venture into this world is only half-interested in life. I say it, nonetheless.” WorldWellsMeanDoeArtBeliefChallengesHalfFantasyThis WorldComfortableArt IsSurpriseBoringMoodRevelationsArrogantTrapsVentureDeliciousSmugness Author:Russell Lynes
“To search means, first, I need Being, Truth; second, I do not know where to find it; and third, an action takes place that is not based on fantasies of certainty— while at the same time a waiting takes place that is rooted not in wishful thinking but in a deep sense of urgency.” ThinkingKnowsNeedsFirstsMeanActionWaitingFantasyThirdsCertaintyRootedUrgencyWishful ThinkingSense Of Urgency Author:Jacob Needleman