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"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 Anson Heinlein
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"The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy." »Lionel Trilling, The Liberal Imagination (1950)
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"The kingdoms of fantasy and mirth are longlasting and not of this world." »V. S. Pritchett
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"Harrison Ford as the President of the United States in Air Force One is such a perfect piece of casting that it's once a fantasy and a joke The joke is how perfect the fantasy is." »Owen Gleiberman
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"I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy." »Marilyn Monroe
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"All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination." »Carl Jung
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"CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power." »Arthur C. Clarke
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"When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking." »Albert Einstein
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"When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge." »Albert Einstein
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"The bigger the real-life problems, the greater the tendency for the discipline to retreat into a reassuring fantasy-land of abstract theory and technical manipulation." »Tom Naylor
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"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities." »Dr. Seuss
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"I don't know what kind of weapons will be used in the third world war, assuming there will be a third world war. But I can tell you what the fourth world war will be fought with -- stone clubs." »Albert Einstein
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"There are many people in the world who really don't understand-or say they don't-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. ... Let them come to Berlin" »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"If you have decided to change the world, don't read the books about the dimensions of the world! Be like a meteorite; strike the world with your ideas with utter courage and with infinite fearlessness!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Were there but one virtuous man in the world, he would hold up his head with confidence and honor; he would shame the world, and not the world him." »South
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"We must not just be in the world and above the world, but also of the world. To love it for what it is... is the only task. Avoid it and you are lost. Loose yourself in it, and you are free." »Henry Miller, in a letter to Lawrence Durrell
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"To form a judgment intuitively is the privilege of few; authority and example lead the rest of the world. They see with the eyes of others, they hear with the ears of others. Therefore it is very easy to think as all the world now think; but to think as all the world will think thirty years hence is not in the power of every one." »Schopenhauer
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"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dream. Wandering by lone sea breakers, and sitting by desolate streams. world losers and world forsakers, for whom the pale moon gleams. Yet we are movers and the shakers of the world forever it seems." »Arthur O'Shaunessey
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"This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come." »Frederick William Robertson
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"This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come." »Frederick William Robertson
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"If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world, and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day." »E. B. White
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"Fact of the matter is, there is no hip world, there is no straight world. There's a world, you see, which has people in it who believe in a variety of different things. Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence." »Frank Zappa
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"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born." »Anais Nin
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"We are at that very point in time when a 400-year-old age is dying and another is struggling to be born - a shifting of culture, science, society and institutions enormously greater than the world has ever experienced. Ahead, the possibility of regeneration of individuality, liberty, community and ethics such as the world has never known, and a harmony with nature, with one another and with the divine intelligence such as the world has always dreamed." »Dee W. Hock
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"Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born." »Anais Nin
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"I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"Neo I know you're out there. I can feel you now. I know that you're afraid... afraid of us. You're afraid of change. I don't know the future. I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell how it's going to begin. I'm going to hang up this phone, and then show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a world without you. A world without rules or controls, borders or boundaries. A world where anything is possible. Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you." »Matrix, The
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"This is the way the world endsThis is the way the world endsThis is the way the world endsNot with a bang but a whimper." »T. S. Eliot
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"You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can't, but also knowing that literature is indispensable to the world... The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way ... people look at reality, then you can change it." »James Arthur Baldwin
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"Our first responsibility is not to build the Church or even to get souls saved--it is to represent Christ and to bring His message to the world. As God beholds us in Christ, so the world must behold Christ in us. As Christ represents us before the Father, so we must represent Christ before the world." »Cornelius Stam
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