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97,842. 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. (Fantasy & Einstein) Albert Einstein
98,698. I seem as in a trance sublime and strange
To muse on my own separate fantasy. Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mont Blanc
17,332. It’s all part of the fantasy. The fantasy that sustains him between killings. It’s about power and control and the thrill ... He’s creating his own pornography. (Gangs UK: Northern Ireland & Control & Fantasy) The Fall III starring Gillian Anderson & Jamie Dornan & Laura Donnelly & Ben Peel et al, BBC 2013, Anderson to team
24,576. I have no time for fantasies. Waste of time. Too many people dream of places they’ll never go, wishes they’ll never have, instead of paying attention to their real lives. (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine & Fantasy) Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s1e16: If Wishes Were Horses, Odo to Quark
72,472. Or is it a fantasy that plays upon our eyesight?
I prithee speak; we will not trust our eyes
Without our ears. Thou art not what thou seem’st. William Shakespeare, I Henry IV V iv 134-136, Prince Harry to Sir John
72,473. Is not this something more than fantasy? William Shakespeare, Hamlet I i 52, Barnado to Marcellus and Horatio
72,474. Everyone must have a fantasy. Andy Warhol
72,475. All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to deprecate imagination. (Fantasy & Imagination) Carl Jung
72,476. Most modern fantasy just rearranges the furniture in Tolkien’s attic. Terry Pratchett
72,477. 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. Dr Seuss, writer & cartoonist
72,478. The thing about fantasy – there are certain things you just don’t do in fantasy. J K Rowling
72,481. Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape? ... If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can! (Fantasy & Escape) J R R Tolkien
72,482. I have too many fantasies to be a housewife ... I guess I am a fantasy. (Fantasy & Monroe) Marilyn Monroe
72,479. I like grey characters; fantasy for too long has been focused on very stereotypical heroes and villains. George R R Martin
72,480. They can keep their heaven. When I die, I’d sooner go to Middle Earth. (Fantasy & Heaven) George R R Martin
72,483. What do you expect? They’re savages. One lot steals a goat from another lot and before you know it they’re ripping each other to pieces. Game of Thrones s1e1: Winter is Coming, starring Sean Bean & Mark Addy & Nikolai Coster Waldau & Michelle Fairley & Lena Headey & Emilia Clarke & Iain Glen & Harry Lloyd et al, director Tim van Patten, opening scene with dump of dead bodies, Ser Waymar Royce commander
72,484. Winter is coming. (Fantasy & Winter) ibid. Sean Bean as Lord Stark
72,485. The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. (Fantasy & Execution & Sword) ibid. Bean to boy
72,486. We were meant to rule together. (Fantasy & Rule) ibid. King to Bean
72,487. All dwarfs are bastards in their father’s eyes. (Fantasy & Dwarf & Bastard) ibid. dwarf
72,488. First lesson: stick them with the pointy end. (Fantasy & Sword) Game of Thrones s1e2: The Kingsroad, Jon Snow gives Arya her sword
72,489. All the best swords have names, you know. (Fantasy & Sword) ibid.
72,490. Five hundred men just stood there and watched. All the great knights of the Seven Kingdoms, you think anyone said a word, lifted a finger? No, Lord Stark. Five hundred men and this room was silent as a crypt ... except for the screams, of course, and the Mad King laughing. And later, when I watched the Mad King die, I remembered him laughing as your father burned ... it felt like justice. (Fantasy & Conformity) Game of Thrones s1e3: Lord Snow, Jaime Lannister
72,491. Oh, my sweet summer child. What do you know about fear? Fear is for the winter when the snows fall a hundred feet deep. Fear is for the long nights when the sun hides for years, and children are born and live and die, all in darkness. That is the time for fear, my little lord; when the white walkers move through the woods. (Fantasy & Fear) ibid. old nan
72,492. Distrusting me was the wisest thing you’ve done since you climbed off your horse. (Fantasy & Trust) Game of Thrones s1e4: Cripples, Bastards and Broken Things, Petyr Baelish
72,493. Your mother was a dumb whore with a fat arse! Did you know that? (Lancel dithers, then pulls off breastplate as Robert turns to Ned) Look at this idiot – one ball, and no brains! He can’t even put a man’s armour on him properly! (Fantasy & Insult) Game of Thrones s1e5, The Wolf and the Lion, Robert Baratheon
72,494. We who presume to rule must sometimes do vile things for the good of the realm. (Fantasy & Rule) ibid. Varys
72,495. Where do I begin, my lords and ladies? I’m a vile man; I confess it. My crimes and sins are beyond counting. I have lied and cheated. Gambled and whored. I’m not particularly good at violence, but I’m good at convincing others to do violence for me. You want specifics, I suppose? When I was seven, I saw a servant girl bathing in the river. I stole her robe. She was forced to return to the castle naked and in tears. If I close my eyes, I can still see her tits bouncing. When I was ten, I stuffed my uncle’s boots with goat shit. When confronted with my crime, I blamed a squire. Poor boy was flogged and I escaped justice. When I was twelve I milked my eel into a pot of turtle stew. I flogged the one-eyed snake. I skinned my sausage. I made the bald man cry! (Fantasy & Confession) Game of Thrones s1e6: A Golden Crown, Tyrion Lannister
72,496. He was no dragon. Fire cannot kill a dragon. (Fantasy & Dragon) ibid. Daenerys Targaryen
72,497. When you play the game of thrones you win or you die. There is no middle ground. Game of Thrones s1e7: You Win or Your Die, Queen to Bean
72,498. You’ll rule now; you’ll hate it more worse than I did. But you’ll do it well. (Fantasy & Rule) ibid. King to Bean
72,499. The seeing – the true seeing – that is the heart of swordplay. (Fantasy & Sword) Game of Thrones s1e8: The Pointy End
72,500. What do we say to the god of death? Not today. (Fantasy & Sword & Death) ibid. sword-fight tutor loses fight
72,501. When I was still a boy, before they cut my balls off with a hot knife ... I traveled with a group of actors through the Free Cities. They taught me that each man has a role to play. The same is true at court; I am the Master of Whisperers. My role is to be sly, obsequious, and without scruples [smiles and shrugs]. I am a good actor, my Lord. (Fantasy & Actor) Game of Thrones s1e9: Baelor, Varys
72,502. Love is the death of duty ... What is honour compared to a woman’s love? (Fantasy & Love) ibid. blind bloke
72,503. Robb Stark: I’ll kill them all. Every one of them. I’ll kill them all.
Catelyn Stark: My boy, they have your sisters. We have to get the girls back ... and then we will kill them all. (Fantasy & Kill) Game of Thrones s1e10: Fire and Blood
72,504. These are my terms! If the Queen Regent and her son meet them, I’ll give them peace. If not, I will litter the south with Lannister dead! Game of Thrones s2e1: The North Remembers, Robb Stark
72,505. Storms come and go. The big fish eat the little fish. And I keep on paddling. Game of Thrones s2e2: The Night Lands, Varys to Tyrion
72,506. Power resides where men believe it resides. It’s a trick. A shadow on the wall. And a very small man can caste a very long shadow. (Fantasy & Power) Game of Thrones s2e3: What is Dead May Never Die, Varys to Tyrion
72,507. Tywin Lannister: Why are these prisoners not in their cells?
Gregor Clegane: Cells are overflowing, my Lord. (Fantasy & Prison) Game of Thrones s2e4: Garden of Bones