Quotes of: Fantastic Keyword

Who are we to make such a decision? To allow another living being - any living being - to die, when ours is the power to prevent it? - Reed Richards (Mister Fantastic)

The Fantastic Four: The Trial of Galactus

The reality of life is chaos; the fantasy of man is order. (..) The world of art, the world of games, the world of politics, so many worlds men make for themselves, are in a very fundamental way fantastic.

The Fantastic In Literature

Children seem to need, then, a delicate balance between the realistic and the fantastic in their art; enough of the realistic to know that the story matters, enough of the fantastic to make what matters wonderful

Fantastic Worlds: Myths, Tales, and Stories

Fantastic days are what you wish upon those who have so few sunrises left, those whose lungs are so lesion-spangled with new cancer that they should be embracing as much life as they can. Time's a-wasting, go out and have yourself a fantastic day! Fa...

David Rakoff

I am lucky: I have fantastic doctors and a fantastic dentist.

Anna Deavere Smith

Supernatural fiction contains its own generic borderland: a neutral territory, which Tzvetan Todorov calls 'the fantastic,' between 'the marvelous' and 'the uncanny.' According to Todorov, 'The fantastic is that hesitation experienced by a person who...

The Haunted Dusk

Man is a fantastic animal; he was born of fantasy, he is the son of "the mad woman of the house." And universal history is the gigantic and thousand-year effort to go on putting order into that huge, disorderly, anti-animal fantasy. What we call reas...

An Interpretation of Universal History

Ever boy deserves a father.

Fantastic Four, Volume 5

Fantastic writing in English is kind of disreputable, but fantastic writing in translation is the summit.

Jonathan Lethem

What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real.

Andre Breton

I am a fantastic nurse. I discovered this about myself, and I'm really fantastic about diagnosing things.

Jill Flint

You know, every year has been fantastic for me, I'm still here, I'm still alive and it's been fantastic.

Graham Nash

[from trailer] Mrs. Fox: You know, you really are... fantastic. Mr. Fox: I try.

Fantastic Mr. Fox

The fantastic in literature doesn't exist as a challenge to what is probable, but only there where it can be increased to a challenge of reason itself: the fantastic in literature consists, when all has been said, essentially in showing the world as ...

Lars Gustafsson

What a writer brought to a book didn't matter as much as what the reader contributed.

Shelf Life: Fantastic Stories Celebrating Bookstores

Dr. Abe Sapirstein: Fantastic! Absolutely fantastic! What did you say the name was? Machado?

Rosemary's Baby

Like the playwrights of the Absurd, Woolrich recognized that a senseless story best mirrors a senseless existence.

The Fantastic Stories of Cornell Woolrich

Men's loyalty to their women dies hard - and almost always too late. ("I'm Dangerous Tonight")

The Fantastic Stories of Cornell Woolrich

And the blood remembers what the heart has never learned. The approach to kill. ("The Moon Of Montezuma")

The Fantastic Stories of Cornell Woolrich

The portieres were drawn across the French windows now, veiling the stars outside - that were there nevertheless. ("Speak To Me Of Death")

The Fantastic Stories of Cornell Woolrich

Extreme joy and extreme sorrow are indistinguishable beyond a certain point. ("Jane Brown's Body")

The Fantastic Stories of Cornell Woolrich