Coco Chanel Quotes

I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature; lace always evokes for me those incomparable designs which the branches and leaves of trees embroider across the sky, and I do not think that any invention of the human spirit could have a more graceful or precise origin.

Coco Chanel

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• Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Diversity
  • Fantasy
  • Genre

• Fantasy is sort of a blank slate that everybody can project their own culture onto. Everybody can read it in their own way.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Culture
  • Way
  • Fantasy

• With epic fantasy, there is a tendency for it to be quintessentially conservative in that its job is to restore what is perceived to be out of whack.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Job
  • Fantasy
  • Conservative

• I've read every single fantasy novel there is. I mean, I would challenge a lot of people to read more fantasy novels than I have.

  

  Felicia Day
  • People
  • Single
  • Challenge

• I've had a love affair with the desert ever since I can remember. No matter what I wrote - contemporary romance, spy thriller, high fantasy - it was going to have a desert in it.

  

  Rae Carson
  • Remember
  • Desert
  • Fantasy

• When I do a horror or a fantasy film it all boils down to something in the script that surprises me. It could be a big thing or a small moment. If it's there I'll do it.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Film
  • Moment
  • Fantasy

• To me, steampunk and urban fantasy are naturally hinged together. And I think that's because I love the early gothic Victorian literature, and both things spring from that movement.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Literature
  • Movement
  • Fantasy

• Wizards was my homage to Tolkien in the American idiom. I had read Tolkien, understood Tolkien, and wanted to do a sort of fantasy for American kids, and that was Wizards.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Kids
  • American
  • Fantasy

• As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Fantasy
  • Africa
  • Adolescent

• The blurring of fantasy and reality is something that the Japanese herald in their life, in their day-to-day commercialism.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Japanese

• Slipstream fiction is usually defined as fiction with a contemporary setting in which story elements are mimetic (that is, seem real) - except for one or two eerie strangenesses. Unlike outright fantasy, these are not explained or integrated into an alternate-reality setting.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Real
  • Reality
  • Story

• I've always felt that 'X-Men' was about something serious. It wasn't just fantasy.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Men
  • Always
  • Serious

• Hungry for both fantasy and inspiration, readers crave protagonists who, after overcoming seemingly insurmountable obstacles, triumph at the end of the day.

  

  Lionel Shriver
  • Inspiration
  • Obstacles
  • Fantasy

• I draw on my memories but blended with a lot of fantasy.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • Memories
  • Fantasy
  • Blended

• I suppose that every age has its own particular fantasy: ours is science. A seventeenth-century man like Blaise Pascal, who thought himself a mathematician and scientist of genius, found it quite ridiculous that anyone should suppose that rational processes could lead to any ultimate conclusions about life, but easily accepted the authority of the Scriptures. With us, it is the other way `round

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Life
  • Age
  • Science

• When George Graham was there they complained, harking back to better days, but I think that's a fantasy.

  

  Alan Hansen
  • I Think
  • Fantasy
  • George Graham

• We're all just big kids. That's all we are. We are artistes. We grew up wanting to be part of the fantasy of the fairy tales and the stories.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Bigs

• I have a lot of fantasies about being tied up and spanked. I suppose it isn't very liberated, is it? What kind of fantasies do feminists have?

  

  J. F. Lawton
  • Up
  • Kind
  • Feminist

• Lovers and madmen have such seething brains Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Reason
  • Brain
  • Fantasy

• I believe in the critical importance of participating in the political system - from voting to standing for election. It's both rewarding and necessary that men and women of good will and clear thinking engage in honest, open debate.

  

  Michael Nutter
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Political

• There may be millions of hosts that are now vulnerable to something that they weren't vulnerable to before.

  

  Dan Kaminsky
  • Vulnerable
  • Millions
  • Hosts

• The idea with theatre is to come to an environment that you enjoy.

  

  Clive Rowe
  • Environment
  • Enjoy
  • Idea

• I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature; lace always evokes for me those incomparable designs which the branches and leaves of trees embroider across the sky, and I do not think that any invention of the human spirit could have a more graceful or precise origin.

  

  Coco Chanel
  • Fantasy
  • Human Spirit
  • Designs