Alethea Kontis Quotes

The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.

We've let the blade of our innocence dull over time, and it's only in innocence that you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage.

I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.

I think that true love, fairy tales, the positive messages of positive stories - I don't think those ever die. Sometimes we like to hide them in sarcasm or irony, but they are still there, and they still move us.

The most irresistible charm of youth is its bubbling enthusiasm. Youth sees no darkness ahead - no defile that has no outlet - it forgets that there is such a thing as failure in the world and believes that mankind has been waiting all these centuries for him to come and be the liberator of truth and energy and beauty.

Life would be very dreary if there were no magic. If the real world were only that veil of tears, I just don't think could get up in the morning.

I'm still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive.

It takes a lot to wound a man without illusions.

I hope people remember me as a guy who brought magic to the people. You know, pushed the boundaries of wonder.

There's a crazy amount of goodwill, and I don't know where it came from, and I don't understand, but the more I pay attention to it, the more it's going to sting when it flips, so I think I'm almost subconsciously cultivating this naivety to it all.

One thing that I think never goes out of style is just purity. Niceness and purity. And the Muppets have never lost that. Kermit especially is just wide-eyed wonder, unblinking. And he can't blink. Which I think probably helps.

I'm a horrible romantic!

Everybody is idealistic when you're a kid.

As children, our imaginations are vibrant, and our hearts are open. We believe that the bad guy always loses and that the tooth fairy sneaks into our rooms at night to put money under our pillow. Everything amazes us, and we think anything is possible. We continuously experience life with a sense of newness and unbridled curiosity.

I have always been a romantic, one of those people who believes that a woman in pink circus tights contains all the secrets of the universe.

Children are born with their own optimism. They have a clarity and a simplicity that we can only wish for.

A lot of our assumptions of the world are fairly cynical, fairly negative, and assume the worst. What our reading tastes show - in this rush to fantasy, romance, whatever - is that we actually still want to believe in a world of possibility, in a world of mystery.

As cynical as I can be, there's always a part of me that believes in love and the fairy tale.

I used to be a hopeless romantic - I fell in love with everyone I went out with.

Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one.

Elizabeth Taylor was an incurable romantic at heart. She never gave up on the notion that a love strong enough to last a lifetime was waiting for her around the next corner.

Youth is easily deceived, because it is quick to hope.

I guess there's something that's appealing to me about people that are aspirational-slash-deluded.

I'm incredibly hopeful - in many ways, still very naive. I think a lot of that has helped me. My sort of naivete has sort of gotten me in trouble at times, but I haven't stopped myself from doing things.

Although my mom and I had often disagreed politically and personally, she'd led our family by example, instilling in us a can-do attitude that often defied reason - an optimism many would call foolish, ignorant, and naive, but an optimism that occasionally shocked our neighbors and our world with its brazen veracity.