Top 1200 Dark Fantasy Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Pompeii, especially, with its grand murals and its flourishing gardens haunted by the dark shadow of Vesuvius, has always suggested uncomfortable parallels with our contemporary world, especially here in Southern California, where the sunlit life also turns out to have dark shadows in which failure and death lurk at the edge of consciousness. Now in these times, we have even closer parallels with those ancient, beautiful, affluent people living the good life on the verge of annihilation.

When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it - right away.

Playing baseball is not real life. It's a fantasy world... It's a dream come true.

The Lord of the Rings movie set an entirely new standard for fantasy in the movies.

That's the whole thing about fashion: it's fantasy. To dip into that at 18 and 19 was amazing.

Playing with Queen was the biggest moment of my career. It was like living a childhood fantasy.

When a band means a lot to you, you build the fantasy more than the reality. Always.

People often ask me if fantasy is about escapism, and I personally don't think it is.

There's something about fantasy and sci-fi that seems more welcoming of different ethnicities.

It's wonderful to play around with fantasy, because there are an amazing number of as-yet-unbroken rules out there.

The reason why so many of my photographs in the book were taken in stairwells and corridors was that that was the only bit of spare space available and, in some cases, the only place where there was enough light to see anything. Even then, it was often so dark that I couldn't tell which gender my subject was (not that I particularly cared) and too dark, before the era of autofocus, to focus. I had to find a light (or carry a torch) and pre-focus.

Outside the street's on fire in a real death waltz between what's flesh and what's fantasy.

My first airplane trip was to Paris. I had this fantasy that I would become a model, and I did!

Photographic fantasy: more agile and faster in discoveries than murky subconscious processes!

She wanted to feel safe. Untouchable in her home. The ultimate female fantasy.

In a stagnant environment the body-mind creates its own adversity – disease and fantasy.

I think I'll give it up, the fantasy is over, I wanted to play Spiderman, Peter Parker.

What's so strong about 'Game of Thrones' is that it's a character and political drama, with a sort of fantasy backdrop.

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.

In the fantasy, sci-fi world, the fans are so discerning and they're so tough and they're so intelligent, and they're so critical.

If you look at any ancient civilization, they've all used fantasy stories to train the young.

I find the comic book audience a lot more intense than the fantasy one, definitely.

The problem with most genre fantasy is that it's not nearly fantastic enough. It's escapist, but it can't escape.

Creating fantasy is a very personal thing, but you can't take the process too personally.

There is a rule for fantasy writers: The more truth you mix in with a lie, the stronger it gets.

Most people spend their entire lives on a fantasy island called 'Someday I'll.'

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I'm a fan of the Strokes, so my big fantasy was that one day I would get to sing with them.

I think literature is somehow both a fantasy and a reality we should all get back to.

People don't want to hear the truth; they never do. They wanna live in some kind of fantasy.

The culture of celebrity has become insane. It's all based on fantasy, and I find it creepy and disturbing.

In visual futurism, the line between total fantasy and futuristic is a thread of reality.

The Golden Compass is one of the best fantasy / adventure stories that I have read. This is a book no one should miss.

I've put my days of fantasy behind me and make authentic realistic films.

I associate heavy metal with fantasy because of the tremendous power that the music delivers.

Of course I was a fan when I was a kid. That's what made me get into it, the whole rock n' roll fantasy.

What matters at this stage is the construction of local forms of community within which civility and the intellectual and moral life can be sustained through the new dark ages which are already upon us. And if the tradition of the virtues was able to survive the horrors of the last dark ages, we are not entirely without ground for hope. This time however the barbarians are not waiting beyond the frontiers; they have already been governing us for quite some time.

And because there is something they can’t see people think it has to be special, because people always think there is something special about what they can’t see, like the dark side of the moon, or the other side of a black hole, or in the dark when they wake up at night and they’re scared.

All that political stuff Delano was doing. Me, I've gone off the top, into total fantasy.

Louis B. Mayer is one of those with a claim to posessing the equation... he began to buy up nickelodeon arcades in the years before the First World War in and around Boston. He had noticed that people liked going into the dark to see the light... the appeal of the movies is beyond the sensible, rational or the hard-working. Going into the dark, afte centuries of progress in which mankind has staggered toward artificial light, smacks of delicious perversity.

I think every fantasy reader secretly believes they know how magic works.

Truth will flourish in fantasy, only to wither and die in what you are pleased to call reality.

I'm, uh, not proud to say it - I play fantasy baseball. It's, like, the dorkiest thing ever.

One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality.

I'm thinking of putting together an all-star band. I definitely have a bit of a rock fantasy.

When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it right away.

I'm a big fan of superheroes and fantasy and sci-fi. I have been since I was a child.

That was my fantasy, actually - to become a billionaire, buy the 'Sun' and the 'Mirror,' and close them down.

The line between outside and inside is fuzzier in fantasy. Maybe that's something people are looking for.

Fantasy is my heart and love. And I just want to play in that garden for the rest of my life.

I guess housewives like to get away from reality and enjoy the fantasy world for a bit.

I've always liked monster movies and I've always been fascinated by - again, growing up in a culture where death was looked upon as a dark subject and living so close to Mexico where you see the Day of the Dead with the skeletons and it's all humor and music and dancing and a celebration of life in a way. That always felt more of a positive approach to things. I think I always responded to that more than this dark, unspoken cloud in the environment I grew up in.

I'd like to write the way I do my paintings, that is, as fantasy takes me, as the moon dictates.

Time travel is a fantasy we all have. The 'Back to the Future' series really exploits that wish.

My biggest fantasy love affair was with Dustin Hoffman. It's so bizarre. Also Anthony Hopkins.

Superstition is just fantasy with attitude; it's a way of erroneously trying to control events.

Reality depresses me. I need to find fantasy worlds and escape in them.

I'm only involved really right now with the Art Ensemble of Chicago and the Brass Fantasy.

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

'Temeraire' is a terrific meld of two genres that I particularly love - fantasy and historical epic.