Top 1200 Fantasy Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

Publishers often push women in a subtle way to focus on fantasy and paranormal writing.

Every religion seems like a fantasy to outsiders, but as holy truth to those of the faith.

I'm not a big fan of fantasy; I'd rather watch 'Desperate Housewives' than 'Game of Thrones.'

I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.

When I started writing this, I found that I simply couldn't take fantasy seriously, so it became humorous, and continued from there.

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

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

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

Dreams are not without meaning wherever they may come from — from fantasy, from the elements, or from another inspiration.

The sentient beast has long been a staple of fantasy fiction and its antecedents in myth and folktale.

The arrangement bore the same relation to actual finance as fantasy football bears to the NFL.

Heaven is on this earth. There are no angels on the clouds with twanging harps... That's just another man's fantasy.

My path to poetry was slow and meandering. When I eventually found my way to graduate school at 29, making a life as a poet seemed like a bohemian fantasy. But maybe my zigzagging trajectory is just an excuse for tardiness, when fear is really the root of any reason I might give. My perfectionism and pace are certainly driven by fear that a poem is imperfect or incomplete. More significantly, my struggle to fully dedicate myself to poetry was a fear of failure.

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

The Oscar is the fantasy that you're afraid to believe in, but in the secrecy of your dark room, you dream and wait for it.

I think sometimes you have to imagine a fantasy world in which we are represented and visible the way we should be.

I've been in love with the cinema since childhood and it's a fantasy of mine to appear in a Hollywood movie.

Up through and including Lincoln, American politicians nursed a fantasy of repatriating blacks to Africa.

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

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

Whenever I work on anything, there's always the fantasy that what one is doing is the next 'Citizen Kane'-slash-'Sopranos.'

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

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

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

A man's primary fantasy is access to a variety of attractive women without the fear of rejection.

I believe that I have now experienced the lifetime maximum exposure to bottom spanking in fantasy novels.

I always gravitated a bit towards more of the fantasy, and 'Lost Girl' really fits in with that.

Fantasy is hard to do when it comes to making it look good compared to something that's a documentary or hyper-realism.

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.

Mama says I spend too much time in little fantasy worlds and not enough in this one.

I think fantasy thrillers excite audiences as, inherently, people have a fascination for the unknown and the unexplained.

I secretly harbor the fantasy of becoming an action star at any moment. I know I'd be great at it.

I am not that big of a fantasy person. I prefer myself to think of living in the real world.

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

I'm told my SF is of the hard variety and my Fantasy is romantic but hopefully all the characters are strong and the plots are lively.

It was a lot of insensitivity, especially as maybe as far as the 'Africa' video goes. But the song was about a fantasy.

'Doctor Who' is where my love of science fiction and fantasy started. I was introduced to it when I was 8, and I'm still an avid viewer.

Any romantic feelings for a 12-year-old are like entering into a fantasy world.

It was not the story of design or clothes, it was the fantasy of women that made me want to work in fashion.

Science fiction is really a rather tiny business compared with its giant cousin, which is fantasy.

I collect fantasy swords, replicas from films, and have them displayed on the wall as you go up the stairs.

The experience of directing yourself in a sex scene is, in a way, great. It's the fantasy we all have in our lives all the time.

We all have this fantasy of finding our one true love who's going to be the perfect fit. It's just not a reality.

I think the worst that can happen in filmmaking is if you're working with a storyboard. That kills all intuition, all fantasy, all creativity.

Science fiction and fantasy is a kind of literature that embodies the highest aspirations of the human race.

Men live in a fantasy world. I know this because I am one, and I actually receive my mail there

... everything written is at least in part fantasy. Except maybe the national budget. That's horror.

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.

Animation is incredibly difficult - much like doing a giant sweeping fantasy novel.

There is an island fantasy A "Someday I'll," we'll never see When recession stops, inflation ceases Our mortgage is paid, our pay increases That Someday I'll where problems end Where every piece of mail is from a friend Where the children are sweet and already grown . . . . Most unhappy people . . . put happiness on "law away" And struggle through a blue today . . . . Life's most important revelation Is that the journey means more than the destination . . .

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can.

Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.

Television brings with it two dangerous hazards: the worship of celebrity and the blurring of reality and fantasy.

A myth is a fantasy, a preferred lie, a foundational story, a hypnotic trance, an identity game, a virtual reality, one that can be either inspirational or despairing. It is a story in which I cast myself; it is my inner cinema, the motion picture of my inner reality - one that moves all the time. No diagnosis can fix the myth, no cure can settle it, because our inner life is precisely what, in us, will not lie still.

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

'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.

In my mind, New York was the place where they had the underground rap shows and I could get in on some ciphers and just rap. This whole fantasy world I had created in my head about New York just from listening to the music my whole life, like, I'ma go up there and do that. But when I came up here, there was none of that, that scene was dead.

Me, I was already jaded and tarnished, skeptical that a fantasy world could keep reality at bay.

That's the fantasy dream project, to collaborate with someone who preaches the gospel of art through music.