Top 1200 Fictional Worlds Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs.

There are thousands of lesser chakras. Chakras are doorways to other worlds. When you focus on them, you step into something else.

If you watch young children play, you will notice that they create games, characters, situations, whole worlds in which they immerse themselves with intense concentration.

I like the mix of something farmlike and something futuristic and artsy mixed together. It's kind of both my worlds.

What I do believe in is other worlds and spirits. There is some other power in control - levels of energy that perhaps we don't see.

I don't separate my books into historical novels and the rest. To me, they're all made-up worlds, and both kinds are borne out of curiosity, some investigation into the past.

We want 'McMafia' to be a tense gangster story but also a family story. It's a collusion of those two worlds.

I've always been a big fan of Guillermo del Toro, 'Pan's Labryinth' blew me away. The stories and the worlds that he's created, he is truly a visionary!

Move beyond the limited parameters that most human beings have and realize that there are thousands and millions of worlds beyond this world.

My alternative to American superpower is the UN and I might add when China becomes the worlds greatest superpower you will need it too.

Stories about sensitive issues like sex, drugs or sexual assault, suicide and teen drinking, are often censored because people just don't want to talk about those things. It's not that these things don't happen, but when they're shared in a fictional setting, for some reason they make some people uncomfortable.

I do try to pick music that is from different worlds and typically doesn't flow together. When you do that, you get songs with conflicting messages, but for me, it's on a musical level first and foremost.

I had been chipping at the world idly, and had by accident uncovered vast and labyrinthine further worlds within it.

The task of man is not to discover new worlds, but to discover his own world in terms of human comprehension and beauty.

I love Japan. I love the collision of the modern and ancient worlds coming together in that place. It's so high-tech and cool.

I don't think I will ever cross-contaminate my private life and my family life with my public and professional worlds.

The essential premise of Buddhism is that there is enlightenment, there is nirvana. Beyond this world, beyond all worlds, there's something radiant, perfect and eternal.

[Charles] Reznikoff was in between faiths, in between worlds... a double, hyphenated American. I think it probably goes deeper than that.

That world of spies and espionage, there's a coldness to it. That's what makes those worlds fascinating - and what makes le Carre's work so interesting.

It was two different worlds: my world - cricket, the dressing room and the lads. And then family. Even when they travelled with me, it wasn't always easy to bridge the gap.

The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.

I don't think I ever relinquish a person I have known, and surely not my fictional characters. I see them, I hear them, with a clarity that I would call hallucinatory if hallucination didn't mean something else ... A character whom we create can never die, any more than a friend can die ... Through [my characters] I've lived many parallel lives.

One of my core values is to help redefine what it means to be a strong and beautiful woman in the music and fashion worlds and to empower the wonderful things that make us unique.

In virtual reality, it's more about capturing and creating worlds that people are inhabiting. You really are a creator in the way the audience lives within the world that you are building.

We can do things that we never could before. Stop-motion lets you build tiny little worlds, and computers make that world even more believable.

. . . persist in that invocation until the unity of the world is subsumed for you in a single sphere, so that with the eye of your heart you will see naught in the two worlds save the One.

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

I really love living in cities where the people living above, below and next to you are from totally different worlds to you.

What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully.

I tell people, 'I don't make music, I make worlds.'

There are worlds of possibility inherent in our consciousness that can facilitate our own transformation. What future have you imagined for yourself?

... everyone knew that all islands were worlds unto themselves, that to come to an island was to come to another world.

Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison. I am near, too near for him to dream of me.

I come from a lot of different worlds, and you can't really place me in a category. I'm just kind of me, and that's what you get.

This world is full of beauty, as other worlds above, and if we did our duty, it might be as full of love.

Sometimes we need to open our eyes wide and intentionally look for Jesus, in the midst of our own worlds.

If you're playing a fictional character, you can create a character, you can sort of take certain liberties. And when you're playing a real person who's actually standing there watching you, you know, it's - you do feel a weight. You know, you feel an obligation to not only be - to give the best performance that you can, but to make sure that you represent this person.

In 1850, August Salzmann photographed, near Jerusalem, the road to Beith-Lehem (as it was spelled at the time): nothing but stony ground, olive trees; but three tenses dizzy my consciousness: my present, the time of Jesus, and that of the photographer, all this under the instance of 'reality' - and no longer through the elaborations of the text, whether fictional or poetic, which itself is never credible down to the root.

I had my foot in both worlds. I knew what I didn't want, and so I had to make a choice, just like N.W.A. made choices.

Repeat, over and over again, in case anyone forgets it or believes the contrary, that we do not live in the best of all possible worlds.

I want to find the intersection between digital media and traditional media and be pioneering the endeavor to merge the two worlds.

One hundred artists introduce us to one hundred worlds.

Some women lose their husbands, and their worlds change because their financial circumstances change. All I have in common with them is a grief.

War of the Worlds is rated PG-13. Much of the earth's population is wiped out, leaving very little time for sex or bad language.

Documentaries are a powerful and effective way of bridging the gap between worlds, breaking through to new audiences that wouldn't otherwise be engaged - in essence, not preaching to the choir.

I was born and raised in China, Mandarin is my first language, and I definitely know America. I think that will be my strength, to try and bring the two worlds together.

In the broad spectrum of the arts, two worlds rarely overlap - the literary world and the world of rock music.

Verily, God hath eighteen thousand worlds; and verily, your world is one of them, and this its bright axle-tree.

What we are seeking is the nexus of all possible worlds and states of mind, which is within us. The source of yin and yang is within you.

Today, I would describe a preistess as a woman who lives in two worlds at once, who perceives life on earth against a backdrop of a vast, timeless, reality.

I am a woman with a foot in both worlds; and I refuse the split. I feel the necessity for dialogue. Sometimes I feel it urgently.

Dancing is when you rise above both worlds, tearing your heart to pieces & giving up your soul

Realistic novels simply pretend that the rules of their invented worlds are identical to the rules of actual life, but that's a ruse.

What would it be like to have not only color vision but culture vision, the ability to see the multiple worlds of others.

Guillermo del Toro is able to invent his worlds. I would find the pressure of having to invent crippling.

I cry for everything I abandoned and because I, too, have been left behind -- by Alex, by my mom, by time that has cut through our worlds and separated us.

Ah, books." Ziegler, smiling, came up behind me. "They bob like corks on an ocean. Float between worlds, messages in bottles.

I feel so selfish, because I want the best of both worlds. I want to keep the image I've worked so hard to create.

In my entire life, I have ten people that are the closest people to me. They're my family, and I really don't mesh worlds that often.

I like fantasy. I like worlds where sometimes you need the special effects to make it come alive, but it's not so fun acting it.