Top 1200 Fictional Worlds Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Corporations are a fictional entity that are designed to make money, and they're neither people nor patriots.

Has there ever been anybody, real or fictional, whiter than Betty Crocker?

Blurryface is a fictional character and a reference to insecurities, which I think all people have.

I've never dated a fictional character before. The closest I ever came was an Italian.

Many of us are trying to lead multiple lives: child, mother, wife, lover, star, giving small doses of oxygen to each and imploding under the weight of so many competing roles. The women I have written in Bombshells struggle - sometimes hilariously, sometimes tragically - to bridge the chasm between the wilderness of their inner worlds and the demands of their outer worlds. And humour, in the end, is our saviour.

There is a certain fictional element that goes in playing a common person.

I'm a writer who never writes about sex. It's so far from my own fictional world.

Our identity is fictional, written by parents, relatives, education, society.

Writers are magpies, and we collect details about people and we use them for fictional characters.

Once you discover that real pirates are more interesting than fictional ones, you can't look away.

The fictional narratives that television, film, and the news provide for girls and young women are appalling.

It can be a fictional character and yet relatable... It always depends on the content of the film and what you are doing.

The world is a stage we walk upon. We are all in a way fictional characters who write ourselves with our beliefs.

It would require constant vigilance to not replace each person with my own fictional version of them.

The first mission to Mars did not expect to find craters and river valleys, and yet they did. The first mission to Jupiter didn't expect to find ocean worlds and volcano worlds, but they did.

History releases me from my own experience and jogs my fictional imagination.

The real world is far more hellish for all us than any fictional representation of it.

I'd rather feel empathy for a character that's fictional, so it doesn't quite tie into personal experience as much.

We've been able to create those personalities that are not anonymous that can somehow support exposure but in a fictional way.

I discovered that there was no difference between playing a real-life character and a fictional one.

I much prefer films based on fact rather than fictional stories.

The story line of my novel [The Kite Runner] is largely fictional. The characters were invented and the plot imagined.

I began writing fictional stories and little screenplays when I was in fifth grade.

I've never been to the Olympics, so I don't know what to expect. It's better for me, just like my first Worlds... My third Worlds, I knew what it was like, so I was like, 'Oh my goodness. But this is my first Olympics, and not knowing what to expect is good for me.

I'm really trying to stop setting my plays in this one fictional town in Vermont.

I'm always a little apprehensive about 'decoding' fictional stories.

Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you’ve never been. Once you’ve visited other worlds, like those who ate fairy fruit, you can never be entirely content with the world that you grew up in. Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different.

I love when you get the feeling of some social reality with a fictional film.

Talking out loud to fictional characters is just the tip of the iceberg.

Hear and understand: the Flame is the source of all things, all things are its manifestation! Seek to be One with the Divine Sun! Hold your thought on uniting the Light with your human body. Light is the Source of all the life; for without the Great Light nothing can ever exist! Know, Light is the basis of all formed matter. Know, O man, that all space is filled by worlds within worlds.

I think architecture could be understood as the construction of realities, or the construction of worlds. One of the reasons why architects are often attracted to philosophers, partially, has to do with making sense of the world around us as well as the making of worlds, and in our case, the realities we create can be as real as concrete. These kinds of ideas, of wild imagination, go into the question of how you make a world.

The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating.

I have realised just how important it is to readers to feel that fictional stories are based on reality.

You can have a very intense relationship with fictional characters because they are in your own head.

Of course, the downside of attending a fictional school is that our lacrosse team sucks.

Once you create a believable fictional universe, you suck the audiences into that world and they tag along for the ride.

It might be the history major in me, but I look to the past when I try to construct my fictional futures.

It was a tricky part to play, because Herriot is both a fictional character and a real person.

The fictional work is a kind of actor that wears a satirical garb but can put on other costumes as well.

I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion.

The genealogy of fictional characters can become an obsession, like train-spotting, and should be firmly resisted.

The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist, and that those other worlds must contain experiences which have a meaning for our life also; and that although in the main their experiences and those of this world keep discrete, yet the two become continuous at certain points, and higher energies filter in.

In my older songs, I used to hide behind fictional characters to deflect attention away from myself.

The Formless Supreme Being abides in the Realm of Eternity. Over His creation He casts His glance of grace. In that Realm are contained all the continents and the universes, Exceeding in number all count. Of creation worlds upon worlds abide therein; All obedient to His will; He watches over them in bliss, And has each constantly in mind.

There are worlds and more worlds below them, and there are a hundred thousand skies over them. No one has been able to find the limits and boundaries of God. If there be any account of God, then alone the mortal can write the same; but God's account does not finish, and the mortal himself dies while still writing.

Life would be so much easier if fictional boys were real.

Hosting a game show is quite interactive and non-fictional shows are a part of entertainment.

I was 9 when I wrote 'Fate Stay with Me.' It was this fictional song about romance gone wrong.

Comics is all about making it believable and helping people to get completely lost in a fictional world.

I've got no business giving advice to anyone. Even a fictional character.

My grandparents all came from Lithuania to South Africa. My first novel, Middlepost, is a fictional account of that journey.

There are things you can say in the voice of a fictional character that you could not explore any other way.

This is fictional time, where events play out and possibilities are exhausted, so that meaning can emerge.

What a good novelist does with a throwaway that serves no fictional purpose is throw it away.

I am no longer going to become a fictional character to please people. That's too much work.

Television is full of fictional and real violence that's turned into entertainment.

Any fictional story will take things from real events.

I have always thought that the photographer does artistic work and that art consists of working with fictional premises.

I am not someone who throws around the word 'self-esteem.' It is a fictional description.

The underlying struggle - between worlds of plenty and worlds of want; between the modern and the ancient; between those who embrace our teeming, colliding, irksome diversity, while still insisting on a set of values that binds us together, and those who would seek, under whatever flag or slogan or sacred text, a certainty and simplification that justifies cruelty toward those not like us.