The mind spends most of the time lost in fantasies and illusions, reliving pleasant or unpleasant experiences and anticipating the future with… — S. N. Goenka Copy Share Image
When a painter thinks to disengage from the world outside himself and fantasies unprecedented forms he thinks he will make a painting,… — Pierre Alechinsky Copy Share Image
“Allegedly, allegedly I say, the R.G.A. were extremely miffed of portrait painted of their monarch, King Tingaling XX, by Master. Portrait apparently,… — Elias Zapple Copy Share Image
“When I was small, I never wanted to step in puddles. Not because of any fear of drowned worms or wet stockings;… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
I was also a science fiction and fantasy fan, growing up, in games and books and movies. I love Tolkien and I… — Duncan Jones Copy Share Image
“Later, he would ask later who Attila was. Now he only wanted Belial's kiss. His heat. His passion. A quick gallop. Frenzied… — Ciaran Dwynvil Copy Share Image
A lot of fantasy names are too much. They’re too difficult to pronounce. I wanted the flavour of medieval England. I took… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Can’t you imagine? Haven’t you told her about the place enough?” He tried the handle again, as if that could change anything.… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
“Some readers will say that animals awaken fantasy, if not heresy, in those who attach moral significance to them. Yet often I… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
You live with a writer [a mother], and you grow up with their words, their kind of fantasies, and I'd pretty much… — Keira Knightley Copy Share Image
“There was an image in my mind—an expectation of what it would be like when I finally gave myself fully to a… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
Stop doing things that waste time. Don't replace time with your family or things that you need to do. I needed to… — Gary Vaynerchuk Copy Share Image
I gather together the dreams, fantasies, experiences that preoccupied me as a girl, that stay with me and appear and reappear in… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“Science fiction long assimilated the notion that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic (much to its benefit), while fantasy long… — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
“You can't mean to dance with the lass; she's great with child!" Killian smiled broadly at this. "Aye, well, I do indeed… — Leigh Ann Edwards Copy Share Image
When people talk about imagination, they tend to think of fantasy or something made-up. But really imagination is a mode of perception.… — Janaka Stucky Copy Share Image
“THE BASTARD STEPCHILD There’s a new kid on the shelves in bookstores these days. Most often he can be found back in… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
The great arises out of small things that are honored and cared for. Everybody's life really consists of small things. Greatness is… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
A human life is defined by its relationship with others: by its duty to its species. In the face of this duty,… — Matthew Woodring Stover Copy Share Image
We called the head of CBS and said, 'We know how network television feels about musicals. Would you even consider doing 'Gypsy?''… — Craig Zadan Copy Share Image
“The room was two-tiered, its marble balconies filled with rams and water nymphs in fancy dress; a kaleidoscope of colours swayed in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“IT IS SAID that time is unrelated to everything else. It goes on and on, unnoticing of our actions, our falls, our… — Alexia Purdy Copy Share Image
When you're used to getting just a piece of bread for a meal, you don't realize that you can ask for a… — Barbara De Angelis Copy Share Image
My wife, Lisa, and I both grew up on wuxia - Chinese historical romances. They're kind of analogous to Western epics. They're… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
“Three Pines wasn’t on any tourist map, being too far off any main or even secondary road. Like Narnia, it was generally… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
I think we love the fantasy of being the one person who can really touch the person who has been untouchable for… — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
The individual is denuded of everything but appetites, desires, and tastes, wrenched from any context of human obligation or commitment. It is… — Jeremy Seabrook Copy Share Image
City of prose and fantasy, of capitalist automation, its streets a triumph of cubism, its moral philosophy that of the dollar. New… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
What I'm working on now - I'm back to fantasy, although considering that it's me, I'm turning it into a kind of… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
It can be a way of knowledge, a path, an inspiration, a Tao, an ordering, a memory, a fantasy, a seduction, a… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
“Look,' Mercator told her. 'You can talk to a person. You can reason with an individual. Usually. But people , that's another… — Michael J. Sullivan Copy Share Image
Much of the way books get classified has to do with marketing decisions. I think it's more useful to think of literary… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever… — Gary Gygax Copy Share Image
The more you are possession oriented, the less happy you will be. The less happy you are, the farther away from the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“As a man branded by society as a cruel and heartless prince himself, Kit saw so much of himself in Esme. Even… — Kristina Stangl Copy Share Image
Everybody I knew who was really ambitious and kind of annoying wanted to move to New York. I like it here but… — Urs Fischer Copy Share Image
We don't live for realities, but for the fantasies, the dreams of what might be. If we lived for reality, we'd be… — Michael Shurtleff Copy Share Image
The SF genre, of course, is really an organically evolved, marketplace-determined, idiosyncratic grab bag of themes and signifiers and characters and icons… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
I had a book that was given to me as a kid that was called 'Faeries.' It was this dark, sinister book… — Anna Silk Copy Share Image
He was the fantasy of every girl in the country. He was so far out of realm, her world, that she should… — Marissa Meyer Copy Share Image
![“You live with a writer [a mother], and you grow up with their words, their kind of fantasies, and I'd pretty much seen every single one of her plays, and been in a lot of rehearsal rooms, so it felt very natural and easy. It was lovely to get an opportunity to do that professionally as well.” quote by Keira Knightley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4f4/keira-knightley-3384_easy_you-live-with-a-writer-a-mother-and-you_359723.jpg)
