“She had learned to pay attention to the variations in Rokan's smiles. There was the sideways half-smile when he found something amusing;… — Leah Cypess Copy Share Image
“God, why do I bother trying to help you? It’s not like you appreciate it. It’s not like the word ‘thanks’ is… — Krista Alasti Copy Share Image
Disrespect also can take the form of idealizing you and putting you on a pedestal as a perfect woman or goddess, perhaps… — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
[T]he next time you hear serious-sounding people explaining the need for fiscal austerity, try to parse their argument. Almost surely, you'll discover… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
“One’s options in this world are as vast as the horizon, which is technically a circle and thus infinitely broad. Yet we… — Lori R. Lopez Copy Share Image
“I saw it in his eyes, first—the beginning of the end, the beginning of things to come. The blackest night, they cut… — Rachael Wade Copy Share Image
“So often, we believe we are alone in the privacy of our fantasies, but that is a delusion as well - and… — Tiffany Baker Copy Share Image
“A Skalan trader tried to tell me the streets of his cities were paved with gold," Alec went on. "I didn't believe… — Lynn Flewelling Copy Share Image
Sam Harris fearlessly describes a moral and intellectual emergency precipitated by religious fantasies--misguided beliefs that create suffering, that rationalize violence, that have… — Janna Levin Copy Share Image
“These are Plenimaran marines, and there's not much most of them aren't capable of, if you take my meaning." "I don't think… — Lynn Flewelling Copy Share Image
“A steampunk nation Baby pollution rises up then the loving comes arraigning 'cause Our art's official and only partially artificial And our… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Fantasy is, at its best, the purest access to storytelling that we have. It universalizes a tale, it evokes wonder and timeless… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
'Shadow and Bone' was my first book, and I think I was unconsciously echoing a lot of the fantasy that I had… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
The [palette] fantasy is always to get what you want, what you wear, and to be able to take it with you,… — Gwen Stefani Copy Share Image
The buildings that I build very often have a dreamlike reality. I don't mean by that they have a fantasy quality at… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
“Vengeance ought to be spoken through gritted teeth, spittle flying, the cords of one's soul so entangled in it that you can't… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
I was lucky enough to be able to do comedies, dramas, completely different parts. At the beginning, when you start you have… — Carole Bouquet Copy Share Image
The rationalism of the creative minds was tempered by abundant fantasies, and the supreme beauty of the monuments was probably spoiled by… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
“Alderic, Knight of the Order of the City and the Assault, hereditary Guardian of the King's Peace of Mind, a man not… — Lord Dunsany Copy Share Image
“Underwater, bubbles erupted before my eyes as a swift hand snatched my arm and pulled me to the surface. I gasped for… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
Time may enhance what seems simply dogged or lacking in fantasy now because we are too close to it, because it resembles… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“A face stared up at her from the mirror beside her hand. Was that really what she looked like? Was that really… — P.C. Hodgell Copy Share Image
When we come back to fantasy, I think we're actually coming back to the real bedrock of storytelling. Our national or international… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
Imagine wasting all that perfectly good anger on paranoid fantasies. Not since Emily Litella got upset about "Soviet jewelry" has there been… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
“Life can lure us into this fantasy. A fantasy of fear. We look around and begin to fear we aren’t good enough… — Sanya Richards-Ross Copy Share Image
“There is no limit as to what we can learn. Through study, we can learn from the past. Experience can empower us… — Jaime Buckley Copy Share Image
“She stared at the phone, feeling guilty. She finally slid across the overstuffed Pleather couch and away from watching old episodes of… — Joe DeRouen Copy Share Image
Science fiction is a weird category, because it's the only area of fiction I can think of where the story is not… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
“The rain landed on my skin with a barely audible patter and changed the tempo of its repetitive dance, letting the wind… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
“When we let go of our battles and open our heart to things as they are, then we come to rest in… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
“Approaching the trail, he broke through the thicket a short distance ahead of the Empath. Causing the Empaths horse to startle as… — Alaina Stanford Copy Share Image
The castle-building habit, the day-dreaming habit - how it grows! what a luxury it becomes; how we fly to its enchantments at… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“...Opal is dead, and I don't see how a healer can change that! It's not something to joke about." Joke?" Then Owen… — Flavia Bujor Copy Share Image
From about ninth grade on, I knew I was a writer at heart. I had fantasies of being a great novelist, but… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
“The asylum, and later the national health service, warehoused thousands of patients made mad by the intrusions of a sexual predator. But… — Beatrix Campbell Copy Share Image
Nothing goes on forever. I think that's one of the illusions of life. When I talk about my life being an extension… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
Tear away fantasy football's fraternal facade and you discover it's built on megalomaniacal anarchy. Its subliminal message: Forget the team you've always… — Skip Bayless Copy Share Image
“The problem with the so-called bloody surveillance state is that it’s hard work trying to track someone’s movements using CCTV – especially… — Ben Aaronovitch Copy Share Image
Certainly, those of us in the entertainment industry, we are part of creating fear in people - 'fear' for me stands for… — Hill Harper Copy Share Image
What I wanted to get at is the value difference between pornographic playing-cards when you're a kid, and pornographic playing-cards when you're… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
![“[T]he next time you hear serious-sounding people explaining the need for fiscal austerity, try to parse their argument. Almost surely, you'll discover that what sounds like hardheaded realism actually rests on a foundation of fantasy, on the belief that invisible vigilantes will punish us if we're…” quote by Paul Krugman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2a3/paul-krugman-2255_argument_t-he-next-time-you-hear-serious-sounding_2152800.jpg)
![“The [palette] fantasy is always to get what you want, what you wear, and to be able to take it with you, so you don't have to bring all the other stuff. I just started digging through my drawers of my favorites, and I asked myself what is it that I cant live without?” quote by Gwen Stefani](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1fc/gwen-stefani-2450_able_the-palette-fantasy-is-always-to-get-wha_2489376.jpg)
