My own novel, 'The Silver Bough,' about the inhabitants of a remote town at risk of being overwhelmed by Scotland's mythological past,… — Lisa Tuttle Copy Share Image
“You’re a storyteller. Dream up something wild and improbable," she pleaded. "Something beautiful and full of monsters." “Beautiful and full of monsters?"… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“Objectivity is a subjective fantasy implanted in us by an external will seeking to curtail our creativity by limiting our minds to… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
People try to sell a fantasy with beauty campaigns. Overly Photoshopped, perfect, white, thin figures are a standard that most people still… — Barbie Ferreira Copy Share Image
“They sat and he drew her into him. Their lips met, sparking an internal firework display. His soft exquisite lips pressed gently… — Amanda Turner Copy Share Image
We need to get environmentalism out of the sphere of religion. We need to stop the mythic fantasies, and we need to… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
I have never indulged our society's misguided notion that my personal life is relevant to my work, so any reporting surrounding that… — Billy Crudup Copy Share Image
The final key to the way I promote is bravado. I play to people's fantasies. People may not always think big themselves,… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
It is only by enlarging the scope of one’s tastes and one’s fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that the unfortunate individual… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He'd taken the sword, slung on his back, sandwiches and clean underwear in his pack, and the world, more or less, at… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“While his body was left behind, his soul soared into the heavens. He did not pause at Celestia’s gates. No, that was… — A.J. Flowers Copy Share Image
“There’s nothing to be scared of, right Akhol?” He said nothing as he stepped toward the rushing water that rolled around a… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
We spent our honeymoon at a fabulous place called the Grapevine Canyon Ranch near Tucson, Arizona, and totally fell for the City… — Mary Nightingale Copy Share Image
“This isn’t going to be a cute little storybook you can close when you’re done. You open this and you’re going to… — Stacey Marie Brown Copy Share Image
“But of bliss and glad life there is little to be said, before it ends; as works fair and wonderful, while they… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by illusion, a point of pure truth, a… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I think what's happening is, it's all - fantasy, science fiction, ghosts, trolls, whatever - finally being called, being admitted to be… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The Olympics is an imperfect interregnum, the parade of nations a fantasy about a peace never won. It offers little relief from… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
Human beings are just way more complex than they'd like to be. They like to be simple machines. And they'll set up… — Nell Zink Copy Share Image
“You were always afraid of being caught while making love, and that fear never allowed you to completely surrender to any of… — Rebecca Harlem Copy Share Image
“I’m sure all of that’s true. Especially the anal bit--Marshall’s always been an ass--but I don’t see how this is relevant, unless… — Krista Alasti Copy Share Image
“I dropped my dress to the floor and sat on the sofa with renewed determination. This man was going to have sex… — Denise Grover Swank Copy Share Image
Imagination is a very precise thing, you know - it is not fantasy; the man who invented the wheel while he was… — Jacques Lipchitz Copy Share Image
Documentary is a little like horror movies, putting a face on fear and transforming threat into fantasy, into imagery. One can handle… — Martha Rosler Copy Share Image
“The thing about fantasy — there are certain things you just don’t do in fantasy. You don’t have sex near unicorns. It’s… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“Writing is my dream. From romance to dragons; fairies to fantasy worlds, this is where I live and play. Thanks be to… — Lisa Hannah Wells Copy Share Image
I haven't ever seen a period drama that has a fantasy element to it, that's set in London, that's as lavish as… — Oliver Jackson-Cohen Copy Share Image
Children tell themselves stories, engage in self-delusion and fantasy, but those narratives are more evolving than calcified - and with that malleability… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
“She couldn’t be a hero in the hero-tale sense. Not even in a fantasy? No. Because to me, fantasy isn’t wishful thinking,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Electric light is just another instrument. I have no desire to contrive fantasies mediumistically or sociologically over it or beyond it. — Dan Flavin Copy Share Image
You cannot do silhouettes in fantasy. Ah, no, you must be faithful. It is, the art, a, what you call, paradox. It… — Ugo Mochi Copy Share Image
I believe our techno-zealotry will be moderated by sheer circumstance. We will do what reality compels us to do, not necessarily what… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
I like to play people that are real, a real person, and then something that's interesting with that person. I think it's… — Devon Bostick Copy Share Image
“Gabriel: What’s the point of having power, if one cannot use it? What’s the point of immortality, if one cannot truly live?” — A.J. Flowers Copy Share Image
I'm a big believer in respecting the fans. How do I make a science-fiction or fantasy setting relatable? How do you make… — David Nutter Copy Share Image
What seems real to the mind can be as important as any material fact. We live by the spirit and the imagination… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
You cannot convince a Buddhist to become a Protestant any more than you can convince a person who embraces realism as the… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
When he feels the world is closing in, he turns his stereo way up high. He just spends his life, living in… — Ray Davies Copy Share Image
I'm living in Los Angeles, I'm in films and I'm on television, and I'm working with actors and telling stories. I'm living… — Nathan Fillion Copy Share Image
“If this is where you ask me to run around in my birthday suit, I’m not entirely comfortable with that,” I said,… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
