Fantasy Quotes - Page 7

• The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

  Andy Warhol

  Opposites, Two, Commercial Art

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.57, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and give a breath to forms which can outlive all flesh.

  Lord Byron

  People, Giving, Mind

  'The Dream' (1816) st. 1

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• There's a saying that all roads lead to Ankh-Morpork. And it's wrong. All roads lead away from Ankh-Morpork, but sometimes people just walk along them the wrong way.

  Terry Pratchett

  Funny, People, Ankh

  "The Compleat Ankh-Morpork". Book by Terry Pratchett, 2012.

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• Didn't they realize that the only way to change things was to act?

  Tamora Pierce

  Change, Novelists, Way

  Tamora Pierce (2009). “The Woman Who Rides Like a Man”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• Patience is a virtue, but there comes a moment when you must stop being patient and take the day by the throat and shake it. If it fights back; fine. I'd rather end up bloody at the end of the day, then unhurt with no progress made, no knowledge gained. I'd rather have a no, then nothing. I'd forgotten that about myself.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Patience, Knowledge, Fighting

  FaceBook post by Laurell K Hamilton from Jul 27, 2011

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• To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Real, History, World

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.324, Penguin

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• But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.

  Iris Murdoch

  Death, Art, Imagination

  Iris Murdoch (1990). “The Message to the Planet”, New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin Books

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• I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Family, Party, Book

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.32, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There isn't a way things should be. There's just what happens, and what we do.

  Terry Pratchett

  Way, Should, Happens

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• I always had a fantasy of being a chef, because I like kitchen life.

  Geoffrey Rush

  Kitchen, Chef

  "The Life and Death of Peter Sellers". Interview with James Ashwood, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Fashion, Design, Half

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• Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Artist, Imagination, Taste

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• Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Ambition, Men, Doe

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• People - not just in their teenage years - hold on to this fantasy of love when they're not ready to have a real relationship.

  Keri Russell

  Teenage, Real, Years

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?" Death thought about it. CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE.

  Terry Pratchett

  Life, Death, Nice

  Terry Pratchett (2017). “Terry Pratchett's Discworld Coloring Book”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• The only time a man can be brave is when he is afraid.

  George R. R. Martin

  Courage, Men, Brave

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five”, p.526, Bantam

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• The dream of reason produces monsters. Imagination deserted by reason creates impossible, useless thoughts. United with reason, imagination is the mother of all art and the source of all its beauty.

  Francisco Goya

  Mother, Dream, Art

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• The enemy isn’t men, or women, it’s bloody stupid people and no-one has the right to be stupid.

  Terry Pratchett

  Stupid, Men, People

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• The dream of reason produces monsters

  Francisco Goya

  Dream, Monsters, Reason

  Francisco Goya, Janis A. Tomlinson, Francisco Calvo Serraller, Museo del Prado (2002). “Goya: images of women”, Natl Gallery of Art

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• There have been many different artists that have been inspirational. I suppose the question is directed to what was the reason why I went into fantasy illustration.

  Boris Vallejo

  Artist, Illustration, Different

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• If I ever do anything, it actually might be some fantasy elf thing or even some cute, funny thing. Just to do something a little bit out of the ordinary. I've done my superhero gig.

  Todd McFarlane

  Cute, Artist, Funny Things

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• It is peoples' fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary. That that we were born and that we face eternal extinction after death is an extraordinary fantasy.

  Brian Perkins

  Extinction, Faces, Born

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• I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.

  Manuel Puig

  Long, Stories, Literature

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• Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Years, Diversity, Today

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• If the general opinion is pessimistic, fantasy is going to hold its own.

  David Eddings

  Pessimistic, Opinion, Ifs

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