Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samantha Barks

I grew up on a tiny little island.

Sadako Ogata

I once said that it was unacceptable for Japan to remain "an isolated prosperous island." At one time, it might have been all right for Japan to avoid sending any citizens to dangerous areas [even as part of international efforts] and just wish for its own people's happiness. That time is gone.

Jon M. Chu

I don't feel like I need to be on an island to be enjoying myself and relaxing.

Napoleon Hill

Burn the boats as you enter the island and you will take the island.

Orhan Pamuk

I identify with my culture, but I am happy to be living on a tolerant, intellectual island where I can deal with Dostoyevsky and Sartre, both great influences for me.

Jeff Greene

When you're on a boat, you're going to little islands and stuff. It's not a partying kind of thing.

Nellie Bly

But here let me say one thing: From the moment I entered the insane ward on the Island, I made no attempt to keep up the assumed role of insanity.

Nellie Bly

The insane asylum on Blackwell’s Island is a human rat-trap. It is easy to get in, but once there it is impossible to get out.

Matthew Fox

I enjoy a four-seasonal climate and wide-open spaces, so being on an island 2,500 miles into the South Pacific made me feel a little claustrophobic.

Frederik Pohl

There is a method which distinguishes SF from fantasy, though a lot of the science fiction written does not go by that method, and some fantasy does.

Richard O'Brien

I absolutely adore working in the realms of fantasy.

Sarah Zettel

The Lord of the Rings movie set an entirely new standard for fantasy in the movies.

Gurdjieff Gurdjieff

Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he ''lives'' his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.

Cassandra Clare

The more that you travel the more you get the sense of the word as a larger place and the more you get a sense of the variety of history and mythology. And when you know about these things you can incorporate them into what I feel is a more rich and more large tapestry of fantasy.

Molly Quinn

I love, love, love fantasy, like Lord of the Rings and things like that.

Terry Pratchett

You have so many sources to draw on when you're a fantasy writer.

Lionel Trilling

The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.

Jonathan Carroll

Ive never seen myself as a fantasy writer-ever.