Quotes by Screenwriters - Page 120

Lend me your wings, bird. I'll spread them and fly on the thermals.
Stephen King
Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible.
Rod Serling
What's a horse doing on a spaceship" "What's pre-revolutionary France doing on a spaceship? Mickey, get a little perspective!"Dr. Who "The Girl In The Fireplace
Stephen Moffat
The young man shivered. He rolled the stock themes of fantasy over in his mind: cars and stockbrokers and commuters, housewives and police, agony columns and commercials for soap, income tax and cheap restaurants, magazines and credit cards and streetlights and computers... 'It is escapism, true,' he said, aloud. 'But is not the highest impulse in mankind the urge toward freedom, the drive to escape?
Neil Gaiman
Up and down," Meera would sigh sometimes as they walked, "then down and up. Then up and down again. I hate these stupid mountains of yours, Prince Bran.""Yesterday you said you loved them.""Oh, I do. My lord father told me about mountains, but I never saw one till now. I love them more than I can say."Bran made a face at her. "But you just said you hated them.""Why can't it be both?" Meera reached up to pinch his nose."Because they're different," he insisted. "Like night and day, or ice and fire.""If ice can burn," said Jojen in his solemn voice, "then love and hate can mate. Mountain or marsh, it makes no matter. The land is one.""One," his sister agreed, "but over wrinkled.
George R.R. Martin
Bright star of Eanna, forgive me the manner of this, but you are the harbor of my soul’s journeying.
Guy Gavriel Kay
Into the air, over the valleys, under the stars, above a river, a pond, a road, flew Cecy. Invisible as new spring winds, fresh as the breath of clover rising from twilight fields, she flew.
Ray Bradbury
Beware the autumn people
Ray Bradbury
Jesus. Low-Key Lyesmith," said Shadow. and then he heard what he was saying and he understood. "Loki," he said. "Loki Lie-smith.""You're slow," said Loki, "but you get there in the end." And his lips twisted into a scarred smile and the embers danced in the shadows of his eyes.
Neil Gaiman
There are a number of paths that lead to this place. I have been avoiding them for some small time, now.
Neil Gaiman
The stuff you bring back from dreams is free.
Neil Gaiman
I'll tell you something. Once I was very fond of a poem by Emily Dickinson or somebody. I only remember one line of it, but it goes, 'The soul selects her own society.' I used to tell it to everybody. Once I quoted it to a friend of mine, and he said, 'Maybe, but the body gets thrown into bed with the goddamnedest people.
Peter S Beagle
As Hagrid had said, what would come would come and he would have to meet it when it did.
J.K. Rowling
The last unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone.
Peter S Beagle
Shivers heaved out a sigh. “Just trying to make tomorrow that bit better than today is all. I’m one of those … you’ve got a word for it, don’t you?”“Idiots?”He looked sideways at her. “It was a different one I had in mind.”“Optimists.”“That’s the one. I’m an optimist.”“How’s it working out for you?”“Not great, but I keep hoping.”“That’s optimists. You bastards never learn.
Joe Abercrombie
He was walking into Faerie, in search of a fallen star, with no idea how he would find the star, nor how to keep himself safe and whole as he tried. He looked back and fancied that he could see the lights of Wall behind him, wavering and glimmering as if in a heat-haze, but still inviting.
Neil Gaiman
The ability to "fantasize" is the ability to survive. It's wonderful to speak about this subject because there have been so many wrong-headed people dealing with it.... The so-called realists are trying to drive us insane, and I refuse to be driven insane.... We survive by fantasizing. Take that away from us and the whole damned human race goes down the drain.
Ray Bradbury
Oh, these people's minds work in strange ways, Petunia, they're not like you and me," said Uncle Vernon, trying to knock in a nail with the piece of fruitcake Aunt Petunia had just brought him.
J.K. Rowling
There was once a young man who wished to gain his Heart’s Desire.
Neil Gaiman
It all goes back and back," Tyrion thought, "to our mothers and fathers and theirs before them. We are puppets dancing on the strings of those who came before us, and one day our own children will take up our strings and dance in our steads.
George R.R. Martin
They can keep their heaven. When I die, I’d sooner go to Middle Earth.
George R.R. Martin
The heart beneath the breastbone pumping. The blood on its appointed rounds. Life in small places, narrow crannies. In the leaves, the toad's pulse. The delicate cellular warfare in a waterdrop. A dextrocardiac, said the smiling doctor. Your heart's in the right place. Weathershrunk and loveless. The skin drawn and split like an overripe fruit.
Cormac McCarthy
The soul, Daffy says, is not necessarily where the heart is.
Alan Bradley
The heart is greater than the universe, for it can find pity in it for everything in the universe, and the universe itself can feel no pity. The heart is greater than a King, because a heart can know a King for what he is, and still love him. And once you give your heart, you cannot take it back.
Neil Gaiman
Either I've always spoken to her from the heart in times like this, or I never have and I don't know what it means.
Ian McEwan
There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.
Nicholas Sparks
Absence makes the loins grow hotter.
Richard Castle
Maybe it was the heart which punished one with such exquisite accuracy.
Mark Haddon
(...) “to have a hairy heart” has passed into everyday wizarding language to describe a cold or unfeeling witch or wizard.
J.K. Rowling
A bad song for a night such as this, mayhap, but her heart went its own way without much interest in what her head thought or wanted; always had.
Stephen King
She is off the heart's map and her compass is spinning.
Mark Haddon
Sometimes your heart can lead you to a dead end.
Chetan Bhagat
When you let it get personal, the cost becomes personal too. You’re opening your own heart here. You sure you want to do that?
Michael Marshall Smith
Her eyes reversed into herself, to watch the secret heart of herself pounding itself into pieces against the side of her chest.
Ray Bradbury
That's the problem with getting your heart wrapped up in things. The dumbest stuff starts to carry way too much significance. You think about things way too much. You imagine a hole being filled that rarely bothered you at all when it was empty.
Kara Lee Corthron
The sick constriction of the heart was undeniable; there was a melancholy truth in the fact that it was suffering which made me, I thought, at last real to myself.
Alfred Hayes
Mister Sun wondered if he really believed it was true that the heart is just a pump.
Warren Ellis
Storytellers are the most powerful people on earth. They might not be the best paid-- but they are the most powerful. Storytellers have the power to move the human heart-- and there is no greater power on earth.
Laurie H. Hutzler
I had killed our careful relationship by driving my tongue through its heart and pushing it off a cliff.
Jeff Lindsay
I have seen your heart, and it is mine.
J.K. Rowling
Dearest Cecilia, You’d be forgiven for thinking me mad, the way I acted this afternoon. The truth is I feel rather light headed and foolish in your presence, Cee, and I don’t think I can blame the heat.
Ian McEwan
If only my heart were stone.
Cormac McCarthy
Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.
Neil Gaiman
The real answer is always found not in the heart but in the bank.
Richard Castle
Truth is like poetry.And most people fucking hate poetry.
Adam McKay
There's plenty of money out there. They print more every day. But this ticket, there's only five of them in the whole world, and that's all there's ever going to be. Only a dummy would give this up for something as common money. Are you a dummy?
Roald Dahl
I want you to understand that the difference between being a sugar baby versus being a prostitute is the connection. Although sometimes “sugar dating” is just a code for escorting, those people are just not doing it right. To really sugar date correctly, you have to feel something for the man who takes care of you, and he has to feel something for you.
Teresa Lo
Max would conclude, "that's who I want to be. The pope. And I'll do the same thing he does. I'll keep all the goddamn money.
Richard Russo
Being a copper I like to see the law win. I'd like to see the flashy well-dressed mugs like Eddie Mars spoiling their manicures in the rock quarry at Folsom, alongside of the poor little slum-bred guys that got knocked over on their first caper amd never had a break since. That's what I'd like. You and me both lived too long to think I'm likely to see it happen. Not in this town, not in any town half this size, in any part of this wide, green and beautiful U.S.A. We just don't run our country that way.
Raymond Chandler
A man who loves money is a bastard, someone to be hated. A man who can't take care of it is a fool. You don't hate him, but you got to pity him.
Stephen King
I sighed. ‘It doesn’t matter what we do. Money comes and goes.’ I shook my head. ‘It doesn’t matter and you know it doesn’t.
Patrick deWitt
Money to me had always been merely something the sheep used to show each other how wonderful they were.
Jeff Lindsay
I can't picture in my mind three hundred and sixty thousand dollars... When I think of it, all I can see in my mind is a big nickel.
Harlan Ellison
Well, I guess in all honesty I would have to say that I never knew nor did I ever hear of anybody that money didnt change.
Cormac McCarthy
You're broke, eh?"I been shaking two nickels together for a month, trying to get them to mate.
Raymond Chandler
I don't care if your dad is the Sultan of Brunei. You happened to be born into a privileged family. What you do with that truth is completely up to you. I'm here because I want to be with you. But if I didn't, all the money in the world wouldn't have changed my feelings for you.
Nicholas Sparks
Clive was losing sensation in his feet, and as he stamped them the rhythm gave him back the ten note falling figure, ritardando, a cor anglais, and rising softly against it, contrapuntally, cellos in mirror image. Her face in it. The end.
Ian McEwan
We stopped and listened. Just on the cusp of hearing I detected a rhythmic pounding, more a vibration in the concrete than a sound.'Drums,' I said and then because I couldn't resist it. 'Drums in the deep.''Drum and Bass in the deep,' said Kumar.
Ben Aaronovitch
Over-familiar, the music has become a kind of audio-Valium, background music rather than something I listen to actively and attentively. A gin and tonic after a long day. A shame, I think, because while each note remains the same, I used to hear them differently. It used to sound better.
David Nicholls
I sing about life. I am happy, but life is sad.
Larry McMurtry