Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlos Fuentes

There are people whose external reality is generous because it is transparent, because you can read everything, accept everything, understand everything about them: people who carry their own sun with them.

Carlos Castaneda

I had been experiencing brief flashes of disassociation, or shallow states of non-ordinary reality.

Carlos Castaneda

The things shamans deal with are extremely practical. They break down parameters of normal historical reality. Magical passes are just one aspect of that.

Carlos Castaneda

The sorcerer's description of the world is perceivable. But our insistence on holding on to our standard version of reality renders us almost deaf and blind to it.

Carlos Castaneda

Nothing in this world is a gift. Whatever must be learned must be learned the hard way.

Carlos Castaneda

For a sorcerer, reality, or the world as we all know it, is only a description.

Carl Bernstein

Increasingly, the picture of our society as rendered in our media is illusionary and delusionary: disfigured, unreal, out of touch with reality, disconnected from the true context of our life. It is disfigured by celebrity, by celebrity worship, by gossip, by sensationalism, by denial of our societies

C. S. Lewis

Ye cannot know eternal reality by a definition. Time itself, and all the acts and events that fill time are the definition, and it must be lived.

C. S. Lewis

The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive.

Caitlin Moran

Life divides into amazing enjoyable times and appalling experiences that will make future amazing anecdotes.

Michael Moskow

I am starting to hear more anecdotes about softening in housing markets, and seeing more reports that home prices are growing at a slower rate,

Bea Arthur

I can't say it's autobiographical, but I do tell a number of anecdotes that I think are amusing.

Nicholas Kristof

One of our worst traits in journalism is that when we have a narrative in our minds, we often plug in anecdotes that confirm it. Thus we managed to portray President Gerald Ford, a first-rate athlete, as a klutz.

Douglas Coupland

In a faraway land called 'pre-2000,' what Earthlings now call blogging was called 'keeping a diary.' It's hard work to do well. I tried doing it in the early 1990s but had to stop because I no longer had a life - instead I had this thing that generated anecdotes to go into my diary. The diary took over and I had to stop.

Peter Milligan

With 'Hollow Circus,' I used a family story that haunted me as a kid, one of those anecdotes about a family member that would rarely be spoken of in front of the children.

Jane Birkin

It's usually a jolly good trick to pick up a local tour guide. They can tell you all the anecdotes that make a place interesting. I'm one for rushing off to museums at the crack of dawn, eating fabulous things on terraces for lunch, and enjoying long dinners on balmy evenings.

Chuck Palahniuk

I tell everyone I interact with what I'm working on and let them bring me anecdotes that illustrate my themes.

Matt Loesch

There are a million anecdotes that show that the College hasn't given students fair warning about work that is being done to their rooms. Students have said that several times there have been two knocks on their door and it opens without warning. Others have experienced workers peering into their windows.