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.

Agnes Martin

I paint with my back to the world

Agnes Repplier

There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.

Agnes Repplier

There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania...

Aaron Tveit

In an ideal world for me, I would like to go back and forth [between film and theater]. I kind of want to do it all

Charlotte Bronte

Old maids like the houseless and unemployed poor, should not ask for a place and an occupation in the world: the demand disturbs the happy and the rich.

Charlotte Bronte

You have rather the look of another world. I marvelled where you had got that sort of face.

Charlie Haden

You have to see your unimportance before you can see your importance and your significance to the world.

Charlie Daniels

I wouldn't trade places with anybody in the world. I love what I do.

Charlie Chaplin

That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.

Camille Paglia

How many modern transsexuals are unacknowledged shamans? Perhaps it is to poets they should go for counsel, rather than surgeons.

Dan Stevens

I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.

Barry Commoner

The modern technologist is less 'sorcerer' and more 'sorcerer's apprentice'.

Aubrey McClendon

Modern life would not be possible if it were not for chemicals, nor would modern natural gas production.

Mike Dargani

We wanted to do modern Japanese. We wanted to tweak things, to play with ingredients.

Kurt Vonnegut

It is a sobering thought that Gomer Pyle and the Beverly Hillbillies may be among our chief interstellar emissaries.

Emile Cioran

To be modern is to tinker with the incurable.

Robert Morgan

The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.

Fred Greenstein

When a presidency has been turned around, particularly the modern presidency, there's often an outside element.