Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oliver Stone

You don't always have to have an e-book. You can have a real book. I'd like to see the old way maintain.

Oliver Stone

Money itself isn't lost or made, it's simply transferred from one perception to another. This painting here. I bought it 10 years ago for 60 thousand dollars. I could sell it today for 600. The illusion has become real and the more real it becomes, the more desperately they want it.

Oliver Stone

I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience.

Oliver Sacks

If we wish to know about a man, we ask 'what is his story--his real, inmost story?'--for each of us is a biography, a story. Each of us is a singular narrative, which is constructed, continually, unconsciously, by, through, and in us--through our perceptions, our feelings, our thoughts, our actions; and, not least, our discourse, our spoken narrations. Biologically, physiologically, we are not so different from each other; historically, as narratives--we are each of us unique.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are to keep to the real and the true.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The joy of life is to put out one's power in some natural and useful or harmless way. There is no other. And the real misery is not to do this.

Olafur Eliasson

I see the artist as a participant, a co-producer of reality.

Olafur Eliasson

I always try to make work that activates the viewer to be a co-producer of our shared reality.

Olga Korbut

I am a great realist in all aspects of life. Whatever I can do ... here it is.

Olga Kurylenko

With modelling, you provide an image that is fake; with acting you have to provide an image that's real.

Olive Schreiner

There are only two things that are absolute realities, love and knowledge, and you can't escape them.

Octave Mirbeau

While I was an honorable man in her eyes, she did not love me. But the minute she understood what I was, when she breathed the true and foul odor of my soul, love was born in her – for she does love me! Well, well! There is nothing real, then, except evil.

Octavian Paler

The others wolves would devour me if they could know that my roar is, in reality, a crying.

Octavia Spencer

I prefer doing interviews where people don't have to interpret what you say. I'm going to be real honest.

Octavia Spencer

I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist. And my reality is that we live in a multifaceted, multicultural world. And maybe once we stop labeling ourselves, then maybe everyone else will.

O. Henry

Yes, I get dry spells. Sometimes I can't turn out a thing for three months. When one of those spells comes on I quit trying to work and go out and see something of life. You can't write a story that's got any life in it by sitting at a writing table and thinking. You've got to get out into the streets, into the crowds, talk with people, and feel the rush and throb of real life-that's the stimulant for a story writer.

Octavio Paz

We pursue her in her incessant metamorphoses yet we never manage to trap her. She always escapes: each encounter ends in flight. We embrace her and she disappears immediately: it was just a little air. It is the instant, that bird that is everywhere and nowhere. We want to trap it alive but it flaps its wings and vanishes in the form of a handful of syllables. We are left empty-handed. Then the doors of perception open slightly and the other time appears, the real one we were searching for without knowing it: the present, the presence.

Octavio Paz

Cubism had been an analysis of the object and an attempt to put it before us in its totality; both as analysis and as synthesis, it was a criticism of appearance. Surrealism transmuted the object, and suddenly a canvas became an apparition: a new figuration, a real transfiguration.

Octavio Paz

It is always difficult to give oneself up; few persons anywhere ever succeed in doing so, and even fewer transcend the possessive stage to know love for what it actually is: a perpetual discovery, and immersion in the waters of reality, an unending re-creation.

Octavio Paz

It may seem paradoxical to say that we have been expelled from the present, but it is a feeling we have all had at some moment. Some of us experienced it first as a condemnation, later transformed into consciousness and action. The search for the present is neither the pursuit of an earthly paradise nor that of a timeless eternity: it is the search for a real reality.

Norton Juster

Perhaps someday you can have one city as easy to see as Illusions and as hard to forget as Reality.

Norton Juster

How can you see something that isn't there?" yawned the Humbug, who wasn't fully awake yet. "Sometimes, it's much simpler than seeing things that are,"he said. "For instance, if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones." "Then where is Reality?" barked Tock. "Right here,"cried Alec, waving his arms.

Emile Hirsch

Happiness is not real unless shared.

Emile M. Cioran

After having struggled madly to solve all problems, after having suffered on the heights of despair, in the supreme hour of revelation, you will find that the only answer, the only reality, is silence.

Emile M. Cioran

Reality is a creation of our excesses.

Emile M. Cioran

What can be said, lacks reality. Only what fails to make its way into words exists and counts.

Emile M. Cioran

How important can it be that I suffer and think? My presence in this world will disturb a few tranquil lives and will unsettle the unconscious and pleasant naiveté of others. Although I feel that my tragedy is the greatest in history—greater than the fall of empires—I am nevertheless aware of my total insignificance. I am absolutely persuaded that I am nothing in this universe; yet I feel that mine is the only real existence.

Ellen Muth

Things that go on at Happy Times are very funny this year, and if you were watching last year, some of the people you saw then as basically extras emerge as real characters in their own right this season, at least to some degree.

Ellen Key

Conventionality is the tacit agreement to set appearances before reality, form before content ...

Ellen Goodman

instant opinion is an oxymoron. You don't get real opinions in an instant. You get reactions.

Ellen Glasgow

To seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.

Ellen Glasgow

... the life of the mind is reality, and love without romantic illumination is a spiritless matter.