Famous Quotes & Sayings

Salvador Dali

Paranoiac-critical activity makes the world of delirium pass onto the plane of reality...

Salvador Dali

Someone like myself, who claimed to be a real madman, living and organized with a Pythagorean precision ...

Salvador Dali

And now the announcement of Watson and Crick about DNA. This is for me the real proof of the existence of God.

Salma Hayek

What works in a relationship of very public people is not making the relationship public - keeping it as personal as it can be. It's the only way it is real.

Salman Rushdie

The inevitable triumph of illusion over reality that was the single most obvious truth about the history of the human race.

Salman Rushdie

The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.

Salman Rushdie

What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.

Salman Rushdie

I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.

Salman Rushdie

Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.

Salman Rushdie

Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.

Salman Rushdie

That's the trouble with you sad-city types: a place has to be miserable and dull as ditchwater before you believe it's real.

Salman Rushdie

I don't feel American. I do feel like a New Yorker. I think there's a real distinction there. A city allows you to become a citizen even when you're not a national.

Salman Rushdie

In a novel, if you're any good, you don't just have good people or bad people. You have complicated people. You have real people.

Salman Rushdie

A relationship with an imaginary woman is preferable to a relationship with a real one.

Salman Rushdie

I beat my sons in real-life table tennis, but virtually, I get murdered. I download games on the iPhone that I'm addicted to - I'm a master at "Angry Birds."

Salman Rushdie

The real risks for any artist are taken in pushing the work to the limits of what is possible, in the attempt to increase the sum of what it is possible to think. Books become good when they go to this edge and risk falling over it -when they endanger the artist by reason of what he has, or has not, artistically dared.

Salman Rushdie

He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.

Salman Rushdie

When people use the term magic realism, usually they only mean 'magic' and they don't hear 'realism', whereas the way in which magic realism actually works is for the magic to be rooted in the real. It's both things. It's not just a fairytale moment. It's the surrealism that arises out of the real.

Salman Rushdie

Without water we are nothing", the traveler thought. "Even an emperor, denied water, would swiftly turn to dust. Water is the real monarch and we are all its slaves.

Salman Rushdie

Reality is a question of perspective;

Ryan Sheckler

I barely ever watch TV, but when I do, I usually only watch MTV shows, like 'The Real World Sydney.'

Ryan Seacrest

Without someone giving you a shot, opening a door, believing that your obsession is a real thing when you're young, you don't get the opportunity. Every single day I'm reminded of that.

Rudolf Steiner

The task of understanding is not to replicate in conceptual form something that already exists, but rather to create a wholly new realm, that together with the world given to our senses constitutes the fullness of reality.

Rudolf Steiner

When we feel an obligation to test the things we say and to find the boundaries within which what we say has validity, then we are contributing to a real inner consolidation of our human feeling for existence.

Rudolf Steiner

In diabetes mellitus the case is as follows: the ego-organization, as it submerges in the astral and etheric realm, is so weakened that it can no longer effectively accomplish its action upon the sugar-substance. The sugar then undergoes the processes in the astral and etheric realms which should take place in the ego-organization.... From all this we see that a real healing process for diabetes mellitus can only be initiated if we are in a position to strengthen the ego-organization of the patient.

Rudolf Steiner

All real philosophers have been artists in the realm of concepts.

Rudolf Steiner

Beauty is not the divine in a cloak of physical reality; no, it is physical reality in a cloak that is divine. The artist does not bring the divine on to the earth by letting it flow into the world; he raises the world into the sphere of the divine.

Rudolf Steiner

The basis of artistic creation is not what is, but what might be; not the real, but the possible. Artists create according to the same principles as nature, but they apply them to individual entities, while nature, to use a Goethean expression, thinks nothing of individual things. She is always building and destroying, because she wants to achieve perfection, not in the individual thing, but in the whole.

Wesley Snipes

In the beginning, all I wanted to do was to be a singer and a dancer. That was my real groove, my real interest. When it came to doing films, my biggest goal was to do a commercial.

Wendy Kopp

The limitations of federal laws are able to create real progress at the local level. Ultimately, to effect not just incremental progress but progress that is transformational for students, we need committed leadership - people who believe deeply that their students can achieve at the highest levels and who know how to create the conditions at the classroom, school and system level to give them the opportunities they deserve.

The press and the public like certainty and affirmation of popular biases. But real science thrives on the capacity for doubt.

Wang Jianlin

Investing in Chicago property is just Wandas first move into the U.S. real estate market.

Walton Goggins

When you get the call from Quentin Tarantino, it's the call of a lifetime. You don't allow yourself to be vulnerable enough or to be fool enough to expect that phone call to happen, in reality.