Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ian Somerhalder

We all exist in a time of widespread exponential growth. We are busier than ever. When things pile sky-high on top of each other, I try to take a moment to: breathe, smile, repeat. This mantra helps me align to the reality outside of the superfluous noise.

Ian Bremmer

The real question is not are there other forms of life in the universe, but are there other intelligent forms of life out there right now. Because the universe is not only really big but it's also really long. It's been around for a long time; it's going to be around for a long time.

Ian Bogost

We're stuck in these situations with other people and our stuff and our jobs, and thinking that we can extract ourselves from those seems doomed to me. Instead, how can we live within those systems of constraints? We don't have to enjoy them, exactly, but at least acknowledge that those boundaries are real and that they structure our response to the world. And then once you do that, you allow yourself to say "I did my best given the circumstances."

Iain Dowie

There are some real positives for Wales. Their back four's not bad, sometimes.

Iain Banks

The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't.

Iain Banks

Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.

Hugo Ball

What is generally termed reality is, to be precise, a frothy nothing.

Hugo Ball

The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise?

Hugh Masekela

In my view, Africa's real problems are cultural.

Hugh Masekela

The Afro-American experience is the only real culture that America has. Basically, every American tries to walk, talk, dress and behave like African Americans.

Hugh Dancy

In reality, for me every role is completely different.

Huey Newton

We [Panthers] have not said much about the homosexual at all, but we must relate to the homosexual movement because it is a real thing. And I know through reading, and through my life experience and observations that homosexuals are not given freedom and liberty by anyone in the society. They might be the most oppressed people in the society.

Huey Newton

Too many so-called leaders of the movement have been made into celebrities and their revolutionary fervor destroyed by mass media. They become Hollywood objects and lose identification with the real issues. The task is to transform society; only the people can do that

Howell Raines

Fish in the water represent pure potential. If the water is not clear, we do not know if they exist at all. To get them to bite something connected to a line and pull them into our world is managing a birth that brings these creatures from the realm of mysytery into the world of reality. It is a kind of creation.

Howie Carr

Has there ever been anybody, real or fictional, whiter than Betty Crocker?

Howard Zinn

The term anarchism has become associated with two phenomena with which real anarchist don't want to associate themselves with. One is violence, and the other is disorder or chaos. The popular conception of anarchism is on the one hand bomb-throwing and terrorism, and on the other hand no rules, no regulations, no discipline, everybody does what they want, confusion, etc. That is why there is a reluctance to use the term anarchism.

Howard Zinn

Education becomes most rich and alive when it confronts the reality of moral conflict in the world.

Howard Zinn

But by this time I was acutely conscious of the gap between law and justice. I knew that the letter of the law was not as important as who held the power in any real-life situation.

Howard Zinn

Behind the deceptive words designed to entice people into supporting violence -- words like democracy, freedom, self-defense, national security -- there is the reality of enormous wealth in the hands of a few, while billions of people in the world are hungry, sick, homeless.

Howard Gordon

In some ways, a novel isn't as structurally rigorous as a screenplay or a TV show, which have finite real estate. In a novel, you can more deeply illuminate a character's interior and get away with digressions.

Liev Schreiber

I can sense that there's something that I need to decompress from, but I just don't have the time right now. I think the trick is not to look back. If I stop and realize what I've been through, I think I would probably faint.

Hugh Jackman

The physical reality is assumed to be the wave function of the whole universe itself.

Horace Walpole

Perhaps those, who, trembling most, maintain a dignity in their fate, are the bravest: resolution on reflection is real courage.

Horace Mann

If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable.

Homer

You know, the one with all the well meaning rules that don't work out in real life, uh, Christianity.

Homer

Hunger is insolent, and will be fed.

Javier Bardem

And the whole Oscar thing, that is just surreal: you spend months and months doing promotion, and then come back to reality with this golden thing in your hands. You put it in the office and then you just have to look at it sitting on the shelf. And, after about two weeks, you go: 'What is that doing there?'

Javier Bardem

Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time.

Jay Asher

I wanted people to trust me, despite anything they'd heard. And more than that, I wanted them to know me. Not the stuff they thought they knew about me. No, the real me. I wanted them to get past the rumors. To see beyond the relationships I once had, or maybe still had but that they didn't agree with.

Jay Asher

I hate not knowing what to believe anymore. I hate not knowing what's real.

Jawaharlal Nehru

A theory must be tempered with reality.

Garth Stein

Inside each of us resides the truth, I began, the absolute truth. But sometimes the truth is hidden in a hall of mirrors. Sometimes we believe we are viewing the real thing, when in fact we are viewing a facsimile, a distortion.

Garth Brooks

Life is like therapy - real expensive and no guarantees.