Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henri Bergson

Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Rene Char wrote somewhere, apropos poetry, that there are those who create and those who discover; they are too completely different worlds. Photograph also has two sides to it and thank goodness, I am only intersted in those who discover; I feel a certain solidarity with those who set out in a spirit of discovery; I think there is much more risk invovled in this than in trying to create images; and in the end, reality is more important.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Everyone has got some preconceptions, but you have to readjust them in front of reality. Reality has the last word.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

I'm always amused by the idea that certain people have about technique, which translate into an immoderate taste for the sharpness of the image. It is a passion for detail, for perfection, or do they hope to get closer to reality with this trompe I'oeil? They are, by the way, as far away from the real issues as other generations of photographers were when they obscured their subject in soft-focus effects.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Great men are the real men, in them nature has succeeded.

Henri Frederic Amiel

The ideal, after all, is true than the real: for the ideal is the eternal element in perishable things.

Helen Keller

Silver is purified in fire and so are we. It is in the most trying times that our real character is shaped and revealed.

Helen Keller

Reality even when it is sad is better than illusions. Illusions are at the mercy of any winds that blow. Real happiness must come from within, from a fixed purpose and faith in one's fellow men.

Caterina Fake

Inspiration is really all around us. I pay attention to a lot of different fields. I stay up on current events. I go to community meetings to see what concerns the people in my neighborhood. Paying attention to social interactions offline really inform interactions online. The real world is a bottomless source of inspiration for what you can build.

Catharine MacKinnon

The unnamed should not be mistaken for the nonexistent.

Cat Stevens

It's very difficult to ignore humanitarian disasters. The royalties from my albums continue to support my charity work.

Cat Stevens

Rather than go to a demonstration to burn an effigy of the author Salman Rushdie, I would have hoped that it'd be the real thing.

Cat Stevens

A flight from London carrying the artist we all used to know as Cat Stevens, now known as Yusuf Islam, was forced to make an emergency landing in Bangor, Maine after his name showed up on a terrorist no-fly list. I tell you, it's a real success story in the war on terror. You know, we finally got the guy that wrote "Peace Train.

Cate Blanchett

A film is not a documentary. And what's wonderful about film is that it's a real provocation for people. I never, ever see film as being an absolute version of the truth.

Cate Blanchett

Theater is a space where you cross over from everyday life, because there are real people in that moment moving in front of you-you're being invited to believe in a story and cross that bridge.

Cassandra Clare

The thing that you are too young to understand is that we all hide things. We hide them from our lovers because we wish to present our best selves, but also because if it is real love, we expect our loved one to simply understand it, without needing to ask. In a true partnership, the kind that lasts through the ages, there is an unspoken communion.

Cassandra Clare

No real lady would let a dress that might have been worn by a stranger touch her skin.

Cassandra Clare

They belonged to each other totally, and always would, and that was that. But maybe everyone felt that way? Until the moment they realized they were just like everyone else, and everything they'd thought was real shattered apart.

Cassandra Clare

There was no Jace Wayland more real than the one he saw in her eyes when she looked at him.

Cassandra Clare

Goodness, real goodness, has it's own sort of cruelty to it.

Cassandra Clare

It didn’t matter, anyway. There was only one thing she could ask for, in the end, only one real choice. She raised her eyes to the Angel’s. "Jace," she said.

Cassandra Clare

what did wards matter when you could create your own reality just by drawing it?

George Eliot

I'd sooner have one real grief on my mind than twenty false. It's better to know one's robbed than to think one's going to be murdered.

Donald Rumsfeld

does not reflect the strategic realities of today.

It's a business. I realized that after being through it for a year and a half. You don't get down. You never know when you can go to another team and be on their 53 (man roster).

Joey Harrington

It's just one game. We all realize that.

David Eckstein

It's just a whole different realm of a leadoff man. You've got to be patient.

Bob Denver

It was the mid-'70s when I realized it wasn't going off the air,

Christine Gregoire

It's completely within the realm of possibility that what they need is hospitalization,

Chris Miller

It's a mess. I didn't realize it was this bad.

It just wasn't my time, and that's something you realize when you are out here a lot of years,

Chris Paul

It just seemed like we were scoring and they were scoring, we were scoring and they were scoring. And it can't be like that. We realize that we can score at times at will, but at the same time they were scoring every time.