Famous Quotes & Sayings

Laurence Gonzales

To deal with reality you must first recognize it as such.

Laurence Olivier

Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is, and not so much a matter of being real.

Lauren Willig

There's nothing so attractive as a blank slate. Take one attractive man, slap on a thick coat of daydream, and voila, the perfect man. With absolutely no resemblance to reality.

Lauren Oliver

That's when you realize that most of it-life, the relentless mechanism of existing-isn't about you. It doesn't include you at all. It will thrust onward even after you've jumped the edge. Even after you're dead.

Lauren Oliver

It's like high school holds two different worlds, revolving around each other an never touching; the haves and the have-nots. I guess it's a good thing. High school is supposed to prepare you for the real world, after all.

Lauren Oliver

That's the way I feel, at least: like there's a real me and a reflection of me, and I have no way of telling which is which.

Lauren Oliver

The mark of the procedure. A real one. Lu is cured.

Lauren Oliver

I put my forehead on his collarbone, place one hand on his chest. Its rhythm reassures me: He is real, and he is now.

Lauren Oliver

My heart is drumming in my chest so hard it aches, but it's the good kind of ache, like the feeling you get on the first real day of autumn, when the air is crisp and the leaves are all flaring at the edges and the wind smells just vaguely of smoke - like the end and the beginning of something all at once.

Larry Sanders

The values and the relationships of the people I love around me are my real riches. That's my lasting wealth.

Larry Sabato

The national media will talk about (national problems) because it's something that everyone in all 50 states can understand, but the reality is these are minor factors. These are local races. ... The issues tend to be less ideological than for Senate races or races for president. ... It's about potholes and streetlights.

Larry Wall

Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself.

Larry Wall

As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct.

Larry Wall

We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.

Larry Wall

Besides, REAL computers have a rename() system call.

Larry Wall

Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality...

Larry Wall

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.

Lake Bell

The reason I got into this business was for the privilege to exist in different genres and different worlds and play out different realities.

L. Frank Baum

As the years pass, and we look back on something which, at the time, seemed unbelievably discouraging and unfair, we come to realize that, after all, God was at all times on our side. The eventual outcome was, we discover, by far the best solution for us, and what we thought should have been to our best advantage, would in reality have been quite detrimental.

L. Neil Smith

Possibly worst of all, from the standpoint of the dedicated enemies of freedom, the Internet is a world that libertarians having been marginalized for three decades by the establishment media have made their own, almost without effort. It's an alternative reality (unlike 'meat-space' we live in) in which exactly like intelligence, bravery, or virtue the human capacity for violence is not additive, and in which it's impossible to initiate force against anybody.

L. Neil Smith

Human rights are an aspect of natural law, a consequence of the way the universe works, as solid and as real as photons or the concept of pi. The idea of self- ownership is the equivalent of Pythagoras' theorem, of evolution by natural selection, of general relativity, and of quantum theory. Before humankind discovered any of these, it suffered, to varying degrees, in misery and ignorance.

L. Neil Smith

A lot is said, by foreigners and the left, about America being a violent society. Yet if you subtract the crime statistics for its largest cities places that have been under the strict political control of so-called "progressives", sometimes for many generations what remains, the real America, is the most peaceful, productive, prosperous, and truly progressive civilization in all of human history.

P. J. O'Rourke

The real alternative to power of the rich is not power of the poor. It's just plain power.

P. J. O'Rourke

The government is huge, stupid, greedy and makes nosy, officious and dangerous intrusions into the smallest corners of life - this much we can stand. But the real problem is that government is boring. We could cure or mitigate the other ills Washington visits on us if we could only bring ourselves to pay attention to Washington itself. But we cannot.

Pablo Picasso

You have to start somewhere. You can always erase reality later on.

Pablo Picasso

Reality is to be found in lightness and darkness.

Pablo Picasso

If you can imagine it...it is real

Pablo Picasso

For me painting is a dramatic action in the course of which reality finds itself split apart

Pablo Picasso

An artist must be very careful not to look for models. As soon as one artist takes another as model, he is lost. There is no other point of departure than reality.

Pablo Picasso

Whatever is most abstract may perhaps be the summit of reality.

Pablo Picasso

To arrive at abstraction, it is always necessary to begin with a concrete reality.

Pablo Picasso

Do you think it interests me that this painting represents two figures? These two figures existed, they exist no more. The sight of them gave me an initial emotion, little by little their real presence grew indistinct. They became a fiction for me, then they disappeared, or rather, were turned into problems of all kinds. For me they are no longer two figures but shapes and colours. Don't misunderstand me: shapes and colours, though, that sum up the idea of the two figures and preserve the vibration of their existence.

Pablo Picasso

If everybody is looking for it, then nobody is finding it. If we were cultured, we would not be conscious of lacking culture. We would regard it as something natural and would not make so much fuss about it. And if we knew the real value of this word we would be cultured enough not to give it so much importance.