Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jorge Luis Borges

Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms

Jorge Luis Borges

We accept reality so readily - perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.

Jorge Luis Borges

Then he reflected that reality does not usually coincide with our anticipation of it; with a logic of his own he inferred that to forsee a circumstantial detail is to prevent its happening. Trusting in this weak magic, he invented, so that they would not happen, the most gruesome details.

Jorge Luis Borges

Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.

Jorge Luis Borges

Reality favors symmetry.

Jones Very

Macbeth is contending with the realities of this world, Hamlet with those of the next.

Jonny Lang

Yeah, touring can get rough some times and draining, but I always have to pinch myself and realize that I'm doing what I love.

Joni Eareckson Tada

The truths of the Bible are never just abstract concepts; they're always related to real people.

Joni Eareckson Tada

Real satisfaction comes not in understanding God's motives, but in understanding His character, in trusting in His promises, and in leaning on Him and resting in Him as the Sovereign who knows what He is doing and does all things well.

Joni Mitchell

A little lawyer on the tube, he said, its so easy now, anyone can sue.

Joni Mitchell

But you know it's hard to tell When you're in the spell if it's wrong or if it's real But you're bound to lose If you let the blues get you scared to feel

Joni Mitchell

Heaven's full of astronauts and the Lord's on death row.

Jonathan Toews

You become what you think about and focus on the most. See yourself attracting the things you want to accomplish. Thoughts and desires in your mind can become a reality.

Jonathan Tisch

The only real way to differentiate yourself from the competition is through service.

Jonathan Tropper

...you realize that you don't understand yourself any better than you understand anyone else.

Jonathan Tropper

↑ top up position down The fact that I suspect I'm an asshole means I probably am not, because a real asshole doesn't think he's an asshole, does he? Therefore, by realizing that I'm an asshole, I am in fact negating that very realization, am I not? Descartes's Asshole Axiom: I think I am; therefor I'm not one.

Jonathan Tropper

There are no happy endings, just happy days, happy moments. The only real ending is death, and trust me, no one dies happy. And the price of not dying is that things change all the time, and the only thing you can count on is that there's not a thing you can do about it.

Kevin Smith

My Father taught me to weigh my words carefully, and speak up only when I had something insightful to add to the proceedings, or something really funny to say. He also taught me that if I couldn’t be that kind of guy in real life, that I could earn a healthy living pretending to be that guy in the movies – particularly when paired up with a long haired stoner.

Kevin Smith

This is not an industry in which you curl up in a ball and shy away from the realities. It's a time to scream to the clouds that we're here and we've got great values and great prices. What better time to do that than the Super Bowl?

Kevin Smith

I've always kind of ripped from real life to some degree or at least how I'm feeling in the moment. In fact, maybe that's really it. In anything I've ever written, all the characters sound like me, which I don't think is a bad thing.

Kevin Smith

I'm always cribbing from real life. I'm not a very creative filmmaker.

Kevin Spacey

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was making us believe that he's not real.

Kevin Brooks

It's strange, the lack of emotion, the absence of drama in reality. When things happen in real life, extraordinary things, there's no music, there's no dah-dah-daaahhs. There's no close-ups. No dramatic camera angles. Nothing happens. Nothing stops, the rest of the world goes on.

Kevin Bacon

With a lot of actors, you've got to chip through the surface to see who the real person is.

Kenneth Grahame

"Glorious, stirring sight!" murmured Toad. . . . "The poetry of motion! The real way to travel! The only way to travel! Here today - in next week tomorrow! Villages skipped, towns and cities jumped- always somebody else's horizons! O bliss! O poop-poop! O my! O my!"

Kelli Williams

Real life, raising kids and trying to raise them to be good people takes a lot of work. It's all about (appearing) effortless, yet there's so much effort. You do it the best you can.

Kellie Pickler

I have fake eye lashes on and they feel like tarantulas. But they're not real tarantulas.

Kellan Lutz

I love trying to play the not-confident guy, the guy against my normal character, because that's when real acting comes into play.

Kellan Lutz

Once I was in L.A., I realized anyone could act. Why not give it a shot? I started going to a ton of acting classes, and I found I had a real passion for it, probably the biggest passion I've ever had in my whole life.

Kellan Lutz

This [Twilight] cast rocks! We get along so well together it's like a real family which is great to see.

Kellan Lutz

In L.A., I was meeting people who were all actors. My mind started to open up to what acting was. I didn't realize that Brad Pitt was a real person. I didn't think he was a robot or a machine, but I thought you were just born into acting - that it's a family tree, kind of like NASCAR. No one can just say, 'Hey, I'm going to be a NASCAR driver.'

Kelley Armstrong

Nothing screws up a séance like the appearance of a real ghost. ~Jaime Vegas

Kelley Armstrong

So I was right, wasn't I? It's still you, even in wolf form.' He grunted. No sudden uncontrollable urges to go kill something?' He rolled his eyes. Hey, you're the one who was worried.' I paused. 'And I don't smell like dinner, right?' I got a real look for that one. Just covering all the bases.