Famous Quotes & Sayings

The reality is setting in on the AOL/Time Warner deal.

The reality is more and more of us are on the other side of 40.

Edward Abbey

The author: an imaginary person who writes real books.

Edward Abbey

Appearance versus reality? Appearance is reality, God damn it!

Edward Abbey

I must confess that I know nothing whatsoever about true underlying reality, never having met any.

Edward Abbey

I don't see how poetry can ever be easy... Real poetry, the thick, dense, intense, complicated stuff that lives and endures, requires blood sweat; blood and sweat are essential elements in poetry as well as behind it.

Edward Abbey

Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you.

Edward Abbey

The earth is real. Only a fool, milking his cow, denies the cow's reality.

Edward Abbey

If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.

Edward Abbey

Paradise is the here and now, the actual, tangible, dogmatically real Earth on which we stand. Yes, God bless America, the Earth upon which we stand.

Eddie Rickenbacker

Flying saucers are real. Too many good men have seen them, that don't have hallucinations.

Eddie Redmayne

Making a film or doing a play are completely different experiences and entirely fulfilling, but completely unique. I also think one complements the other. People often say that theater is about flexing your muscles, and is actually real acting, whereas I sort of disagree.

Auberon Waugh

History, having destroyed the religion as the opium of the people, now requires that they be given a taste of the real stuff.

Aubrey Plaza

I just want to keep finding special characters that I feel like I can bring to life and characters that are real and not superficial.

Atul Gawande

This is the reality of intensive care: at any point, we are as apt to harm as we are to heal.

Aristotle

Every realm of nature is marvelous.

Aristotle

That in the soul which is called the mind is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing.

Aristotle

For the real difference between humans and other animals is that humans alone have perception of good and evil, just and unjust, etc. It is the sharing of a common view in these matters that makes a household and a state.

Aristotle

The soul consists of two parts, one irrational and the other capable of reason. (Whether these two parts are really distinct in the sense that the parts of the body or of any other divisible whole are distinct, or whether though distinguishable in thought as two they are inseparable in reality, like the convex and concave of a curve, is a question of no importance for the matter in hand.)

Aristotle

That in the soul which is called mind (by mind I mean that whereby the soul thinks and judges) is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing. For this reason it cannot reasonably be regarded as blended with the body

Aristotle

The real difference between democracy and oligarchy is poverty and wealth. Wherever men rule by reason of their wealth, whether they be few or many, that is an oligarchy, and where the poor rule, that is a democracy.

Aristotle

Between friends there is no need of justice.

Aristotle

Man's best friend is one who wishes well to the object of his wish for his sake, even if no one is to know of it.

Ben Huh

You need to put the fear of risk aside. Startups need leaders who are willing to persevere through the hard times. Failure is an option, and a real risk. Failure and risk are something entrepreneurs should understand well, and learn to manage. Don’t have a fear of talking about your failures. Don’t hide your mistakes.

Ben Huh

Get away from the place that makes you feel comfortable with your depression. The reality is it's never as bad as the insanity you've created in your head.

Ben Kingsley

You can throw away the privilege of acting, but that would be such a shame. The tribe has elected you to tell its story. You are the shaman/healer, that's what the storyteller is, and I think it's important for actors to appreciate that. Too often actors think it's all about them, when in reality it's all about the audience being able to recognize themselves in you. The more you pull away from the public, the less power you have on screen.

Ben Jonson

There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?

Bartlett Sher

Americans like to believe we can overcome all obstacles and always triumph in the end, but that's not real life and a steady diet of stories like that will give you a pretty unhealthy view of reality.

Basil Hume

From aquaintances we conceal our real selves. To our friends we reveal our weaknesses.

Basil Bunting

Men are fools to invest in real estate.

Eddie Vedder

We went from an era when rock 'n' roll meant wearing a bustier as a woman and these spandex things and guys trying to portray someone that wasn't realistic. We are trying to make it seem real... relate to our lives.

Eddie Vedder

I just have this deep kind of connection to reality of being like... in a way, I feel like a dock worker. I want to stay in connection with my dock-worker side, 'cause that's how I grew up.

Eddie Vedder

Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.