Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Broccoli

I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.

Barbara Coloroso

If you can't solve it, it's not a problem - it's reality.

Barbara Coloroso

If you cannot solve it, it is not a problem - it is reality.

Barbara Coloroso

There's no problem so great it can't be solved. If it can't be solved, it's not a problem, it's reality.

Artur Davis

You talk about the values that you have whether they're in favor or not in favor. That's how you lead. The reality is, we're losing more and more elections.

Arto Lindsay

The Lounge Lizards were relating with a tradition and it was like I was playing within a musical context. The guitar playing stood out as being different in some way. That was a real education for me.

Arthur Smith

The real change that paintings undergo is in the perceptions of the viewer.

Artie Lange

Frank Sebastiano is a real write. He has two Emmys, one from 'SNL' and the other from 'The Chris Rock Show' . The only award I have is an FM-mmy.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Boredom is an evil that is not to be estimated lightly. It can come in the end to real despair. The public authority takes precautions against it everywhere, as against other universal calamities.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Just as the witticism brings two very different real objects under one concept, the pun brings two different concepts, by the assistance of accident, under one word.

Arthur Schopenhauer

To conceal a want of real ideas, many make for themselves an imposing apparatus of long compound words, intricate flourishes and phrases, new and unheard-of expressions, all of which together furnish an extremely difficult jargon that sounds very learned. Yet with all this they say-precisely nothing.

Arthur Schopenhauer

...this our world, which is so real, with all its suns and milky ways is-nothing.

Arthur Schopenhauer

A great affliction of all Philistines is that idealities afford them no entertainment, but to escape from boredom they are always in need of realities.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The present is the only reality and the only certainty.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The vanity of existence is revealed in the whole form existence assumes: in the infiniteness of time and space contrasted with the finiteness of the individual in both; in the fleeting present as the sole form in which actuality exists; in the contingency and relativity of all things; in continual becoming without being; in continual desire without satisfaction; in the continual frustration of striving of which life consists. . . Time is that by virtue of which everything becomes nothingness in our hands and loses all real value.

Arthur Schopenhauer

To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

Arthur Schopenhauer

A man's knowledge may be said to be mature, in other words, when it has reached the most complete state of perfection to which he, as an individual, is capable of bringing it, when an exact correspondence is established between the whole of his abstract ideas and the things he has actually perceived for himself. His will mean that each of his abstract ideas rests, directly or indirectly, upon a basis of observation, which alone endows it with any real value; and also that he is able to place every observation he makes under the right abstract idea which belongs to it.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The real meaning of persona is a mask, such as actors were accustomed to wear on the ancient stage; and it is quite true that no one shows himself as he is, but wears his mask and plays his part. Indeed, the whole of our social arrangements may be likened to a perpetual comedy; and this is why a man who is worth anything finds society so insipid, while a blockhead is quite at home in it.

Antonya Nelson

Writing is a completely private act. It's in a way like play but very serious play, and sometimes I can escape into the fictional world that I'm creating so fully as to see hours go by without my noticing it. I think that kind of suspension of time and that mindfulness is a real gift.

Anzia Yezierska

The real thing creates its own poetry.

Aphra Behn

As love is the most noble and divine passion of the soul, so is it that to which we may justly attribute all the real satisfactions of life, and without it, man is unfinished, and unhappy.

Anwar Sadat

I have realized that my real self is a greater entity than any possible post or title.

Anwar Sadat

Real success is success with self. It's not in having things, but in having mastery, having victory over self.

Anwar Sadat

I found that I faced a highly complex situation, and that I couldnt hope to change it until I had armed myself with the necessary psychological and intellectual capacity. My contemplation of life and human nature in that secluded place had taught me that he who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality, and will never, therefore, make any process.

Bruce Nash

It is a different breed of person who wants to be on a reality-TV show.

Bruce Nash

A lot of reality shows tend to harp on the negative. The person isn't pretty enough or can't sing well enough or maybe isn't even funny enough.

Bruce Karatz

This is a vision Kaufman and Broad shares with Henry Cisneros, and together we have the resources and expertise to make vital new neighborhoods a reality.

Bruce Lee

As long as we separate this oneness into two we won't achieve realization.

Bruce Lee

Because one does not want to be disturbed, to be made uncertain, he establishes a pattern of conduct, of thought, a pattern of relationship to man etc. Then he becomes a slave to the patter and takes the pattern to be the real thing.

Bruce Lee

Conditioning obstructs our view of reality. We do not see IT in its suchness because of our indoctrination, crooked and twisted.

Bruce Lee

To be what I term a 'quality' human being one has to be transparently real and have the courage to be what he is.

Bruce Lee

The intangible represents the real power of the universe. It is the seed of the tangible.

Bruce Lee

My strength comes from my abdomen. It's the center of gravity and the source of real power.