Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dean Koontz

Reality isn't what it used to be.

Dean Koontz

Appearances are not reality; but they often can be a convincing alternative to it. You can control appearances most of the time, but facts are what they are. When the facts are too sharp, you can craft a cheerful version of the situation and cover the facts the way that you can covered a battered old four-slice toaster with a knitted cozy featuring images of kittens.

Daniel Ellsberg

The effect of that is to poison the flow of information to the President himself and to create a situation where a President can be almost, to use a metaphor, psychotically divorced from the realities in which he is acting...

Daniel Gilbert

Reality' is a movie generated by our brains. Because we don't realize this, we are far too confident that the stuff appearing in the movie is actually 'out there' in the world when, in fact, it's not.

Dan Ariely

we usually think of ourselves as sitting the driver's seat, with ultimate control over the decisions we made and the direction our life takes; but, alas, this perception has more to do with our desires-with how we want to view ourselves-than with reality

Craig Cook

People think they need to be at a ski-inski-out resort, but the reality is it's not such a big deal to jump on a shuttle.

Conor McGregor

I have visualised my imagination so clearly and so consistently that it has manifested itself into my reality.

Clarice Lispector

Reality prior to my language exists as an unthinkable thought. . . . life precedes love, bodily matter precedes the body, and one day in its turn language shall have preceded possession of silence.

Clarence Day

Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality.

B. F. Skinner

The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.

Ashlee Simpson

I think you get noticed a lot more as a brunette, but I don't know. People approach me, I think, but maybe it's because of the reality show.

Ashleigh Brilliant

What could possibly be more fantastic than reality?

Ashleigh Brilliant

Why does merely attempting to understand Reality so often seem to lead to going insane?

Armando Iannucci

The only shared reality we have is things we have seen on television.

Ben Shapiro

Freedom of speech and thought matters, especially when it is speech and thought with which we disagree. The moment the majority decides to destroy people for engaging in thought it dislikes, thought crime becomes a reality.

Barbara Goldsmith

No longer are there immutable standards by which to judge ourselves. Image has overtaken reality.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.

Avi Dichter

The minute they become a partner in the Palestinian government, reality will become a lot more complicated for them than when they were a terror organization alone.

Austin Phelps

We never feel Christ to be a reality, until we feel Him to be a necessity

Ashley Madekwe

I love trashy reality TV - all of it.

Ashley Madekwe

It often looks like an actor's had a big break out of nowhere, but in reality, they've been working their way up, little by little, for a while.

Ashley Judd

Well, the fact is that one imagination is critically important, and if you have had your imagination stimulated by what is basically a variety of subjects, you are much more amenable to accepting, to understanding and interacting with the realities of the world.

Ashley Greene

I honestly don't have a lot of friends that are actors. Most of my friends I've known since sixth grade and are out of the industry. It gives me a sense of reality rather than surrounding myself with a bunch of actors.

Most of the time multitasking is an illusion. You think you are multitasking, but in reality you're actually wasting time switching from one task to another.

Bruce Willis

You can't undo the past... but you can certainly not repeat it.

Britt Robertson

I like really bad T.V.; it's a problem. Love me some reality.

Brian Greene

The beauty of string theory is the metaphor kind of really comes very close to the reality. The strings of string theory are vibrating the particles, vibrating the forces of nature into existence, those vibrations are sort of like musical notes. So string theory, if it's correct, would be playing out the score of the universe.

Brian Greene

Quantum Mechanics is different. Its weirdness is evident without comparison. It is harder to train your mind to have quantum mechanical tuition, because quantum mechanics shatters our own personal, individual conception of reality

Brian Greene

Physics grapples with the largest questions the universe presents. 'Where did the totality of reality come from?' 'Did time have a beginning?'

Breyten Breytenbach

In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chattering spotlight of an ostensible transparency, even though the ultimate objective is clear.

Brett Ratner

At the end of the day, audiences just want to laugh and be entertained. They want to escape from their reality, and that's why we make movies, to get people to escape from the realities.

Brett Favre

Sometimes you get caught up in what's going on around you. The reality is that you are just a regular person. At some point, the career will be over, the bright lights turn off. That can come back to haunt you if you're not just a regular guy.

Anthony Romero

It's disingenuous and wrong to say that the attorney general's expanded powers in the Patriot Act come with adequate oversight by the courts, ... In reality, the most troubling provisions in the law make judges little more than rubber stamps in Justice Department investigations.