Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert M. Pirsig

What we think of as reality is a continuous synthesis of elements from a fixed hierarchy of a priori concepts and the ever changing data of the senses.

Robert M. Pirsig

Reality is always the moment of vision before the intellectualization takes place. There is no other reality.

Robert M. Pirsig

Within a Metaphysics of Quality, science is a set of static intellectual patterns describing this reality, but the patterns are not the reality they describe.

Robert M. Pirsig

The Good was not a form of reality. It was reality itself, ever-changing, ultimately unknowable in any kind of fixed, rigid way.

Robert Englund

The last time we had Freddy in reality was part two and Freddy sort of went out on his own.

Robert E. Howard

Time and times are but cogwheels, unmatched, grinding on oblivious to one another. Occasionally - oh, very rarely! - the cogs fit; the pieces of the plot snap together momentarily and give men faint glimpses beyond the veil of this everyday blindness we call reality.

Walt Kelly

It is not good enough for things to be planned - they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Walt Disney

Fantasy and reality often overlap.

Walt Disney

Disneyland is a show.

Walt Disney

My imagination creates my reality.

Walt Disney

Many of the things that seem impossible now will become realities tomorrow.

Vincent Cassel

I really like romantic comedies and light movies and everything but I think - I don't know where it comes from - but when you're doing violent movies, you're closer to reality.

Wassily Kandinsky

An empty canvas, apparently really empty, that says nothing and is without significance – almost dull, in fact – in reality, is crammed with thousands of undertone tensions and full of expectancy. Slightly apprehensive lest it should be outraged.

Walter Lippmann

The only feeling that anyone can have about an event he does not experience is the feeling aroused by his mental image of that event ... For it is clear enough that under certain conditions men respond as powerfully to fictions as they do to realities.

Walter Lippmann

The function of news is to signalize an event, the functionoftruth istobring to lightthehiddenfacts, toset them into relationwith each other, and make a picture of reality on which men can act.Only at those points, where social conditions take recognizable and measurable shape, do the body of truth and the body of news coincide.

Walter Lippmann

The function of news is to signalize an event, the function of truth is to bring to light the hidden facts, to set them in relation with each other, and make a picture of reality on which men can act.

Voltaire

Among the illusions which have invested our civilization is an absolute belief that the solutions to our problems must be a more determined application of rationally organized expertise... The reality is that our problems are largely the product of that application.

William Ralph Inge

True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.

William Boyd

I tend to admire dead people more than the living. All too often, human reality diminishes the glowing reputation.

William Butler Yeats

Gaze no more in the bitter glass The demons, with their subtle guile, Lift up before us when they pass, Or only gaze a little while....

William Butler Yeats

While on that old grey stone I sat Under the old wind-broken tree, I knew that One is animate, Mankind inanimate phantasy.

Wilhelm Reich

In recent times, more and more human thinking has come to assume that the idea of a universal natural law and the idea of 'God' are pointing to one and the same reality.

Walter Savage Landor

We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.

Walter Hill

When you get into making movies, then the physical mundane reality of life must be presented. But in comics you can jack it up and work in shorthand.

Walter Isaacson

The reality distortion field was a confounding mélange of a charismatic rhetorical style, indomitable will, and eagerness to bend any fact to fit the purpose at hand,

Walter Isaacson

Steve has a reality distortion field.” When Hertzfeld looked puzzled, Tribble elaborated. “In his presence, reality is malleable. He can convince anyone of practically anything. It wears off when he’s not around, but it makes it hard to have realistic schedules.

Vladimir Putin

Anyhow, we obviously understand that, being a United States' ally and having a special relationship with it, the UK in its relations with Russian has to make an allowance for the opinion of its partner - the U.S. We take this reality as a given fact, but let me underscore once again that we will be ready to do as much as Britain will be ready to do in order to resume our mutual cooperation. This does not depend on us.

Vladimir Putin

The UN, of course, must also adapt to modern demands and take into account the reality of the modern world in its work.

William Morris

The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

The most agonising thing is to drop doubt into a man about his being a reality, three-dimensional - and not some other kind of reality.

Winona Ryder

It's weird because I think of movies like Reality Bites or something, where, even though my life was nothing like that, I hadn't done something contemporary for a while, and it's easier. You do try to make something your own.

Winston Churchill

Delight in smooth sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts ... genuine love of peace and pathetic belief that love can be its sole foundation ... the utter devotion of the Liberals to sentiment apart from reality ...though free from wickedness or evil design, played a definite part in the unleashing upon the world of horrors and miseries [WWII]

Winston Churchill

I do not resent criticism, even when for the sake of emphasis; it parts for the time with reality.