Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

W. Somerset Maugham

A state of reverie does not avoid reality, it accedes to reality.

Vladimir Nabokov

It is strange that the tactile sense, which is so infinitely less precious to men than sight, becomes at critical moments our main, if not only, handle to reality.

Vladimir Nabokov

Play! Invent the world! Invent reality!

Vladimir Nabokov

I cannot disobey something which I do not know and the reality of which I have the right to deny.

Yoko Ono

We are very lucky really, because we can create our own reality, John [Lennon] and me, but we know the important thing is to communicate with other people.

Yann Martel

That's what fiction is about, isn't it, the selective transforming of reality? The twisting of it to bring out its essence?

Wynn Bullock

You can expand your reality by developing new ways of perceiving.

Wyclef Jean

When I lose touch with the audience and the reality of what life really is, I'll be Vanilla Ice or something.

Wyndham Lewis

God is, of course, a terrifying reality. I had thought that I knew all about God, and had Him in a pigeon hole. But I met Him at the corner of a street -- He entered my mind with a bang, and nearly burst my head open.

Wolfgang Paul

It would be most satisfactory if physics and psyche could be seen as complementary aspects of the same reality

Wolfgang Petersen

I'm an unashamed realist, and actually, I try to make whatever the script is the reality of that situation, even though it's fictional.

Willie Nelson

Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play.

William P. Young

I am a verb. I am that I amNouns exist because there is a created universe and physical reality, but if the universe is only a mass of nouns, it is dead. Unless 'I am', there are no verbs, and verbs are what makes the universe alive

William P. Young

Perhaps there is supranatural: reason beyond the normal definitions of fact or data-based logic; something that only makes sense if you can see a bigger picture of reality. Maybe that is where faith fits in.

Yevgeny Primakov

I think the three years have demonstrated how little this argument has to do with reality.

Yasser Arafat

Many of the Israelis begin to understand and discover the realities and the facts. They can't demolish five million Palestinians. They can't annihilate them.

Yasser Arafat

Who imagined that what I said upon my departure from Beirut would become a reality, when I said the volcano and typhoon which started in Beirut will not stop.

Zig Ziglar

You might occasionally feel that some people are standing in the way and slowing your progress, but in reality the biggest person standing in your way is you. Others can stop you temporarily -- you are the only one who can do it permanently.

Zoe Lister-Jones

I was never shielded from the realities of what it meant to be an artist and that made me afraid to be an artist because I wanted to know that my life was secure.