Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Smiles

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

Conservatism is the politics of reality

William F. Buckley, Jr.

I've always believed that conservatism is the politics of reality, and that reality ultimately asserts itself in a reasonably free society, in behalf of the conservative position.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.

William Faulkner

There is that might-have-been which is the single rock we cling to above the maelstrom of unbearable reality.

William Faulkner

To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.

Willard Libby

True, the initial ideas are in general those of an individual, but the establishment of the reality and truth is in general the work of more than one person.

Whoopi Goldberg

I have a [production] company, and we work with [reality TV producers] 44 Blue. They asked if we'd like to get involved. When they explained that it was the first transgender modeling agency, we said, "Yeah, of course!"

Warren G. Bennis

Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.

Wole Soyinka

Don't take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion.

Wislawa Szymborska

Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.

Wislawa Szymborska

All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination. Even the richest, most surprising and wild imagination is not as rich, wild and surprising as reality. The task of the poet is to pick singular threads from this dense, colorful fabric.

Wes Anderson

That's the kind of movie that I like to make, where there is an invented reality and the audience is going to go someplace where hopefully they've never been before. The details, that's what the world is made of.

Zadie Smith

Can't a rapper insist, like other artists, on a fictional reality, in which he is somehow still on the corner, despite occupying the penthouse suite?

Zaha Hadid

I am equally proud of all of my architectural projects. It's always rewarding to see an ambitious design become reality.

Zack Snyder

I love the irony of movies. I really do. For whatever reason, I'm incredibly intrigued by the irony of reality in a motion picture.

Zack Snyder

When Reality is a prison, Your mind can set you free.

Zachary Quinto

Part of being a psychopath is an ability to dissociate from one reality and create another one, completely.

Yukio Mishima

The images which the [press] photographer has filtered from reality, whether particular events or the anguish of human reactions to them, already bear a stamp of authenticity which the photographer is powerless to alter by one jot or tittle; the meaning of the objects, by a process of purification, itself becomes the theme of the work.

Zig Ziglar

Your mind doesn't know the difference between reality and fantasy. Your mindacts on what you feed it. Feed it good thoughts.

Zhuangzi

Only fools imagine they are already awake. How clearly they understand everything! How easily they distinguish this deception from that reality!

William Hague

We have to face the reality of climate change. It is arguably the biggest threat we are facing today.

William Hazlitt

The safest kind of praise is to foretell that another will become great in some particular way. It has the greatest show of magnanimity and the least of it in reality.

William Devane

What I would have liked to do on that show was play a secretary of state who has huge personal business interests throughout the world. That, to me, seems to be more in synch with reality.

Walter Pater

At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.

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.