Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aberjhani

Within the universe of the extraordinary, those qualities we designate to human concepts of gender are often shared, exchanged, or even completely obliterated. Because of this mixture of traits, these twins called Genius and Madness often appear to be the same thing. They both have a tendency to blur the lines of what we call norms, or established reality. They both, when we study that grand tapestry known as history and modern-day society, tend to stand out in much bolder relief than other figures. -- from Dancing with Madness, Dancing with Genius

Aberjhani

The reality of a serious writer is a reality of many voices, some of them belonging to the writer, some of them belonging to the world of readers at large.

A. S. Byatt

One of the reasons I've gotten so attached to talking to scientists is that... they know there is a reality.

Abdolkarim Soroush

We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.

Abbie Hoffman

Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.

Abbas Kiarostami

I'm not sure that my films show the reality of life in Iran; we show different aspects of life. Iran is a very extensive and expansive place, and sometimes, even for us who live there, some of the realities are very hard to comprehend.

Adrienne Rich

Women have been driven mad, “gaslighted”, for centuries by the refutation of our experience and our instincts in a culture which validates only male experience. The truth of our bodies and our minds has been mystified to us. We therefore have primary obligation to each other: not to undermine each other’s sense of reality for the sake of expediency; not to gaslight each other.

Adrienne Rich

Reality, the oppressor's tongue.

Jane Addams

We all know that each generation has its own test, the contemporaneous and current standard by which alone it can adequately judge of its own moral achievements, and that it may not legitimately use a previous and less vigorous test. The advanced test must indeed include that which has already been attained; but if it includes no more, we shall fail to go forward, thinking complacently that we have "arrived" when in reality we have not yet started.

Jan Egeland

First there is the search and rescue phase that is now ending. It is a cruel reality.

Jan Egeland

It's a cruel reality. But after a week, very few people survive.

Jamie McCourt

There's potential for it being soon. The reality is that there are only 'X' positions available, so it's a matter of luck or timing. They are people positions, and Kim is incredibly qualified.

James Wolfensohn

The notion of the world as a village is becoming a reality.

James Wolcott

In the voyeurism of Reality TV, the viewer's passivity is kept intact, pampered and massaged and force-fed Chicken McNuggets of carefully edited snippets that permit him or her to sit in easy judgment and feel superior at watching familiar strangers make fools of themselves. Reality TV looks in only one direction: down.

Jason Bateman

I really enjoy playing that everyman part because that part is us, the audience. And you need somebody inside a comedy to tether the absurdity to reality.

Jane Wagner

Reality is just a collective hunch.

Jane Wagner

My space chums think reality was once a primitive method of crowd control that got out of hand. In my view, it’s absurdity dressed up in a three-piece business suit.

Jane Wagner

What is reality anyway! It's nothing but a collective hunch.

but the reality is that the world is transformed by it, but we, unfortunately, remain the same.

Barry Bonds

I don't think you're going to see me out there this year. That's the reality of the situation.

Ben Folds

The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We're growing old. It's getting late.

Carl Sandburg

A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.

C. S. Lewis

It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.

C. S. Lewis

We want to know not how we should pray if we were perfect but how we should pray being as we now are ... It is no use to ask God with factitious earnestness for A when our whole mind is in reality filled with the desire for B. We must lay before Him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.

C. S. Lewis

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it.

C. S. Lewis

Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come?

C. S. Lewis

Reality the iconoclast once more. Heaven will solve our problems, but not, I think, by showing us subtle reconciliations between all our apparently contradictory notions. The notions will all be knocked from under our feet. We shall see that there never was any problem.

C. S. Lewis

That fierce imprisonment in the self is but the obverse of the self-giving which is absolute reality.

C. S. Lewis

Very often the only way to get a quality in reality is to start behaving as if you had it already.

C. S. Lewis

Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd. It is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect.

Burt Rutan

Within 25 years, virtual reality meetings will be essentially transparent to being there in person. Once we can do this, the idea of climbing into an aircraft, and burning up huge quantities of fossil fuels to propel our bodies and briefcases full of papers, will seem absolutely backward.

Busy Philipps

I would never be on a reality show.

Bryant H. McGill

The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.