Famous Quotes & Sayings

Amy Ray

But the reality is that we are a folk band.

Allen Weinstein

Our new strategic plan emphasizes the importance of providing access to records anytime, anywhere. This is one of many initiatives that we are launching to make our goal a reality.

Allen Ginsberg

A naked lunch is natural to us We eat reality sandwiches. But allegories are so much lettuce. Don't hide the madness.

Allen Boyd

Our government has made a number of promises to the men and women who served in our nation's armed forces. Sadly, these promises of health care, education and other benefits have existed more in rhetoric than in reality.

Allan Sherman

The difference between reality and unreality is that reality has so little to recommend it.

Alison Sweeney

With reality TV, sometimes it's amazing chemistry and you get these gems that turn out to be everything you hoped, and the camera loves them and they just blossom on the show. And then sometimes it's not all you envision.

Andris Piebalgs

Europe needs a clear and more collective and cohesive policy on security and energy supply. Today the issue of security of energy supply is only really considered at a national member-state level, but in reality we need a much greater European-wide approach on this issue.

Andrzej Wajda

By dint of that concern and because that society was willing to examine its particular reality, Solidarity could come into existence.

Andrzej Wajda

As I said earlier, there are no writers who could create a literary vision of the new reality.

Andrzej Wajda

Nevertheless, in the theatre, and in the cinema, the contemporary reality of Poland has been represented only to a minuscule degree in the last 12 years.

Andrea Corr

I love reality. I love the world. I love the smell of it. I love it.

Andrea Dworkin

The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable.

Amy Waldman

Fabricating reality was criminal; editing it, commonplace.

Amy Waldman

As a reporter you tend to seek coherence from your subject or your source - it all needs to add up and make sense. In truth, in reality, there's often a great deal of murkiness and muddiness, confusion and contradiction.

Amanda Burton

I could suddenly see the pressures all around; these endless magazines and cheap reality TV programmes poking at women, humiliating us for every flaw. It makes me so angry. I really wonder what it is we are doing to ourselves, because I do think women can be the worst ones for picking each other apart.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Virginity is the poetry, not the reality, of life.

Afrojack

People need realness, reality. People can sense when someone is being pretentious or fake. It's because you feel it; you see it in someone's body language.

Aesop

Our mere anticipations of life outrun its realities.

Aesop

It is useless attacking the insensible.

Aesop

We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.

Aesop

In a crisis, give help first and then advice.

Aesop

Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

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.

Ricky Gervais

You see reality TV and it's not reality TV. It's contrived and everything is plotted and scripted nearly. Documentaries are the same and just as bad.