Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Weiss

Our rational minds often attempt to minimise or negate the mystical encounters. We forget the power of our experiences. We must embrace the reality of that event, which is a miracle.

Brian Dopirak

All these guys are just like me. They were a rookie at one time in their life. They treat me like I'm one of the guys. I look at Greg Maddux and saw him sitting over there and said, 'Man, that's Greg Maddux. That guy is going to be in the Hall of Fame.' Now I sit there and talk to him like a teammate. It's a reality check, and it's a great feeling at the same time.

Brian Cox

We explore because we are curious, not because we wish to develop grand views of reality or better widgets.

Brian Eno

Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.

Bret Bielema

It's hard to train that in practice time. You can make calls, you can make adjustments, but just that pressure, 'This is what it is, this is reality, I need to concentrate on every play,' that's what we've got to get through.

Brent Weeks

...if reality is hard and flat and unjust, then it's better to adjust to what really is than to complain that it isn't what you wish. That was what made me lose faith..... But having lost it, soon I doubted my lack of faith. There were niggling hints of meaning everywhere.

Bret Easton Ellis

I convinced myself I hadn't seen anything, ... I had done this many times before ... I was adept at erasing reality.

Bret Easton Ellis

What keeps me interested--and it always does--is how can she be a bad actress on film but a good one in reality?

Bret Easton Ellis

I had all the characteristics of a human being—flesh, blood, skin, hair—but my depersonalization was so intense, had gone so deep, that my normal ability to feel compassion had been eradicated, the victim of a slow, purposeful erasure. I was simply imitating reality, a rough resemblance of a human being, with only a dim corner of my mind functioning

Boris Johnson

I have come to the conclusion that Tony Blair has finally gone mad ... he made assertions that are so jaw-droppingly and breathtakingly at variance with reality that he surely needs professional psychiatric help.

Bobby Knight

Positive wish: 'The sun will come out tomorrow.' Negative reality: 'Yeah, and it will flash brand-new daylight on the same old mess unless something is done to clean it up.

Bob Dylan

Ain't no use jiving, ain't no use joking, everything is broken.

Bob Dylan

You got men who can't hold peace and women who can't control their tongues. The rich seduce the poor, and the old seduce the young.

Bob Dylan

The rifleman's stalking the sick and the lame, preacherman seeks the same, who'll get there first is uncertain.

Bob Dylan

My senses have been stripped, my hands can't feel to grip, my toes to numb to step, wait only for my boot heels to be wandering.

Bob Dylan

Mama's in the factory, she ain't got no shoes. Daddy's in the alley, he's looking for food.

Bob Dylan

Reality has always had too many heads.

Bob Dylan

You must be vulnerable to be sensitive to reality. And to be vulnerable is just another way of saying that one has nothing more to lose. I don't have anything but darkness to lose.

Billy Corgan

As a 28 year old who's lived long enough to know the difference, I know now that the feelings I felt an 16 were not necessarily correct. But however overly dramatic, the desperation and hopelessness I felt at 16 was my reality.

Bodhidharma

Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.

Bodhidharma

One clings to life although there is nothing to be called life; another clings to death although there is nothing to be called death. In reality, there is nothing to be born; consequently, there is nothing to perish.

Bodhidharma

When you don't understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.

Bodhidharma

If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both. . . . The mind and the world are opposites, and vision arises where they meet. When your mind doesn't stir inside, the world doesn't arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.

Bridget Riley

There was a time when meanings were focused and reality could be fixed; when that sort of belief disappeared, things became uncertain and open to interpretation.

Brian Reynolds

The reality is we all have to work together to make it work. We're going to be congenial with everyone. We're not telling people to park on the street.

Brennan Manning

The way of trust is a movement into obscurity, into the undefined, into ambiguity, not into some predetermined, clearly delineated plan for the future. The next step discloses itself only out of a discernment of God acting in the desert of the present moment. The reality of naked trust is the life of the pilgrim who leaves what is nailed down, obvious, and secure, and walks into the unknown without any rational explanation to justify the decision or guarantee the future. Why? Because God has signaled the movement and offered it his presence and his promise.

Bob Wright

The reality of it is you have to be over the top if you want to be noticed.

Barbara Broccoli

I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.

Barbara Coloroso

If you can't solve it, it's not a problem - it's reality.

Barbara Coloroso

If you cannot solve it, it is not a problem - it is reality.

Barbara Coloroso

There's no problem so great it can't be solved. If it can't be solved, it's not a problem, it's reality.

Artur Davis

You talk about the values that you have whether they're in favor or not in favor. That's how you lead. The reality is, we're losing more and more elections.

Arthur Schopenhauer

A great affliction of all Philistines is that idealities afford them no entertainment, but to escape from boredom they are always in need of realities.