Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur Eddington

The word reality frightens me.

Arthur C. Clarke

Training was one thing, reality another.

Arthur C. Clarke

Isaac Asimov is, in reality, based on something I had invented a few years previously.

Arthur C. Clarke

Any path to knowledge is a path to God-or Reality, whichever word one prefers to use

bell hooks

We are rarely able to interact only with folks like ourselves, who think as we do. No matter how much some of us deny this reality and long for the safety and familiarity of sameness, inclusive ways of knowing and living offer us the only true way to emancipate ourselves from the divisions that limit our minds and imaginations.

bell hooks

As all advocates of feminist politics know most people do not understand sexism or if they do they think it is not a problem. Masses of people think that feminism is always and only about women seeking to be equal to men. And a huge majority of these folks think feminism is anti-male. Their misunderstanding of feminist politics reflects the reality that most folks learn about feminism from patriarchal mass media.

bell hooks

To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.

Bam Margera

These trees and these old people have one thing in common - they're both going in the ground soon!

Baltasar Gracian

Honorable beginnings should serve to awaken curiosity, not to heighten people's expectations. We are much better off when reality surpasses our expectations, and something turns out better than we thought it would.

Baltasar Gracian

He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.

Ariel Gore

New Agers have always told us that we create our own realities. Mind over matter.

Ariel Sharon

I cannot deny that I have doubts, reservations and fears. However, I have come to the conclusion that in the present regional and international reality, Israel must act with courage to accept the political plan which I described.

Ariel Sharon

The ongoing conflict between us has caused heavy suffering to both peoples. The future can and must be different. Both our peoples are destined to live together side by side, on this small piece of land. This reality we cannot change.

Arianna Huffington

Lasting social change unfolds from inside out: from the inner to the outer being, from inner to outer realities.

Ayman Nour

The results have no relation to reality. We won't give legitimacy to something that is illegitimate.

Ayumi Hamasaki

I don't think you should meet the people you most admire. I don't want reality to interfere with my image.

Diane Arbus

You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.

Diane Arbus

If you scrutinize reality closely enough, if in some way you really, really get to it, it becomes fantastic.

Diana Vreeland

Exaggeration is my only reality.

Diane Ackerman

Disassociating, mindfulness, transcendence-whatever the label-it's a sort of loophole in our contract with reality, a form of self-rescue.

Demetri Martin

Reality is a concept that depends largely upon where you point your face.

Dean Koontz

Truth is always stranger than fiction. We craft fiction to match our sense of how things ought to be, but truth cannot be crafted. Truth is, and truth has a way of astonishing us to our knees. Reminding us, that the universe does not exist to fulfill our expectations. Because we are imperfect beings who are self-blinded to the truth of the world’s stunning complexity, we shave reality to paper thin theories and ideologies that we can easily grasp – and we call them truths. But the truth of a sea in all it’s immensity cannot be embodied in one tidewashed pebble.

Dean Koontz

Loving the ideal more than the reality is the cause of all the misery the human species creates for itself.

Dean Koontz

The true nature of the world was weirder than any bizarre fabric that anyone might weave from the warp and weft of imagination's loom.

Dean Koontz

Reality isn't what it used to be.

Dean Koontz

Appearances are not reality; but they often can be a convincing alternative to it. You can control appearances most of the time, but facts are what they are. When the facts are too sharp, you can craft a cheerful version of the situation and cover the facts the way that you can covered a battered old four-slice toaster with a knitted cozy featuring images of kittens.

Daniel Ellsberg

The effect of that is to poison the flow of information to the President himself and to create a situation where a President can be almost, to use a metaphor, psychotically divorced from the realities in which he is acting...

Daniel Gilbert

Reality' is a movie generated by our brains. Because we don't realize this, we are far too confident that the stuff appearing in the movie is actually 'out there' in the world when, in fact, it's not.

Dan Ariely

we usually think of ourselves as sitting the driver's seat, with ultimate control over the decisions we made and the direction our life takes; but, alas, this perception has more to do with our desires-with how we want to view ourselves-than with reality

Craig Cook

People think they need to be at a ski-inski-out resort, but the reality is it's not such a big deal to jump on a shuttle.

Conor McGregor

I have visualised my imagination so clearly and so consistently that it has manifested itself into my reality.

Clarice Lispector

Reality prior to my language exists as an unthinkable thought. . . . life precedes love, bodily matter precedes the body, and one day in its turn language shall have preceded possession of silence.

Clarence Day

Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality.