Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cesare Pavese

Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will...

Cesare Pavese

Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.

Catherine Deneuve

Prostitution happens to you because of troubles you had. In reality no woman would choose to do that.

Cary Cooper

These people are obsessive. They go overboard interpreting verbal and behavioral cues that take them way beyond reality.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Does the madman know he is mad? Or are the madmen those who insist o. Convincing him of his unreason in order to safeguard their own idea of reality?

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Julian spoke with the clear, unequivocal lucidity of madmen who have escaped the hypocrisy of having to abide by a reality that makes no sense.

Camille Paglia

American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be technicians rather than connoisseurs. The old German style of universal scholarship has gone.

C. J. Cherryh

Remember, constantly, that when you talk about 'tense of a subjunctive,' you're not talking about time. You're slipping through degrees of reality.

Bryan Cupito

We're 5-3, that's what we are. We're 5-3 with three games left. Maybe it doesn't feel like it, but we've got to face reality. We're 5-3, and 8-3 looks a lot better than 5-6 or 6-5. We can make something of our season.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

You can be so dignified that you obscure the reality of what is going on.

Chris Chocola

The fact is that one of the earliest lessons I learned in business was that balance sheets and income statements are fiction, cash flow is reality.

The challenge will be to get the big corporate customers giving them their business, but it might be difficult in reality.

Chogyam Trungpa

Luxury is experiencing reality

Chinua Achebe

It is difficult to express the reality of Ibo society in classical English.

Chinua Achebe

Literature, whether handed down by word or mouth or in print, gives us a second handle on reality.

Chinua Achebe

The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I had consumed a lot of American culture, but I was not quite prepared for the reality of American poverty.

Chi Chi Rodriguez

The sweetest two words are 'next time.' The sourest word is 'if.'

Cheryl Tiegs

I think it affected me physically and emotionally, yes. I did have my ups and downs, but I actually had more ups and downs after the shots were finished and she was pregnant because of the reality of being pregnant with twins.

Charlotte Bunch

What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality.

Charles Lamb

We do not go to the theatre like our ancestors, to escape from the pressure of reality, so much as to confirm our experience of it.

Chaim Potok

Two hundred or more years ago most people on the planet were never aware of any reality other than the one into which they were brought up.

Charlie Hunnam

Most people that work in [show] business, if they're not gypsies by nature, become gypsies, just because of the reality of this business.

Charlie Kaufman

I've kind of come to the conclusion that what passes for realism in movies has nothing to do with reality and that my stuff is more realistic than that.

Charlie Kaufman

We're all subjective beings and trapped in our own realities and our own biographical stories and physical bodies and our histories - and that's the only way we can experience the world.

Charlie Munger

I have a name for people who went to the extreme efficient market theory-which is "bonkers". It was an intellectually consistent theory that enabled them to do pretty mathematics. So I understand its seductiveness to people with large mathematical gifts. It just had a difficulty in that the fundamental assumption did not tie properly to reality.

Charlie Munger

We only want what success we can get despite encouraging others to share our general views about reality.

Charlie Munger

There has never been a master plan. Anyone who wanted to do it, we fired because it takes on a life of its own and doesn't cover new reality. We want people taking into account new information.

Charlie Munger

I'm used to people with very high IQs knowing how to recognize reality, but there's a huge human tendency where it may be instructive to think that whatever you're doing to succeed is all right.

Charlie Munger

Recognize reality even when you don't like it-especially when you don't like it.

Charles Shyer

To call them emotional comedies sounds cloying. Like Billy Wilder said, 'You want to make them laugh and you want to make them cry,' and it's very hard to do so. If you ground it in reality, you get a more honest comedy. You don't have to reach for jokes to manufacture situations as much. And I think it's a type of film I do best.

Charles Sanders Peirce

Over against any cognition, there is an unknown but knowable reality; but over against all possible cognition, there is only the self-contradictory. In short, cognizability (in its widest sense) and being are not merely metaphysically the same, but are synonymous terms.