Famous Quotes & Sayings

Duane Michals

To photograph reality is to photograph nothing.

Dr. Dre

In fact, I would advise against anyone doing reality shows. I won't be doing 'X Factor' just yet.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Praise God (or whatever it is) from (if direction exists) whom (if personality exists) all blessings (if that word corresponds to any percept of objective reality) flow (if Heraclitus and Bergson and Einstein are correct in stating that everything is more or less flowing about).

Dorothy L. Sayers

To make a precise scientific description of reality out of words is like trying to build a rigid structure out of pure quicksilver.

Donald Miller

It comforts me to think that if we are created beings the thing that created us would have to be greater than us, so much greater, in fact, that we would not be able to understand it. It would have to be greater than the facts of our reality and so it would seem to us, looking out from within our reality that it would contradict reason. But reason itself would suggest it would have to be greater than reality or it would not be reasonable.

Don Henley

If dirt were dollars, I wouldn't have to worry anymore.

Don Henley

It was a pretty good year for predators.

Don Henley

How can love survive in such a graceless age? The trust and self assurance that lead to happiness, they're the very things we kill.

Colleen Atwood

Chicago is partly a fairy tale because it's inside one person's head, so that part of it's made up and the rest of it is reality.

Colin Wilson

Faculty X is a sense of reality of other places and other times, and it is the possession of it—fragmentary and uncertain though it is—that distinguishes man from all other animals.

Colin Wilson

Imagination should be used, not to escape reality but to create it.

Colleen Hoover

In reality, people are who they are and they'll never really change.

Dalai Lama

When a certain community is destroyed, in reality it destroys a part of all of us. So there should be a clear recognition that the entire humanity is just one family. Any conflict within humanity should be considered as a family conflict. We must find a solution within this atmosphere.

Dalai Lama

There should be a spirit of dialogue. Whenever we see any disagreements, we must think how to solve them on the basis of recognition of oneness of the entire humanity. This is the modern reality.

Dalai Lama

Reality is devoid of any intrinsic identity that can be captured by any one single proposition - that is what Buddha meant by "voidness."

Dalai Lama

I think mischievous people always there, ... Some kind of perfect world, that is impossible. Accept that reality. (For) those people who have genuine concern about humanity, make some effort-better than none.

Dalai Lama

Media people should have long noses like an elephant to smell out politicians, mayors, prime ministers and businessmen. We need to know the reality, the good and the bad, not just the appearance.

Dalai Lama

Since form is emptiness and emptiness is form, then instead of a hand grasping at nothing, it is better to grasp at someone's nose because this is closer to reality.

Dalai Lama

All the world's major religions, with their emphasis on love, compassion, patience, tolerance, and forgiveness can and do promote inner values. But the reality of the world today is that grounding ethics in religion is no longer adequate. This is why I am increasingly convinced that the time has come to find a way of thinking about spirituality and ethics beyond religion altogether.

Dalai Lama

Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.

in the night; when all is still that one unknown sound is heard, the sound of one's own reality

Mila Kunis

I get away with a lot of stuff that no one could get away with in reality!

Indira Gandhi

Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Ingmar Bergman

I know, of course, that by using film we can bring in other previously unknown worlds, realities beyond reality.

Ingmar Bergman

I feel very strongly that I’m surrounded by other realities.

Jack Kirby

If you're drawing a Western town, you can duplicate that Western town from instinct alone. Some artists may take it from other illustrations or duplicate what you've drawn, but it will never have that gut reality that's instinctive in the artist.

Jack Kornfield

Nirvana manifests as ease, as love, as connectedness, as generosity, as clarity, as unshakable freedom. This isn’t watering down nirvana. This is the reality of liberation that we can experience, sometimes in a moment and sometimes in transformative ways that change our entire life

Jack Kornfield

Only in the reality of the present can we love, can we awaken, can we find peace and understanding and connection with ourselves and the world.

J. G. Ballard

Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.

J. G. Ballard

Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out there, but the stuff inside your head. It's going to be commercial and nasty at the same time.

J. G. Ballard

Civilised life, you know, is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willingly. The trouble is we forget after a while that they are illusions and we are deeply shocked when reality is torn down around us.

J. G. Ballard

Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.

J. D. Salinger

She worries over the way her love for me comes and goes, appears and disappears. She doubts its reality simply because it isn't as steadily pleasurable as a kitten. God knows it is sad. The human voice conspires to desecrate everything on earth.