Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tobias Lindholm

Sometimes it seems like if you open up the door to reality and invite it in, it will just come flowing.

Slick Rick

We need realism to deal with reality.

Slash

The only difference is that, in the last 10 years, the public has been so affected by reality TV and the Internet. They really dwell on entertainers' misgivings.

Slavoj Zizek

In order effectively to liberate oneself from the grip of existing social reality, one should first renounce the transgressive fantasmatic supplement that attaches us to it.

Slavoj Zizek

I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it.

Slavoj Zizek

As soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions from reality, reality itself loses its discursive-logical consistency.

Slavoj Zizek

Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction.

Sloane Crosley

Our brains are like bonsai trees, growing around our private versions of reality.

Siobhan Fahey

This is what I am. I have periods of enormous self-destructive depression, where I go completely off my trolley and lose all sight of reality and reason.

Sinead O'Connor

Look at all our old men in pubs. Look at all our young people on drugs.

Rajneesh

Zen has no theory. It is a non-theoretical approach into reality. It has no doctrine and no dogma - hence it has no church, no priest, no pope.

Rajneesh

Darkness is the absence of light. Absences do not exist. Sin does not exist .

Rajneesh

Zen is all-inclusive. It never denies, it never says no to anything; it accepts everything and transforms it into a higher reality.

Rajneesh

We where created to discover Love - the only reality.

Rajneesh

Passing through the fire of meditation, everything that is not your authentic reality, everything that is borrowed, will be burned away.

Mercedes McCambridge

My anger made me drink as an escape from reality, a way of forgetting. But you don't know when the medicinal effect ends and the poisoning begins ... This is my sixth year of sobriety. Overcoming alcoholism has been my greatest challenge and my greatest reward.

Michelle Rodriguez

Guys are so predictable. They can't seem to separate fantasy from reality, so I get a lot of bikers and race car drivers hitting on me. They're all just playboys, so they don't interest me.

Michael Sheen

We live in a bubble of the fantasy of death, but the reality of it is something that we obviously all face and have to deal with, at some point.

Michael Shermer

Believers can have both religion and science as long as there is no attempt to make A non-A, to make reality unreal, to turn naturalism into supernaturalism. (125)

Michael Mori

The reality is Hicks is facing an unfair justice system that is not tolerated anywhere else in the world, so where does that leave him

Michael Medved

It makes no sense at all to try to deny the reality of Jewish power and prominence in popular culture. Any list of the most influential production executives at each of the major movie studios will produce a heavy majority of recognizably Jewish names.

Michael Moore

I take much of the attacks and the criticism toward me as being very class-based, but as Americans we don't like to acknowledge that reality.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Not to mention, we’re using you for bait. (Syn) Are you that drunk? (Nykyrian) What? I wasn’t supposed to tell her that? (Syn) I’m bait? (Kiara) No, you’re not bait. Ignore the alcoholic whose view of reality is distorted by his brain-damaged hallucinations. (Nykyrian)

Theodore Roosevelt

In every community there are little knots of fantastic extremists who loudly proclaim that they are striving for righteousness, and who, in reality, do their feeble best for unrighteousness. Just as the upright politician should hold in peculiar scorn the man who makes the name of politician a reproach and a shame, so the genuine reformer should realize that the cause he champions is especially jeopardized by the mock reformer who does what he can to make reform a laughingstock among decent men.

Theodore Kaczynski

It is obvious that [leftists] are not cool-headed logicians systematically analyzing the foundations of knowledge. They are deeply involved emotionally in their attack on truth and reality.

Theodor Adorno

The metaphysical apologia at least betrayed the injustice of the established order through the incongruence of concept and reality. The impartiality of scientific language deprived what was powerless of the strength to make itself heard and merely provided the existing order with a neutral sign for itself. Such neutrality is more metaphysical than metaphysics.

Margaret Drabble

The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom.

Marco Tempest

Magic [makes] possible today what science will make a reality tomorrow.

Kingman Brewster, Jr.

Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.

Kevin Systrom

I’m always in awe of people who are artists in their fields – people who understand that simply by taking ideas and translating them into reality, they’ve created value in the world.

Michael Fassbender

Even if I'm playing a superhero, it has to be steeped in reality.

Michael Bloomberg

The cold harsh reality is that we have to balance the budget.

Melissa McCarthy

In terms of threshold, as long as it's based in reality, you can go pretty far, as long as you buy that it's really happening.