Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Fielding

He that dies before sixty, of a cold or consumption, dies, in reality, by a violent death.

Helen Thomas

Everyone with a cell phone thinks they're a photographer. Everyone with a laptop thinks they're a journalist. But they have no training, and they have no idea of what we keep to in terms of standards, as in what's far out and what's reality. And they have no dedication to truth.

Helena Bonham Carter

I liked pretending to be other people: I could reinvent myself, reinvent my own reality.

Johann Sebastian Bach

I was a microscopic life-form, infinitely large, stumbled backstage of its playhouse, caught a nanosecond glance of its own reality and nearly vaporized in shock.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.

Joanne Froggatt

I like 'X Factor' as much as the next person, but I do get overwhelmed with the amount of reality TV. It's such cheap programming and such a load of rubbish, most of it.

Joaquin Phoenix

Together, we can make a U.S. Department of Peace into a reality, and leave a gift of peace for generations to come.

Jim Zalesky

It doesn't matter if it's fair, that's just the reality of it.

Jim Woodring

Consensus reality seemed like a dull, dead-end street compared to the intense, mutable reality of visions or whatever they were - neurological misfires. I expected life to be full of sudden, inexplicable surprises. When these things didn't happen for a while, life seemed dull and painful.

Jim Hill

He provided the foundations of the park. All of the things that help give it that weird sense of reality are Fred's doing.

Jim Morrison

Let's just say I was testing the bounds of reality. I was curious to see what would happen. That's all it was curiosity.

Jim Morrison

There are images I need to complete my own reality.

Jim Morrison

Twentieth-century culture's disease is the inability to feel their reality. People cluster to TV, soap operas, movies, theater, pop idols and they have wild emotion over symbols. But in the reality of their own lives, they're emotionally dead.

Jim Morrison

Lets just say I was testing the bounds of reality.

Eric Friedman

We expect to make about 500,000-600,000 more. Our initial goal was one million, but in reality we will probably make a bit less.

Emma Goldman

The individual is the true reality of life. A cosmos in himself, he does not exist for the State, nor for that abstraction called "society," or the "nation," which is only a collection of individuals.

Emma Watson

The reality is that if we do nothing it will take 75 years, or for me to be nearly a hundred before women can expect to be paid the same as men for the same work.

Emilio Ambasz

In reality some images or drawings have a greater impact than many buildings that are built.

John Howard

It's too much to expect in an academic setting that we should all agree, but it is not too much to expect discipline and unvarying civility.

John Hodgman

We cannot wholly rely, as though it were Medieval times, [on the notion that] the only reality is what we see in front of us. There are germs. There are changes that are happening in our planet's ecology that are happening over such a long period of time that we cannot see the changes.

John Hodgman

The reality is that there is an enormous value to gut-check instinctive decision-making in the world that is not hampered by reams and reams of research and complexity.

John Henrik Clarke

After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, the United States would enter, in a formal way, what had been up to that date strictly a European conflict. Marcus Garvey's prophecy about the European scramble to maintain dominance over the whole world was now a reality.

Ayn Rand

Nobody stays here by faking reality in any manner whatever.

Ayn Rand

Non-thinking is an act of annihilation, a wish to negate existence, an attempt to wipe out reality. But existence exists; reality is not to be wiped out, it will merely wipe out the wiper

Ayn Rand

Reality confronts man with a great many musts, but all of them are conditional the formula of realistic necessity is You must, if and the if stands for man's choice

Ayn Rand

They proclaim that every man is entitled to exist without labor and, the laws of reality to the contrary notwithstanding, is entitled to receive his 'minimum sustenance' his food, his clothes, his shelter with no effort on his part, as his due and his birthright. To receive it from whom.

Ayn Rand

But a few understand that building is a great symbol we live in our minds, and existence is the attempt to bring that life into physical reality, to state it in gesture and form. For the man who understands this, a house he owns is a statement of his life.

Ayn Rand

You who prattle that morality is social and that man would need no morality on a desert island - it is on a desert island that he would need it most. Let him try to claim, when there are no victims to pay for it, that a rock is a house, that sand is clothing, that food will drop into his mouth without cause or effort, that he will collect a harvest tomorrow by devouring his stock seed today - and reality will wipe him out, as he deserves; reality will show him that life is a value to be bought and that thinking is the only coin noble enough to buy it.

Ayn Rand

Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.

Ayn Rand

We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality

Ayn Rand

To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality.

Ayn Rand

You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.

Aubrey O'Day

One thing I think celebrities shy away from is exposing the reality that we're all the same. Somebody's not more important because they have a Bentley or a big house or a famous boyfriend or plastic surgery - we're all the same.