Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matt LeBlanc

The majority of my background is multi-camera format, which is very broad and a very arch perception of reality. Whereas single camera tends to be more truthful and a little more intimate of a medium. Friends was an education in intelligent comedic banter; in intelligent vernacular. It was an education in scene study. It was an education in group dynamic. I came out of there with a masters degree in comedy.

Maya Angelou

It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can't do anything with that except do it.

SAT is used in the sense of reality and goodness. The word 'SAT' is also used for an auspicious act, O Arjuna.

Susanne Bier

Oftentimes, reality is much worse than what you can put in a movie.

Alexis Herman

This is fundamentally a day about paychecks and reality checks, ... Where's my 26 cents?

Sam Harris

Science has long been in the values business. Despite a widespread belief to the contrary, scientific validity is not the result of scientists abstaining from making value judgments; rather, scientific validity is the result of scientists making their best effort to value priinciples of reasoning that link their beliefs to reality, through reliable chains of evidence and argument.

Ronald Reagan

Hope remains the highest reality, the age-old power.

Ronald Reagan

Economists are people who wonder if what works in reality can also work in theory.

Ron Paul

Without precise meanings behind words, politicians and elites can obscure reality and condition people to reflexively associate certain words with positive or negative perceptions. In other words, unpleasant facts can be hidden behind purposely meaningless language.

Sam Mendes

Thank God I don't live in Los Angeles. I think if you're there the whole time it just gets out of proportion and you lose touch completely with reality.

Rumi

The work of magic is this, that it breathes and at every breath transforms realities.

Casinos are spreading like wildfire, and it seems to be an entertainment option that a significant number of people engage in. That's just the reality of gaming that it is proving to be attractive to a great number of people.

Ron Perlman

I expect that everything I do will be not watched or not seen. That way, I'm never disappointed when I become flooded with that reality.

Ron Perlman

Living off the grid and being kind of an outlaw brings a dangerous reality.

Roger Zelazny

... "fire" does not matter, "earth" and "air" and "water" do not matter. "I" do not matter. No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words. The more words he remembers, the cleverer do his fellows esteem him. He looks upon the great transformations of the world, but he does not see them as they were seen when man looked upon reality for the first time. Their names come to his lips and he smiles as he tastes them, thinking he knows them in the naming.

Roland Barthes

Painting can feign reality without having seen it.

Susan Rice

There is not an inherent contradiction between a Ukraine that has longstanding historic and cultural ties to Russia, and a modern Ukraine that wants to integrate more closely with Europe.

Susan Davis

We must also recognize the new realities of modern warfare and the modern landscape of a battlefield.

Suranga Chandratillake

The reality is the majority of people are talking about it, but haven't launched it.

Stuart Wilde

An affirmation is almost like a mantra. It does not really matter if what you are affirming is not totally true as yet. By repeating an affirmation over and over again, it becomes embedded in the subconscious mind, and eventually it becomes your reality.

Stuart Wilde

All mankind's inner feelings eventually manifest themselves as an outer reality.

Stuart Wilde

If you don't change, reality in the end forces that change upon you.

Stockwell Day

It is said that a neo-conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality.

Sting

They build machines they can't control, and bury the waste in a great big hole.

It was good to get a few days off after the number of games we had. Now it's back to reality.

Steve Case

In less than a year Revolution has gone from being a concept to a reality, with three rapidly growing sector companies, overseeing a dozen acquired firms that collectively employ more than 2,500 people. But we're just scratching the surface in terms of the potential to build Revolution into a new kind of company that gives consumers more choice, control and convenience in the important aspects of their lives.

Steve Case

Bill sees and understands the possibilities of a connected world and has the expertise and the experience to help make it a reality, ... As more and more consumers want to take their connectivity with them beyond the desktop, Bill's vision will be critical in charting the company's future course and delivering on the promise of AOL Anywhere.

Steve Coogan

Big comedy is good, I like things that are big, but good comedy has to be truthful I think and has to reflect some sort of reality.

Monica Bellucci

I have no idea how I'm perceived in America because I don't live the reality of America

Basically if you study entrepreneurs, there is a misnomer: People think that entrepreneurs take risk, and they get rewarded because they take risk. In reality entrepreneurs do everything they can to minimize risk. They are not interested in taking risk. They want free lunches and they go after free lunches.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Whether we like it or not, each of us is constrained by limits on what we can do and feel. To ignore these limits leads to denial and eventually to failure. To achieve excellence, we must first understand the reality of the everyday, with all its demands

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

We can transform reality to the extent that we influence what happens in consciousness and thus free ourselves from the threats and blandishments of the outside world.

Peace Pilgrim

Be willing to face life squarely and get down beneath the surface of life where the verities and realities are to be found.