Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thor Heyerdahl

We must wake up to the insane reality of our time. We are all irresponsible, unless we demand from the responsible decision makers that modern armaments must no longer be made available to people whose former battle axes and swords our ancestors condemned.

Richard Branson

But the majority of things that one could get stressed about, they?re not worth getting stressed about.

Robert Anthony

We insist that society should conform to our own subjective illusion of reality.

Robert Adams

How can we hope, after all, to see a tree or rock or clear north sky if we do not adopt a little of their mode of life, a little of their time? if the time it takes to cross space is a way by which we define it, then to arrive at a view of space “in no time” is to have denied its reality

Tim O'Brien

Imagination, like reality, has its limits.

Tillie Olsen

Women have the right to say: this is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades.

Tilda Swinton

We talked [with Scott Derrickson] about making it kind of muscular and practical. Yeah it's a fantasy but what's the difference between fantasy and reality really?

Tim Allen

Can we take a direct flight back to reality or do we have to change planes in Denver?

Steven Wright

To me, comedy is just twisting reality. It's commenting or observing or twisting life.

Steven Soderbergh

Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but thats not reality, its just another aesthetic form of fiction.

Regina Hall

Scary Movie' is very broad, and the reality is extreme.

Raymond Moody

What do I think happens when we die? I think we enter into another stage of existence or another state of consciousness that is so extraordinarily different from the reality we have here in the physical world that the language we have is not yet adequate to describe this other state of existence or consciousness. Based on what I have heard from thousands of people, we enter into a realm of joy, light, peace, and love in which we discover that the process of knowledge does not stop when we die. Instead, the process of learning and development goes on for eternity.

Robert Bruininks

We need to make this a reality this year or I strongly suspect it will not happen.

Tom Hooper

I was always obsessed with finding truly researched images to add authenticity, out of that came something totally contemporary and modern. Research is very key to my process because over and over again, reality provides more interesting images than you could have invented.

Toni Morrison

Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.

Tom Stoppard

From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.

Tom Stoppard

...reality, the name we give to the common experience.

Tom Glavine

You can't tell me what we're doing right now is not working. The perception is, well, it's not. I don't deal in perception. I want to deal in reality. The reality of the matter is that the percentage of guys who are taking has gone way down.

Tom Clancy

There is an old saying: In history nothing is true but the names and dates. In fiction everything is true but the names and dates. The difference between reality and fiction? Fiction has to make sense.

Tim LaHaye

We both know that, my friend, but a man's perception soon becomes his reality.

Tim Ferriss

Reality is negotiable.

Tia Mowry

Doing reality TV is a lot harder than I thought because I come from the world of [scripted] television where everything is thought out and you know what's going to happen, your lines, what your wardrobe is going to be, etc. But with reality, it's very spontaneous and the cameras are around for 12 hours a day.

Samuel Adams

The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.

Tamsin Egerton

I don't think any actors love taking their clothes off on film, unless you're an exhibitionist, which I'm certainly not. Those are the scenes that you actually dread doing. But, so much more goes into this role. As an actress, it's all about reality, and I'm not a prude. I'm not someone who judges other people for taking their clothes off for roles. I'm not going to show everything, but nudity here or there doesn't faze me.

Tammy Bruce

Gone are the days when reality fed the feminist movement.

Tamara Mellon

I don't really understand what the public perception of me is. I think public perception and reality are two wholly different things.

Sylvia Plath

The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.

Roy Spencer

We are now at the point in the age of global warming hysteria where the IPCC global warming theory has crashed into the hard reality of observations.

Roy Spencer

Twice I have testified in congress that unbiased funding on the subject of the causes of warming would be much closer to a reality if 50% of that money was devoted to finding natural reasons for climate change.

Roy Lichtenstein

You know, as you compose music, you're just off in your own world. You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.

Ron Suskind

Who besides guys like me are part of the reality-based community?

Ron Suskind

We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality - judiciously, as you will - we'll act again, creating new realities ... we're history's actors ... and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.

Rollo May

When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon the reality of the immediate relationship.