Famous Quotes & Sayings

Murray Gell-Mann

Hugh Everett's work has been described by many people in terms of many worlds, the idea being that every one of the various alternative histories, branching histories, is assigned some sort of reality.

Muriel Rukeyser

dogma and shrinking from the external world are at one limit of the range of belief. At the other are science and poetry and, indeed, reality.

Muriel Rukeyser

reality is the completion of experience ...

Mohamed Al-Fayed

The car crash that took the lives of these two lovely people has been portrayed as a traffic accident caused by a drunk driving at high speed. The reality is that it was murder.

Kumi Naidoo

The reality is today most of our political leaders want to be treated as gods and semi-gods, from the security details to the fuss around them and so on.

Kumi Naidoo

My final advice for young people is to not wait for leadership from adult politicians. Step forward today, because our current leaders are denying the dire reality we are facing. Leadership can come form anywhere.

Kumi Naidoo

There is no definition of terrorism and there is still the reality that one person's terrorist is another person's freedom fighter.

Kirsten Gillibrand

The Senate is extremely slow: They have enormous difficulty passing the bills that even get through the House. That's the reality that I've recognized in my two years: that it takes time to change the world.

Kevin Harrington

Reality TV is a totally different animal than the infomercial world.

Kevin Costner

I think that you try to raise the bar on whatever you do because you know, in this day of having to deal with a lot of reality TV, people say that scripted programming is dying, so you have to try to create something that can live in people's minds, long after they see it.

Kathleen Blanco

The challenges presented by our budget crisis are some of the most difficult we have ever faced. We are -very simply put -adjusting to reality. These times, and our citizens, demand change.

Karl Marx

A spider conducts operations that resemble those of a weaver, and a bee puts to shame many an architect in the construction of her cells. But what distinguishes the worst architect from the best of bees is this, that the architect raises his structure in imagination before he erects it in reality.

Karl Marx

In reality, the labourer belongs to capital before he has sold himself to capital.

Karl Marx

Beauty is the main positive form of the aesthetic assimilation of reality, in which aesthetic ideal finds it direct expression.

Karl Marx

Music is the mirror of reality.

Kajol

One thing I am sure of is that I won't judge a dance reality show.

Jules Verne

Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.

Jules Verne

Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.

Jules Verne

How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!

Judith Guest

Depending on the reality one must face, one may prefer to opt for illusion.

Judith Guest

And if you ever do a survey, you'll find that people prefer illusion to reality, ten to one. Twenty, even.

Josh Brolin

I have to tell you, you can't have an ego when you're an actor. A lot of actors have them, but in reality most of those people are just sensitive artists dying for a hug and a compliment.

Kristin Cavallari

Everyone assumes because I'm on a reality show I can't act. Which is fine.

Kristin Cavallari

I'm completely done with reality TV.

Murray Walker

That's history. I say history because it happened in the past.

Molly Ivins

Sometimes I think Texas exists as a reality check for those who might wander too far toward the precious.

Milton Friedman

Reality ensures that the end of history will never come.

Milton Friedman

A minimum-wage law is, in reality, a law that makes it illegal for an employer to hire a person with limited skills.

But we're looking at 500 households - that's a lot of people. And while Southland Hills and West Towson would be first in line when it comes to memberships, the reality is that less than half of the households would want to join, and that would make room for households from other neighborhoods.

J. K. Rowling

One of the many things I learned at the end of that Classics corridor down which I ventured at the age of 18, in search of something I could not then define, was this, written by the Greek author Plutarch: What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. That is an astonishing statement and yet proven a thousand times every day of our lives. It expresses, in part, our inescapable connection with the outside world, the fact that we touch other people’s lives simply by existing.

Ivan Reitman

I call it like the domino theory of reality. If you can go one step at a time and it seems to make sense, you can then take your audience into an area that is relatively outlandish.

H. L. Mencken

Religion is a conceited effort to deny the most obvious realities.

Grace Kelly

Hollywood amuses me. Holier-than-thou for the public and unholier-than-the-devil in reality