Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Baldwin

When you do reality, you have to be pretty careful. You have to almost monitor yourself to make sure that you don't get yourself in situations that you shouldn't.

Stephen Colbert

I know there are some polls out there saying this man has a 32% approval rating. But guys like us, we don't pay attention to the polls. We know that polls are just a collection of statistics that reflect what people are thinking in reality. And reality has a well-known liberal bias.

Stephen Colbert

Truthiness is what you want the facts to be as opposed to what the facts are. What feels like the right answer as opposed to what reality will support.

Stephen Colbert

I have always been a fan of reality by majority vote

Stephen Colbert

As we all know, reality has a liberal bias.

Stephen Colbert

It is a well known fact that reality has liberal bias.

Stefan Zweig

Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world.

Tim Storey

Today's decisions are tomorrow's realities.

Tim Walker

I know the world that I am painting is not a reality. It is a whim, an entertainment to provoke something in people, whether as escapism or relief. I think that is very valid.

Tim Wise

The system of white supremacy is intended to make folks of color doubt themselves, their intelligence, their abilities, their very sanity. And so it's important to remember that folks of color know their own realities.

Tim Cook

The reality is, is that we love competition, at Apple. We think it makes us all better. But we want people to invent their own stuff.

Thom Mayne

Scientific reality is the modern human condition, and you can see that in the symbolic nature of my work.

Thom Mayne

Our idea of nature is increasingly being determined by scientific developments. And they have become decisive for our image of reality.

Thomas Keating

is a process of inner transformation, a conversation initiated by God and leading, if we consent, to divine union. One's way of seeing reality changes in the process. A restructuring of consciousness takes place which empowers one to perceive, relate and respond with increasing sensitivity to the divine presence in, through, and beyond everything that exists.

Thomas Campbell

The smaller your reality, the more convinced you are that you know everything.

Thomas Cahill

(The festival) was awfully impersonal and abstract and there was something really gloomy about it, ... That's when I first started thinking about the typical view of reality.

Vilfredo Pareto

The diverse natures of men, combined with the necessity to satisfy in some manner the sentiment which desires them to be equal, has had the result that in the democracies they have endeavored to provide the appearance of power in the people and the reality of power in an elite.

Viggo Mortensen

I know I said I wanted to live forever and I would never be bored, but the reality is, it's probably kind of sad to live forever if you're the only one sticking around.

Victoria Jackson

Maybe entertainment is not supposed to be reality.

Victor Hugo

History has its truth, and so has legend. Legendary truth is of another nature than historical truth. Legendary truth is invention whose result is reality. Furthermore, history and legend have the same goal; to depict eternal man beneath momentary man.

Victor Hugo

He reached for his pocket, and found there, only reality

Greta Van Susteren

I think people loosely use the term 'free speech.' If the market wants to be such that people don't want to watch someone, so be it.

Greta Garbo

Life would be so wonderful if we only knew what to do with it.

Gordon B. Hinckley

It is not so much the major events as the small day-to-day decisions that map the course of our living. . . Our lives are, in reality, the sum total of our seemingly unimportant decisions and of our capacity to live by those decisions.

Giuseppe Verdi

It may be a good thing to copy reality; but to invent reality is much, much better.

Giuseppe Verdi

It is better to invert reality than to copy it.

Gerry Adams

It's been a long time coming but the reality is that this process is at a crossroads.

Geri Halliwell

There's always going to be that pressure when you're in front of the camera. When you're famous it's just an extreme version of reality and there's a pressure to look a certain way.

Herman Edwards

It would have been a great story if Brooks had went out there and scored 21 points, ... That would have been great theater. But the reality of that is very difficult, as we know, in this league for any QB when defense is playing good. And the Ravens played well.

Herbert Spencer

Each new ontological theory, propounded in lieu of previous ones shown to be untenable, has been followed by a new criticism leading to a new scepticism. All possible conceptions have been one by one tried and found wanting; and so the entire field of speculation has been gradually exhausted without positive result: the only result reached being the negative one above stated, that the reality existing behind all appearances is, and must ever be, unknown.

Herbert Spencer

Even the absurdest report may in nearly every instance be traced to an actual occurrence; and had there been no such actual occurrence, this preposterous misrepresentation of it would never have existed. Though the distorted or magnified image transmitted to us through the refracting medium of rumour, is utterly unlike the reality; yet in the absence of the reality there would have been no distorted or magnified image.

Herman Melville

The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass.

Herman Melville

There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.