Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Kingsley

You can throw away the privilege of acting, but that would be such a shame. The tribe has elected you to tell its story. You are the shaman/healer, that's what the storyteller is, and I think it's important for actors to appreciate that. Too often actors think it's all about them, when in reality it's all about the audience being able to recognize themselves in you. The more you pull away from the public, the less power you have on screen.

Alexis Carrel

The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves up in them too long. It separates us from reality like a fog.

Alexis Carrel

Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.

Alexis de Tocqueville

The civil jury is the most effective form of sovereignty of the people. It defies the aggressions of time and man. During the reigns of Henry VIII (1509-1547) and Elizabeth I (1158-1603), the civil jury did in reality save the liberties of England.

Alexandra Roach

I love all reality TV - Strictly, 'The X Factor.' I really don't see why people are so snobby about it.

Walter Benjamin

The methods of peaceful protests are not capable of being effective, because in reality most people pay little attention to things that are not abrasive.

Alan Cohen

Fantasy is often closer to reality than what most people accept as reality.

Alan Cohen

Your thoughts do not create reality, but they do create your experience.

Alec Reid

The reality is that the nationalist community in Northern Ireland were treated almost like animals by the unionist community. They were not treated like human beings. It was like the Nazis treatment of the Jews.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

We all exist in our own personal reality of craziness.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Every mind has another vision of reality. There is not a common reality. Every person thinks he is like the others, but every person is different, living in his own psychology.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Don't make your living with cinema because Hollywood will take you, will eat you, will destroy you. This is the reality. You have a good picture, have success, you take the person and they destroy you.

Alberto Giacometti

Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.

Alberto Giacometti

I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself.

Alberto Manguel

Reality deals in specifics under the guise of generalities. Literature does the contrary...

Albert Einstein

There is no place in this new kind of physics both for the field and matter, for the field is the only reality.

Albert Einstein

Don't think about why you question, simply don't stop questioning. Don't worry about what you can't answer, and don't try to explain what you can't know. Curiosity is its own reason. Aren't you in awe when you contemplate the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure behind reality? And this is the miracle of the human mind-to use its constructions, concepts, and formulas as tools to explain what man sees, feels and touches. Try to comprehend a little more each day. Have holy curiosity.

Algernon Blackwood

I searched everywhere for a proof of reality, when all the while I understood quite well that the standard of reality had changed

Alfred North Whitehead

In this modern world, the celibacy of the medieval learned class has been replaced by a celibacy of the intellect which is divorced from the concrete contemplation of the complete facts.

Alfred North Whitehead

Rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality.

Alfred North Whitehead

Value is coextensive with reality.

Alfred Korzybski

What we call progress consists in coordinating ideas with realities.

Alfred Korzybski

To use words to sense reality is like going with a lamp to search for darkness.

Alex Ferguson

It's great news. The reality of negotiations today is that they take time. But these have always been conducted in a good spirit and we are very pleased with the outcome. We can now look forward to the future.

Aldous Huxley

The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.

Aldous Huxley

That’s what the human brain is there for—to turn the chaos of given experience into a set of manageable symbols. Sometimes the symbols correspond fairly closely to some of the aspects of the external reality behind our experience; then you have science and common sense. Sometimes, on the contrary, the symbols have almost no connection with external reality; then you have paranoia and delirium. More often there’s a mixture, part realistic and part fantastic; that’s religion.

Albert Einstein

... on principle, it is quite wrong to try founding a theory on observable magnitudes alone. In reality the very opposite happens. It is the theory which decides what we can observe.

Albert Einstein

Everyone sits in the prison of his own ideas; he must burst it open, and that in his youth, and so try to test his ideas on reality.

Albert Einstein

Enough for me is the mystery of the eternity of life, and the inkling of the marvelous structure of reality. There is in this neither a will nor a goal, nor a must, but only sheer being.

Albert Einstein

But the creative principle resides in mathematics. In a certain sense, therefore, I hold true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients dreamed.

Albert Einstein

Relativity teaches us the connection between the different descriptions of one and the same reality.

Albert Einstein

This change in the conception of reality is the most profound and the most fruitful that physics has experienced since the time of Newton. Refering to James Clerk Maxwell's contributions to physics.

Albert Einstein

In my relativity theory I set up a clock at every point in space, but in reality I find it difficult to provide even one clock in my room.