Famous Quotes & Sayings

Noam Chomsky

Compare mathematics and the political sciences - it's quite striking. In mathematics, in physics, people are concerned with what you say, not with your certification. But in order to speak about social reality, you must have the proper credentials, particularly if you depart from the accepted framework of thinking. Generally speaking, it seems fair to say that the richer the intellectual substance of a field, the less there is a concern for credentials, and the greater is the concern for content.

Mike Myers

I loved the logistical reality of a guy who wants to take over the world, yet who has a family too.

John Ashcroft

Sometimes the act of walking in the face of the elements helps us come to grips with reality. Or it simply exhausts us to the point of seeing the futility of resisting reality and the futility of denial.

It was apparent that many of the speeds used in the estimates were too large. The scale guiding wind speeds wasn't in tune with reality.

Joe Strummer

The future is unwritten.

Joe Namath

The reality of it, excuse me, is when you're in the public they already have a perception of you, ... And that can be a little awkward.

Jodi Picoult

Like the teens I worked with, I understood the need for miracles--they kept reality from paralyzing you

Jodi Picoult

I know how difficult it can be when the image you've had of something doesn't match its reality; when the friend beside you turns into a monster.

Jodi Picoult

To be truly popular, it has to look like something you are, when in reality, it's what you make yourself.

Jodi Picoult

Me, I was already jaded and tarnished, skeptical that a fantasy world could keep reality at bay.

Jodi Picoult

Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you invert the equation - expectation divided by reality - you didn't get the opposite of happiness. What you got, Lewis realized, was hope.

Jodi Picoult

In reality, you don’t ever change the hurricane. You just learn how to stay out of its path.

John Grahame

A lot of guys just got off the flight yesterday. There's no excuses but that's the reality.

John Green

How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!" In reality, "How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!" were probably not Simon Bolivar's last words (although he did, historically, say them). His last words may have been "Jose! Bring the luggage. They do not want us here." The significant source for "How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!" is also Alaska's source, Gabriel Garcia Marquez's The General in his Labyrinth.

Pat Sperduto

He was kind of a fringe NFL guy. Some people think in the right situation he might have stuck for a bunch of years. The reality is he didn't, and he took, I guess, chicken parts and made chicken salad.

Pat Sajak

I suspect most self-described 18-year-old Scandinavian women named Inga who collect and wear string bikinis are, in reality, more likely to be middle-aged, pot-bellied guys named Lou who collect and wear string cheese.

Pat Robertson

I'm parodied as being some right-wing fundamentalist extremist, it just isn't true. The parody doesn't reflect reality.

P. D. James

In youth we take egregious risks because death has no reality for us. Youth goes caparisoned in immortality. It is only in middle age that we are shadowed by the awareness of the transitoriness of life.

Mary Robinson

A culture is not an abstract thing. It is a living, evolving process. The aim is to push beyond standard-setting and asserting human rights to make those standards a living reality for people everywhere.

Mary Ritter Beard

Those who sit at the feast will continue to enjoy themselves even though the veil that separates them from the world of toiling reality below has been lifted by mass revolts and critics.

Martin Heidegger

How one encounters reality is a choice.

Marshall Field

Freedom of the press and also of speech, assembly, and worship can persist as social forms and legal guarantees, while at the same time their functional realities can be gradually slipping away.

Marshall Faulk

Once it's in you to being a starter, you always want to be that. But you understand the circumstances and you understand what you can and can't do. And that's the reality of it.

Mark Fitzpatrick

Even if this is exaggerated, they are close to (enrichment ability) and the world faces a new reality.

Mario Van Peebles

When you make a film that is based in reality, reality will come up all around it.

Mario Van Peebles

People are now looking at the world in terms of axis of evil and evil-doers and by logical extension good-doers, and that's a very polarised look at good and bad people. Reality is much more complex than that and people can be good and evil on the very same day.

It's just a reality of the business model. People are outsourcing a lot more, and China has established a pretty good infrastructure.

Mario Testino

A man today has to live with the reality of today. He can no longer live with the reality of 100 years ago. The world's changing so fast. Unless you are prepared to adapt every day, then you have a problem, because the world's not stopping.

Mario Vargas Llosa

We were trained as writers with the idea that literature is something that can change reality, that it's not just a very sophisticated entertainment, but a way to act.

Martin Murray

We're hopeful it won't climb much more than that (10 percent). The reality is we're all looking at the price per gallon of gasoline and heating oil, and even cord wood, and we're seeing prices that are volatile and I don't think anybody can accurately predict what we'll be paying for these commodities in two weeks, let alone two months.

Nikki Cox

I'm pretty captivated by reality TV and I know that as an actor I probably shouldn't be saying that, but it's what I like to watch.

Nikki Giovanni

One stands, in fact, in awe of the Constitution of the United States, though it is an idea and not quite a reality.

Nicole Polizzi

You have to remember that reality shows capture your worst moments.