Famous Quotes & Sayings

Niecy Nash

I don't need to do a reality show to make my mark in this world.

Nicole Krauss

I have realised just how important it is to readers to feel that fictional stories are based on reality.

Marvin Gaye

Natural fact is, I can't pay my taxes. Make me wanna holler and throw up on my hands.

Marvin Gaye

Crime is increasing, trigger happy policing. Panic is spreading, God knows where we're heading.

Marvin Kalb

If anything good is going to emerge out of this, it's going to be the result of an acceptable modus vivendi between Ukraine and Russia. The two of them will have to get together at some point. It is going to be a result that many people in the West will not like, because Russia, as the bigger power, is going to get the better of the deal. So, a lot of people will say, that's appeasement. That's this - that - it's reality.

Marvin Kalb

But there are realities governing what they can do. And Ukraine cannot live with the false image that somehow or another the West will come and rescue her. It's not going to happen.

Nicholas Sparks

In the end, you really want to make the best film that you can, and in the reality of the filmmaking world, you have things like budgets.

Ne-Yo

I watch cartoons the way most adults watch reality-TV shows.

Nawal El Saadawi

We never know the reality of things: we see only what we are aware of. It is our consciousness that determines the shape of the world around us -- its size, motion and meaning.

Mitch Daniels

I refer, of course, to the debts our nation has amassed for itself over decades of indulgence. It is the new Red Menace, this time consisting of ink. We can debate its origins endlessly and search for villains on ideological grounds, but the reality is pure arithmetic.

Mitch Hedberg

I don't think stand-up is being appreciated as much as it could be and I don't think it has for a long time. There's some great stand-up comics who come to a town and if they're not a name, they don't attract a crowd but in reality there are brilliant people out there.

Oscar Wilde

If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened. It is simply expression that gives reality to things.

Madonna Ciccone

I feel like everybody needs to take a sabbatical and go to Russia and Africa and work in orphanages and really witness true suffering. And then you'll just feel ridiculous for ever complaining about anything. Everybody needs that kind of reality check.

Lyman Abbott

Every man's life is, consciously or unconsciously, a quest for the infinite and the eternal reality.

Lydia M. Child

That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the unreflecting slaves of custom.

Lydia M. Child

affectation is fond of making a greater show than reality. ... Nature and truth have never learned to blow the trumpet, and never will.

Lucille Ball

In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.

Lucretius

The mask is torn off, while the reality remains

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose.

Louis L'Amour

Today is all we have, tomorrow is a mirage that may never become reality.

Lorrie Moore

What little reality television I've seen seems to be about economic desperation. Like the marathon dancing of the Great Depression, which should give us pause. People willing to eat flies and worms for a sum that is less than the weekly paycheck of the show's producer. I haven't seen "reality television" that is other than this kind of painful, sadistic exploitation of fit young people looking for agents.

Liv Ullmann

reality can be magnificent even when life is not.

Liza Minnelli

What I'm saying is that I tried very hard to give them my reality and my reality is kind of interesting.

Liza Minnelli

Now, having had this experience, I can't say really what they were looking for. I don't know their minds. But every time I see a reality show, it seems that the most entertaining parts on other reality shows are when they make their guests look foolish.

Michael Jackson

I think the actor or performer should be - to touch that truth inside of a person. Touch that reality so much that they become a part of what you're going and you can take them anywhere you want to.

Michael Crichton

One may even suspect that there is more to reality than measurements will ever reveal.

Michael Crichton

And entertainment has nothing to do with reality. Entertainment is antithetical to reality.

Michael Crichton

Science is a kind of glorified tailoring enterprise, a method for taking measurements that describe something ? reality ? that may not be understood at all.

Michael Crichton

The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda. Perceiving the truth has always been a challenge to mankind, but in the information age (or as I think of it, the disinformation age) it takes on a special urgency and importance.

Michel de Montaigne

It is a human tendency "to measure truth and error by our capacity."

Michael Schumacher

Somehow I have managed to delay looking old. In reality I have good genes.

Michael N. Castle

When Delaware State University was founded in 1890, it was not by choice, but by social reality.