Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Hadden

The reality is you don't get stand offs who are expert kickers as well as top drawer runners. The trick is to find a balance but Phil is putting a lot of guys into gaps.

Frank Grillo

I did 'The Grey,' and it was very intense and emotional because we're in the wilderness, and it was always 30 degrees. You kind of lose your sense of reality in the fact that you're filming a movie.

Frank Serpico

The reality is that we do not wash our own laundry - it just gets dirtier.

Frank Bennett

They can make the wild ideas we come up with a reality.

George Jackson

Settle your quarrels, come together, understand the reality of our situation, understand that fascism is already here, that people are already dying who could be saved, that generations more will live poor butchered half-lives if you fail to act. Do what must be done, discover your humanity and your love in revolution.

Chris Hedges

The media propagates a message that corporations want, and there’s a belittling and mocking of the poor and celebration of wealth. A kind of cutthroat, rapacious capitalism is celebrated on reality television shows where you betray and manipulate and push aside your competitors for fleeting fame and money. These are sick values, but they’re disseminated through corporate media in almost every program you watch.

Chris Hardwick

With stand-up, there's a little bit of an exaggerated reality because things have to be manipulated to create comedy, to create jokes.

The red tape for family members who want to speak to a loved one is a reality, ... The warehousing of prisoners is a reality. ... All of this needs to be looked at, not just medical care.

Christopher Bailey

I love the creative process of the research, development, but I love also when it comes to reality, it has to be an experience. I don't care if it is an experience while you are trying something on, whether you are in a physical place, or whether you are online kind of playing, I love that you can create stories and atmospheres wherever you are.

Christian Bale

Research can be interesting, but it can be pointless as well. The realities of making a movie often are not conducive with that. I'm not knocking it. I love doing research myself, but I admit it doesn't always add to the performance.

Chris Lilley

Mostly, what I watch are reality shows and documentaries.

Chris Kattan

In Hollywood, moviemaking used to be about escaping reality to go to the movies

Chris Hayes

The reality is [Donald] Trump is just better at this game than they are. Blaming the media may be a convenient foil, but the reality is, he`s played the free media game better than they have. He has used the personal attack meme against them and literally created memes about them. They need to figure out how to play this game.

George W. Bush

If you're asking me as the President, would I understand reality, I do.

George W. Bush

I'm telling you there's an enemy that would like to attack America, Americans, again. There just is. That's the reality of the world. And I wish him all the very best.

George W. Bush

Some who call themselves realists question whether the spread of democracy in the Middle East should be any concern of ours. But the realists in this case have lost contact with a fundamental reality: America has always been less secure when freedom is in retreat; America is always more secure when freedom is on the march.

George Steiner

Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.

George Soros

I contend that financial markets never reflect the underlying reality accurately; they always distort it in some way or another and the distortions find expression in market prices. Those distortions can, occasionally, find ways to affect the fundamentals that market prices are supposed to reflect.

George Soros

In politics, manipulating reality can take presidence over finding reality.

George Soros

The assumption of perfect knowledge is very far from reality ... a lot of the evil in the world is actually not intentional.

George Soros

The reality is that financial markets are self-destabilizing; occasionally they tend toward disequilibrium, not equilibrium.

George Soros

Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception.

George Orwell

Progress and reaction have both turned out to be swindles. Seemingly, there is nothing left but quietism - robbing reality of its terrors by simply submitting to it.

George Orwell

Reality is inside the skull.

George Orwell

Sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield.

Jean Cocteau

True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.

Jean Cocteau

A picture is not a window...an abstract refers to no reality but its own.

Jean Cocteau

I've always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.

George Carlin

The more syllables a euphemism has, the further divorced from reality it is.

Gene Pitney

No it isn't very pretty, what a town without pity can do.

Gene Roddenberry

A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.

Gene Simmons

Rock is about finding who you are. You don't necessarily have to play your instrument very well at all. You can just barely get by and you can be in a rock band.

Frederick Buechner

I don't know that it makes any difference whether it's at this time or a hundred years before or a hundred years later. I think always it's a matter of simply listen[ing] to what is going on around you and in your own experience. Try to understand what's happening, or if not to understand it, at least to appreciate the reality of it.