Famous Quotes & Sayings

Georg Baselitz

The reality is the picture, it is most certainly not in the picture.

Friedrich Nietzsche

He who climbeth on the highest mountains, laugheth at all tragic plays and tragic realities.

Jessica Valenti

The truth about parenting is that the reality of our lives needs to be enough.

Jessica Simpson

We set ourselves up for it with the reality show. You've seen me and Nick go at each other's throats on TV. They've got all these people giving their opinions on our marriage and how we handle it when they are watching an edited TV show.

Jerry Brown

The whole Jeffersonian ideal was that people are temporarily in government. Government is not the basic reality. People are. The private sector. And government is just a limited power to make things go better.

Jenna Ushkowitz

I wasn't a huge fan of reality shows, because I'm like 'they're taking away from the actors,' but sometimes mindless is just wonderful.

Jeanne Shaheen

Too much of our political debate...has become a race to the bottom. An exchange of insults and slanders more appropriate to reality television than a legislature.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

It is our business not to supply reality but to invent allusions to the conceivable which cannot be presented.

Jean-Francois Cope

I know I'm breaking a taboo by using the term antiwhite racism, but I do so intentionally, because it's the reality some of our fellow citizens live with, and remaining quiet about it only aggravates their trauma.

Ellen DeGeneres

But seriously, I think overall in the scheme of things winning an Emmy is not important. Let's get our priorities straight. I think we all know what's really important in life - winning an Oscar.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

History never embraces more than a small part of reality

Ian Hart

Most good roles are written for young men. We are fixated on youth. So however much people say there is nothing wrong with being bald, the reality is once the hair is gone, you might not get the parts.

Hugh Jackman

The physical reality is assumed to be the wave function of the whole universe itself.

Horace Mann

If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable.

Homer

Hunger is insolent, and will be fed.

Hunter S. Thompson

The Sixties were an era of extreme reality. I miss the smell of tear gas. I miss the fear of getting beaten.

Hunter S. Thompson

Reality itself is too twisted.

Hunter S. Thompson

The brutal reality of politics would be probably intolerable without drugs.

Hunter S. Thompson

No, this is not a good town for psychedelic drugs. Reality itself is too twisted.

Hugo von Hofmannsthal

The process of which I am speaking is nothing less than a conservative revolution on such a scale as the history of Europe has never known. Its object is form, a new German reality, in which the whole nation will share.

Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Nothing becomes reality in the political life of a nation that was not present in its literature as spirit.

Hubert H. Humphrey

To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Until racial justice and freedom is a reality in this land, our union will remain profoundly imperfect.

Honore de Balzac

Imagination helps bring out the realism of every detail and only sees the beauties of the work.

Ibrahim Babangida

At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs.

Gerhard Richter

My work has so much to do with reality that I wanted to have a corresponding rightness. That excludes painting in imitation.

Gerhard Richter

Abstract pictures are fictive models, because they make visible a reality that we can neither see nor describe, but whose existence we can postulate.

James Broughton

My earliest poems sing of the absolute necessity of allowing love to invade and pervade one's life. That can make the miracle happen in reality. Try it.

James Brown

What everybody's looking for today, they're looking for escape-ism.

James Boswell

We must take our friends as they are.

Jalen Rose

Nobody wants to be a bottom feeder and deal with the reality that you have one of the worst records, if not the worst record, in the league. Obviously, we have to turn that around and turn it around fast. I feel like if we ever show up in the same place at the same time we can make some noise in this league.

Jakob Nielsen

The best Web sites are better than Reality.