Famous Quotes & Sayings

Philip Johnson

Scientific naturalism is a story that reduces reality to physical particles and impersonal laws, [and] portrays life as a meaningless competition among organisms that exist only to survive and reproduce.

Peter Drucker

True marketing starts...with the customer, his demographics, his realities, his needs, his values. It does not ask, "What do we want to sell?" It asks, "What does the customer want to buy?"

Peter Drucker

The new always looks so puny-so unpromising-next to the reality of the massive, ongoing business.

Penelope Spheeris

Many people have been able to get pitch meetings by just cold calling, especially the smaller networks and especially with the reality shows.

Penelope Lively

the days of our lives vanish utterly, more insubstantial than if they had been invented. Fiction can seem more enduring than reality.

Penn Jillette

For better or worse, in the 21st century, reality shows are the variety show.

Penn Jillette

One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality.

Penn Jillette

TV networks are dying. The death throes of religion give us jihads. The death throes of television give us reality shows.

Paulo Coelho

Possibly. Basically,everything that happens in our life is our fault and ours alone. A lot of people go through the same difficulties we went through, and they react completely differently. We looked for the easiest way out: a separate reality.

Paulo Coelho

You say they create their own reality," said Veronika, "but what is reality?

Paulo Coelho

Everything we see… is just the visible part of reality.

Paulo Coelho

The visible is always a mirror of the invisible. The reality is imagined before it manifests itself.

Martin Scorsese

I don't think there is any difference between fantasy and reality in the way these should be approached in a film. Of course if you live that way you are clinically insane.

Marlon Brando

The close-up says everything, it's then that an actor's learned, rehearsed behavior becomes most obvious to an audience and chips away, unconsciously, at its experience of reality. In a close-up, the audience is only inches away, and your face becomes the stage.

Marissa Mayer

Reality is but a poor excuse for not having an imagination.

Megan Fox

What distracts me from my reality is bigfoot. They are my celebrities.

Maynard Webb

There's never been a better time to change the way you think. Replace every 'I can't' with 'How can I?' It might sound like semantics, but I promise it will bring whatever you want to accomplish much closer to becoming a reality.

Max Lucado

We live in the most multicultural, multiracial, multiethnic America ever, and I get the sense that because of that reality so many of us are turning nativist.

Max Lucado

The secret of loving is living loved.

May Sarton

One has only to set a loved human being against the fact that we are all in peril all the time to get back a sense of proportion. What does anything matter compared to the reality of love and its span, so brief at best, maintained against such odds?

Max Jacob

What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion.

Max Jacob

The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy.

Max Ernst

Painting is neither decorative amusement, nor the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

Max Ernst

Collage is the noble conquest of the irrational, the coupling of two realities, irreconcilable in appearance, upon a plane which apparently does not suit them.

Max Frisch

I have no words for my reality.

Maureen Corrigan

Reality TV, blogging and self-publishing are all evidence of a society's or culture's desire to be more public. And that's a sign of a healthy or energetic culture.

Maurice Allais

Anyone who dares to speak about an aether is regarded as an ignorant and backward mind and he can only lose his credibility in scientific circles, although in reality those who criticize him use the same concept of intermediate medium in other words, whether it be fields, an associated fluid, a probability fluid, a pilot fluid, a quantum fluid, etc.

Maurice Ager

We noticed that, but in reality we have to take it one game at a time.

Maureen O'Hara

It turns out that our notions of what a 'self' is and how it might feel fulfilled have no more objective status than most of the rest of reality. It seems we make ourselves up as we go along.

Maureen Johnson

I could pretend, at least, and if I pretended long enough, maybe I could make it into a reality.

Matt LeBlanc

The majority of my background is multi-camera format, which is very broad and a very arch perception of reality. Whereas single camera tends to be more truthful and a little more intimate of a medium. Friends was an education in intelligent comedic banter; in intelligent vernacular. It was an education in scene study. It was an education in group dynamic. I came out of there with a masters degree in comedy.

Maya Angelou

It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can't do anything with that except do it.

Maurice Sendak

there is no such thing as fantasy unrelated to reality