Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lawrence Lessig

I think the reality is that copyright law has for a very long time been a tiny little part of American jurisprudence, far removed from traditional First Amendment jurisprudence, and that made sense before the Internet. Now there is an unavoidable link between First Amendment interests and the scope of copyright law. The legal system is recognizing for the first time the extraordinary expanse of copyright regulation and its regulation of ordinary free-speech activities.

Lauren Lee Smith

I prefer to live in my own little bubble of my own reality.

Lauren Conrad

I've always been open to doing reality again. Just under certain circumstances.

Larry Klayman

Will now allow Reno to claim she is doing a vigorous investigation of campaign financing, when in reality Judicial Watch's public depositions show she is not. Not even John Huang's secretary has been questioned by Justice investigators nor has any other Commerce official. Commerce is at the center of the Clinton Administration's illegal fund-raising. In short, the plea agreements are sadly predictable.

Larry Noble

The reality is that it is mainly a Republican scandal for several reasons.

Lady Gaga

It’s not that I’ve been dishonest, it’s just that I loathe reality.

Lady Gaga

The blurring of fantasy and reality is something that the Japanese herald in their life, in their day-to-day commercialism.

Lady Gaga

We need fantasy to survive because reality is too difficult.

Lady Gaga

I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way.

Lady Gaga

I live between fantasy and reality at all times. In that way, I’m a librarian.

Lewis Black

There is no better moment than this moment, when we're anticipating the actual moment itself. All of the moments that lead up to the actual moment are truly the best moments. Those are the moments that are filled with good times. Those are the moments in which you are able to think that it is going to be perfect, when the moment actually happens. But, the moment is reality, and reality always kinda sucks!

Lewis Black

The Democrats have responded to the Republicans' lack of dealing with reality by truly not dealing with reality, either.

Joseph Stiglitz

Climate change is a reality.

Joseph Campbell

There is no way you can use the word “reality” without quotation marks around it.

Joseph Campbell

Our true reality is in our identity and unity with all life.

Karl Rahner

Grace is everywhere as an active orientation of all created reality toward God.

Karl Urban

I did a little theatre work after that and the following year I got another part in a television series. Then it was almost to the end of the year before I got more work. That was coming to terms with the reality of the vocation I had chosen.

Karl Popper

In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality.

Juliette Lewis

All that schooling never prepares you for the reality of life.

Julio Cortazar

Skill alone cannot teach or produce a great short story, which condenses the obsession of the creature; it is a hallucinatory presence manifest from the first sentence to fascinate the reader, to make him lose contact with the dull reality that surrounds him, submerging him in another that is more intense and compelling.

Julio Cortazar

Wordplay hides a key to reality that the dictionary tries in vain to lock inside every free word.

John Mayall

Check out the albums, ... Check out the live performances. That's the reality of it all. Music is such an energizing thing.

I have lived long enough to be battered by the realities of life, and not too long to be downed by them.

John Marshall

The most lively fancy aided by the strongest description cannot equal the reality of the opera.

John Marshall

I suspect that 280 figure is a bit low. The reality is it's probably closer to 700 to 1,000 (students) out of the 911 units. But if they get a lot of empty nesters and up-and-coming professionals to buy there, that number could be a lot lower.

John Mayer

Numb is the new deep.

John Mayer

Might be a quarter life crisis, just disturbin' in my soul.

John M. Ford

Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality.

John M. Ford

I long for the simplicity of theatre. I want lessons learned, comeuppances delivered, people sorted out, all before your bladder gets distractingly full. That's what I want. What I know is what we all know, whether we'll admit it or not: every attempt to impose the roundness of a well-made play on reality produces a disaster. Life just isn't so, nor will it be made so.

John Loengard

Often the tension that exists between the pictorial content of a photograph and its record of reality is the picture's true beauty.

John Legend

The best training is to play by ear: trial by fire.

John Lennon

Surrealism to me is reality. Psychedelic vision is reality to me and always was.

John Lasseter

The closer you get to reality, the harder it is to make it look convincing to the audience. That's why I tend to make things [films] that are a little bit more caricature.