Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jodhi May

Television is a very highly constructed, and edited, and censored, and tailored, and marketed reality. But I'm not judgemental about it. I don't have anything against television. I just personally don't feel curious.

Jodie Foster

Now, apparently, Im told that every celebrity is expected to honor the details of their private life with a press conference, a fragrance, and a prime-time reality show.

Jimmy Buffett

When reality looks too ugly, fantasize.

Jim Sinclair

When you have growth and development, you have more work to do in the fire business. Thats going to be the reality in the future.

Jim Palmer

I put away that stuffed God I had all stitched up with my human understandings and fears. God is less formulaic and quantifiable as he once used to be, but experiencing the reality of his love is infinitely better than dragging that other one around.

Jim Rohn

Imagination is the beginning of reality.

Jim Rohn

Faith is the ability to see things that don't yet exist. Faith, though, can turn difficulty into reality, positive reality.

George Lucas

Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.

George MacDonald

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.

Emily Levine

When you're surrounded by people who share the same set of assumptions as you, you start to think that's reality.

Elvis Presley

Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.

Elvis Presley

When you get down to the nitty gritty, isn't it a pity that in this big city not one little bitty man will admit that he could have been a little wrong.

Ellen Hopkins

Alone everything changes. Some might call it distorted reality but it's exactly the place I need to be.

Elizabeth Gilbert

It's not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Petri dish. My family has great storytellers, and I grew up in a very funny, conversational house and didn't have television. This small family farm was a bubble world that didn't have much to do with reality.

Judith Orloff

Another reality is a whisper away.

Katherine Heigl

Even if you plan a marriage and a family, you are never quite prepared for the reality versus how you imagined it. In a lot of ways it's better, and in a lot of ways it's worse. That's life, right?

Karen Armstrong

Well, logos is science or reason, something that helps us to function practically and effectively in the world, and it must therefore be closely in tune and reflect accurately the realities of the world around us.

Karen Armstrong

Whatever conclusions we reach about the reality of God, the history of this idea must tell us something important about the human mind and the nature of our aspiration.

Karen Armstrong

If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.

Karen Armstrong

Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic, an ethical alchemy. If you behave in a certain way, you will be transformed. The myths and laws of religion are not true because they they conform to some metaphysical, scientific or historical reality but because they are life enhancing. They tell you how human nature functions, but you will not discover their truth unless you apply these myths and doctrines to your own life and put them into practice.

Katharine McPhee

Entertainment is such a non-reality.

Karen Russell

Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just being alive.

Justin Smiley

I knew it wasn't good when it happened. It's definitely scary. Every now and then, something brings you back to reality.

Justin Sane

The reality is that a consumer culture which chucks out its iPhones for a new version every nine months is completely unsustainable, because Earth has already reached the tipping point. 'The General Strike' attempts to personalize these issues and encourage listeners to look for a new model.

Josh Schwartz

Certainly there's got to be a little bit of reality show fatigue happening.

Joseph Conrad

Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.

Joseph Conrad

Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.

Joshua Ferris

We loved killing time and had perfected several ways of doing so. We wandered the hallways carrying papers that indicated some mission of business when in reality we were in search of free candy.

Joshua Harris

If you ant to feel deeply, you have to think deeply. Too often we separate the two. We assume that if we want to feel deeply, then we need to sit around and, well, feel. But emotion built on emotion is empty. True emotion- emotion that is reliable and does not lead us astray- is always a response to reality, to truth.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

We are shaped by each other. We adjust not to the reality of a world, but to the reality of other thinkers.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

Our reality is influenced by our notions about reality, regardless of the nature of those notions

Lawrence Wright

I like the serendipitous surprises of reality.

Lars Leijonborg

Reality is our best friend - everything indicates that nuclear power should be used more.