Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jiddu Krishnamurti

If I do not know reality, the unknown, how can I search for it? Surely it must come but I cannot go after it. If I go after it I am going after something which is the known, projected by me; by my own mind.

Jeremy Piven

Yet the reality is that I'm a stage actor from the Midwest - probably the opposite of a shark agent.

Jeremy Piven

The reality is that I'm an actor from the Midwest and I was 40 movies into it before I started 'Entourage'.

Jeremy Rifkin

Cosmologies are made up of small snippets of physical reality that have been remodeled by society into vast cosmic deceptions.

Jenny Eclair

I can't stand folk who are all snobby about reality TV.

Gillian Anderson

Sometimes I read a script and it's obvious from early on that it's one where the suspension of disbelief has to develop strongly from page one. Some are more reality-based.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Romance is the deepest thing in life. It is deeper than reality.

Paul Gross

After the stretch of weather we've had, this is going to be a culture shock for some people. We always end up crashing back to reality.

Paul Haggis

I just always try to find an interesting story and tell it well. That's a hard enough thing to do, whether it's a piece of fiction or it's a small piece of reality. I just look for good story.

Paul Goodman

Be patient, do nothing, cease striving. We find this advice disheartening and therefore unfeasible because we forget it is our own inflexible activity that is structuring the reality. We think that if we do not hustle, nothing will happen and we will pine away. But the reality is probably in motion and after a while we might take part in that motion. But one can't know.

Paul Auster

Fiction creating reality.

Paul Auster

Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully as I can.

Paul Auster

We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread.

Paul Auster

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

Paul Auster

There's hope for everyone. That's what makes the world go round.

Patrick Kavanagh

It is impossible to read the daily press without being diverted from reality. You are full of enthusiasm for the eternal verities - life is worth living, and then out of sinful curiosity you open a newspaper. You are disillusioned and wrecked.

Pamela Anderson

I don't like reality television, but it pays so much money.

Jurgen Habermas

Perhaps September 11 could be called the first historic world event in the strictest sense: the impact, the explosion, the slow collapse - a gruesome reality literally took place in front of a global public.

Joseph Stanislaw

No-one has held back. They have put some definition around the numbers and now we have to wait for the reality.

Joseph Sobran

How odd that Americans, and not just their presidents, have come to think of their Constitution as something separable from the government it's supposed to constitute. In theory, it should be as binding on rulers as the laws of physics are on engineers who design bridges; in practice, its axioms have become mere options. Of course engineers don't have to take oaths to respect the law of gravity; reality gives them no choice. Politics, as we see, makes all human laws optional for politicians.

Joseph Brodsky

At certain periods of history it is only poetry that is capable of dealing with reality by condensing it into something graspable, something that otherwise wouldn't be retained by the mind.

Leonard Shlain

It is the bane and the balm of individual perception that 'objective' reality is seen through the filter of each person's temperament.

Leonard Shlain

While their methods differ radically, artists and physicists share the desire to investigate the ways the interlocking pieces of reality fit together. This is the common ground upon which they meet.

Leonard Susskind

Einstein, in the special theory of relativity, proved that different observers, in different states of motion, see different realities.

Leonardo da Vinci

Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.

Your life may be really boring in reality, but online you're a competitive superhero.

Pascal Lamy

It is not good news, but we have to face reality.

Paloma Faith

I'd never go on a reality show - it's too invasive.

Oswald Chambers

If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.

Lester Holt

There are two economic realities in America today. There's been a record six straight years of job growth, and new census numbers show incomes have increased at a record rate after years of stagnation. However, income inequality remains significant, and nearly half of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work.

Leon Panetta

The political and substantive reality is that the agenda has to change. I don't think they have any choice.

Leon Panetta

The president is out there today trying to talk about health care, and the reality is nobody cares about what he's saying on health care because this news is consuming everything. No president could tolerate that or should tolerate it.