Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Beckett

in reality we are one and all from the unthinkable first to the no less unthinkable last glued together in a vast imbrication of flesh without breach or fissure

Samuel Beckett

Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.

Samuel Gompers

The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish.

Samuel Beckett

Watt's concern, deep as it appeared, was not after all what the figure was, in reality, but with what the figure appeared to be, in reality.

Samuel Beckett

The time-state of attainment eliminates so accurately the time-state of aspiration, that the actual seems the inevitable, and, all conscious intellectual effort to reconstitute the invisible and unthinkable as a reality being fruitless, we are incapable of appreciating our joy by comparing it with our sorrow.

Salvador Dali

Paranoiac-critical activity makes the world of delirium pass onto the plane of reality...

Salman Rushdie

The inevitable triumph of illusion over reality that was the single most obvious truth about the history of the human race.

Salman Rushdie

I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.

Salman Rushdie

Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.

Salman Rushdie

Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.

Salman Rushdie

Reality is a question of perspective;

Rudolf Steiner

The task of understanding is not to replicate in conceptual form something that already exists, but rather to create a wholly new realm, that together with the world given to our senses constitutes the fullness of reality.

Rudolf Steiner

Beauty is not the divine in a cloak of physical reality; no, it is physical reality in a cloak that is divine. The artist does not bring the divine on to the earth by letting it flow into the world; he raises the world into the sphere of the divine.

Walton Goggins

When you get the call from Quentin Tarantino, it's the call of a lifetime. You don't allow yourself to be vulnerable enough or to be fool enough to expect that phone call to happen, in reality.

Wangari Maathai

We all share one planet and are one hummanity, there is no escaping this reality.

Jostein Gaarder

But she’d managed to find her way into our reality, perhaps because she had an important mission here, perhaps because she was here to save us from what people call the monotony of life.

Jostein Gaarder

A philosopher knows that in reality he knows very little. That is why he constantly strives to achieve true insight. Socrates was one of these rare people. He knew that he knew nothing about life and about the world. And now comes the important part: it troubled him that he knew so little.

Joseph Epstein

The reason 'closure' is a cliche is that it is used too often, too imprecisely, and doesn't in any case reflect reality. In reality, such closure in broken friendships and much else in life is rarely achieved; only death brings closure and then not always for those still living.

Joss Whedon

Writers are completely out of touch with reality.

Joss Whedon

If I had created reality television I would have had a much greater influence, but then I would have had to KILL MYSELF.

Kofi Annan

It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity.

Kofi Annan

Women themselves have the right to live in dignity, in freedom from want and freedom from fear. On this International Women's Day, let us rededicate ourselves to making that a reality.

Kim Jong Il

It is my greatest wish to enable our people to live with nothing to envy at the earliest possible date, and it is my greatest pleasure to work energetically, sharing my joys and sorrows with our people, on the road of translating my wish into reality.

Kim Kardashian

My reality is never going to be stick-skinny.

Kim Kardashian

People are recognizing that I am an entrepreneur and do more than be on a reality TV show.

Kenzaburo Oe

Even though we now have the half-century-old new Constitution, there is a popular sentiment of support for the old one that lives on in reality in some quarters.

Kendrick Lamar

Hip-hop is not the problem, our reality is the problem.

Keith Miller

Intimacy, as I am using it, is sharing my reality with you.

Keith Haring

See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.

Katy Perry

Unfortunately, I think a lot of people are affected more by the idea of fame than the actual work ethic involved. A lot of them just want to be reality TV-type people who don't do anything.

Ramana Maharshi

The Self is here and now, it is the only Reality. There is nothing else.

Ramana Maharshi

The Self is the one Reality that always exists, and it is by the light of the Self that all other things are seen.

Ramana Maharshi

There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though in fact we are reality.