Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Strummer

The future is unwritten.

Joe Namath

The reality of it, excuse me, is when you're in the public they already have a perception of you, ... And that can be a little awkward.

Jodi Picoult

Like the teens I worked with, I understood the need for miracles--they kept reality from paralyzing you

Jodi Picoult

I know how difficult it can be when the image you've had of something doesn't match its reality; when the friend beside you turns into a monster.

Jodi Picoult

To be truly popular, it has to look like something you are, when in reality, it's what you make yourself.

Jodi Picoult

Me, I was already jaded and tarnished, skeptical that a fantasy world could keep reality at bay.

Jodi Picoult

Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you invert the equation - expectation divided by reality - you didn't get the opposite of happiness. What you got, Lewis realized, was hope.

Jodi Picoult

In reality, you don’t ever change the hurricane. You just learn how to stay out of its path.

John Grahame

A lot of guys just got off the flight yesterday. There's no excuses but that's the reality.

Konrad Zuse

Of course, we knew that the official reports were sketchy, if not falsified. But, in terms of information theory, this is precisely where the problem lay: How were we to reconstruct reality from incomplete or false reports? It is not true that virtually all news in a totalitarian state is false. On the contrary, most news is completely correct, albeit tendentiously slanded; it is just that certain information is suppressed. One can adjust for the political slanting of the news, but there is virtually no way to fill in the omissions.

Orel Hershiser

Stadiums fill up with people to see what's going to happen between the lines. But life isn't only about visible realities. There are invisible and unseen nuances...things that shape us into who we are.

Oprah Winfrey

What I learned at a very early age was that I was responsible for my life. And as I became more spiritually conscious, I learned that we all are responsible for ourselves, that you create your own reality by the way you think and therefore act. You cannot blame your parents, your circumstances, because you are NOT your circumstances. You are your possibilities. If you know that, you can do anything

Olivier Theyskens

What is sure is that the satellite view of our world and its evolution is now a common reality.

Olivier Megaton

People who watch Transporter are maybe asking a little less about reality, being serious, and so on.

Olivia Newton-John

There's a balance in my life, there's reality and there's the part that looks really glamorous, but we're all just people in the end.

Margaret Atwood

I don't think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It's essentially just a long narrative form. What you use that long narrative form for can be very different.

Margaret Atwood

Craziness was considered funny, like all other things that were in reality frightening and profoundly shameful.

Margaret Atwood

There may not be one Truth - there may be several truths - but saying that is not to say that reality doesn't exist.

Margaret Atwood

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

Margaret Atwood

Reality simply consists of different points of view.

Marcus Thomas

Suffering is basically the mind's refusal to accept reality as it is.

Marcel Duchamp

Possible reality [is obtained] by slightly bending physical and chemical laws.

Kiefer Sutherland

I think one of the things I was most interested in finding out was how differently we approached our work. And my reality was that we didn't approach it very differently at all, which was funny.

Kelly Clark

I don't look to my situation to determine what choices I make. I've developed a good sense of values and beliefs. That's my reality. No matter where I am, God is still good. No matter where I am, nothing is impossible. It's those sort of principles that really anchor me.

Margaret Beckett

Today's dialogue has succeeded in reinforcing the need for international partnerships and cooperation in tackling the reality of climate change.

Margaret Cho

I think reality television is such a special talent.

Mark Twain

The poetry is all in the anticipation, for there is none in reality.

Larry Sabato

The national media will talk about (national problems) because it's something that everyone in all 50 states can understand, but the reality is these are minor factors. These are local races. ... The issues tend to be less ideological than for Senate races or races for president. ... It's about potholes and streetlights.

Larry Wall

Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality...

Lake Bell

The reason I got into this business was for the privilege to exist in different genres and different worlds and play out different realities.

L. Frank Baum

As the years pass, and we look back on something which, at the time, seemed unbelievably discouraging and unfair, we come to realize that, after all, God was at all times on our side. The eventual outcome was, we discover, by far the best solution for us, and what we thought should have been to our best advantage, would in reality have been quite detrimental.

L. Neil Smith

Possibly worst of all, from the standpoint of the dedicated enemies of freedom, the Internet is a world that libertarians having been marginalized for three decades by the establishment media have made their own, almost without effort. It's an alternative reality (unlike 'meat-space' we live in) in which exactly like intelligence, bravery, or virtue the human capacity for violence is not additive, and in which it's impossible to initiate force against anybody.

Pablo Picasso

You have to start somewhere. You can always erase reality later on.