Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Twain

The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible.

Mark Twain

I've dealt with many crises in my life, but few will ever happen.

Mary Robinson

A culture is not an abstract thing. It is a living, evolving process. The aim is to push beyond standard-setting and asserting human rights to make those standards a living reality for people everywhere.

Mary Ritter Beard

Those who sit at the feast will continue to enjoy themselves even though the veil that separates them from the world of toiling reality below has been lifted by mass revolts and critics.

Martin Heidegger

How one encounters reality is a choice.

Marshall Field

Freedom of the press and also of speech, assembly, and worship can persist as social forms and legal guarantees, while at the same time their functional realities can be gradually slipping away.

Marshall Faulk

Once it's in you to being a starter, you always want to be that. But you understand the circumstances and you understand what you can and can't do. And that's the reality of it.

Mark Fitzpatrick

Even if this is exaggerated, they are close to (enrichment ability) and the world faces a new reality.

Mario Van Peebles

When you make a film that is based in reality, reality will come up all around it.

Mario Van Peebles

People are now looking at the world in terms of axis of evil and evil-doers and by logical extension good-doers, and that's a very polarised look at good and bad people. Reality is much more complex than that and people can be good and evil on the very same day.

It's just a reality of the business model. People are outsourcing a lot more, and China has established a pretty good infrastructure.

Mario Testino

A man today has to live with the reality of today. He can no longer live with the reality of 100 years ago. The world's changing so fast. Unless you are prepared to adapt every day, then you have a problem, because the world's not stopping.

Mario Vargas Llosa

We were trained as writers with the idea that literature is something that can change reality, that it's not just a very sophisticated entertainment, but a way to act.

Martin Murray

We're hopeful it won't climb much more than that (10 percent). The reality is we're all looking at the price per gallon of gasoline and heating oil, and even cord wood, and we're seeing prices that are volatile and I don't think anybody can accurately predict what we'll be paying for these commodities in two weeks, let alone two months.

Nikki Cox

I'm pretty captivated by reality TV and I know that as an actor I probably shouldn't be saying that, but it's what I like to watch.

Nikki Giovanni

One stands, in fact, in awe of the Constitution of the United States, though it is an idea and not quite a reality.

Nicole Polizzi

You have to remember that reality shows capture your worst moments.

Niecy Nash

I don't need to do a reality show to make my mark in this world.

Nicole Krauss

I have realised just how important it is to readers to feel that fictional stories are based on reality.

Marvin Gaye

Natural fact is, I can't pay my taxes. Make me wanna holler and throw up on my hands.

Marvin Gaye

Crime is increasing, trigger happy policing. Panic is spreading, God knows where we're heading.

Marvin Kalb

If anything good is going to emerge out of this, it's going to be the result of an acceptable modus vivendi between Ukraine and Russia. The two of them will have to get together at some point. It is going to be a result that many people in the West will not like, because Russia, as the bigger power, is going to get the better of the deal. So, a lot of people will say, that's appeasement. That's this - that - it's reality.

Marvin Kalb

But there are realities governing what they can do. And Ukraine cannot live with the false image that somehow or another the West will come and rescue her. It's not going to happen.

Nicholas Sparks

In the end, you really want to make the best film that you can, and in the reality of the filmmaking world, you have things like budgets.

John Green

How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!" In reality, "How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!" were probably not Simon Bolivar's last words (although he did, historically, say them). His last words may have been "Jose! Bring the luggage. They do not want us here." The significant source for "How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!" is also Alaska's source, Gabriel Garcia Marquez's The General in his Labyrinth.

Pat Sperduto

He was kind of a fringe NFL guy. Some people think in the right situation he might have stuck for a bunch of years. The reality is he didn't, and he took, I guess, chicken parts and made chicken salad.

Pat Sajak

I suspect most self-described 18-year-old Scandinavian women named Inga who collect and wear string bikinis are, in reality, more likely to be middle-aged, pot-bellied guys named Lou who collect and wear string cheese.

Pat Robertson

I'm parodied as being some right-wing fundamentalist extremist, it just isn't true. The parody doesn't reflect reality.

P. D. James

In youth we take egregious risks because death has no reality for us. Youth goes caparisoned in immortality. It is only in middle age that we are shadowed by the awareness of the transitoriness of life.

Ozzy Osbourne

I knew it was time to get off of reality TV when someone asked me if I sang as well as acted.

Ovid

Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.

Paul Feig

The good thing is that I really think that American television is in kind of a second golden age. Even though there's a lot of reality and all those contest shows, which aren't my kind of shows, the scripted stuff that's going on is so good right now because of basic cable. Everyone has stepped it up and realised that people like quality.

Marya Mannes

In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.