Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sigmund Freud

The ego refuses to be distressed by the provocations of reality, to let itself be compelled to suffer. It insists that it cannot be affected by the traumas of the external world; it shows, in fact, that such traumas are no more than occasions for it to gain pleasure.

Shirley Jones

The musicals had a good, happy feeling, saying that the world is a better place. They say it's not reality, but who cares? There's too much reality these days.

Shirley MacLaine

Well, when you're relaxed, your mind takes you to the whole reality. There's no such thing as time when you're really relaxed. That's why meditation works.

Sheri Fink

Also, and this may sound naïve, but since my early days in journalism, I've felt that getting as close as possible to truth, revealing the reality of a situation in detail, has its own persuasive power. This allows readers to look at the facts and the perspectives presented and draw informed conclusions.

Shemar Moore

Television is in a different time because of reality television, so it's not as exciting.

Shawn Colvin

This world's a blessing and a beast everyday.

Shawn Johnson

I'm trying to stay as calm as possible and focus one day at a time, but when reality sets in, I feel everything: anxiety, excitement, nerves, pressure and joy.

Shakira

Fame isolates people from reality. That happens to many artists, and I don't want it to happen to me.

Shahrukh Khan

The enigma of cinema is gone because of the focus on business. As soon as you attach numbers to a film, you limit it. Films are meant to be an escape from reality.

Sergio Leone

I began to understand that 'America' in reality belonged to the whole world and not just to Americans. The idea of America had already been invented by the philosophers, the vagabonds, the dispersed of this earth, long before the Spanish ships got there. Those whom we call Americans have only rented it for a time. If they behave badly, we can discover another 'America'. The contract can be canceled at any time.

Serj Tankian

The percentage of Americans in the prison system, has doubled since 1985.

Scott Walker

Political leaders in Illinois kicked the can down the road, raised taxes, and ignored fiscal realities. Now, they're realizing the consequences of their actions: credit downgrades and negative outlooks.

Scott Walker

Washington, or as I like to call it, 68 square miles surrounded by reality.

Richard Boucher

Just a recognition of the reality of decision-making and the state of play in the government of Israel.

Richard Burr

I'd love to tell you that something is going to change tomorrow. But the reality is that it won't.

Richard Burr

We often take for granted that our lights will come on when we flip the light switch, but the reality is that our reliability standards and the current state of the transmission grid leave us all vulnerable to blackouts.

Richard Brautigan

He created his own Kool Aid reality and was able to illuminate himself by it.

Rene Char

Imagination consists in expelling from reality several incomplete persons, and then using the magic and subversive powers of desire to bring them back in the form of one entirely satisfying presence.

Richard Branson

Bakers bake bread, accountants manage accounts and entrepreneurs turn ideas into reality.

Swami Vivekananda

There is the mind itself. It is like a smooth lake which when struck, say by a stone, vibrates. The vibrations gather together and react on the stone, and all through the lake they will spread and be felt. The mind is like the lake; it is constantly being set in vibrations, which leave an impression on the mind; and the idea of the Ego, or personal self, the "I", is the result of these impressions. This "I" therefore is only the very rapid transmission of force and is in itself no reality.

Swami Vivekananda

I have been asked many times, Why do you laugh so much and make so many jokes? I become serious sometimes-when I have a stomachache! The Lord is all blissfulness. He is the reality behind all that exists. He is the goodness, the truth in everything. You are His incarnations. That is what is glorious. The nearer you are to Him, the less you will have occasions to cry or weep. The further we are from Him, the more will long faces come. The more we know of Him, the more misery vanishes.

Swami Vivekananda

All is the Self or Brahman. The saint, the sinner, the lamb, the tiger, even the murderer, as far as they have any reality, can be nothing else, because there is nothing else.

Timur Bekmambetov

You can play with the reality and the 3D is a tool to play with it.

Timothy Olyphant

In my mind, I'm doing everything, but in reality, I'm doing very, very little. You come up with one idea, one moment, one line that leads to something and you feel like it's easy. And then, you sit back and think there would be no show without that.

Thor Heyerdahl

We must wake up to the insane reality of our time. We are all irresponsible, unless we demand from the responsible decision makers that modern armaments must no longer be made available to people whose former battle axes and swords our ancestors condemned.

Richard Branson

But the majority of things that one could get stressed about, they?re not worth getting stressed about.

Robert Anthony

We insist that society should conform to our own subjective illusion of reality.

Robert Adams

How can we hope, after all, to see a tree or rock or clear north sky if we do not adopt a little of their mode of life, a little of their time? if the time it takes to cross space is a way by which we define it, then to arrive at a view of space “in no time” is to have denied its reality

Tim O'Brien

Imagination, like reality, has its limits.

Tilda Swinton

We talked [with Scott Derrickson] about making it kind of muscular and practical. Yeah it's a fantasy but what's the difference between fantasy and reality really?

Tim Allen

Can we take a direct flight back to reality or do we have to change planes in Denver?

Steven Wright

To me, comedy is just twisting reality. It's commenting or observing or twisting life.

Steven Soderbergh

Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but thats not reality, its just another aesthetic form of fiction.