Quotes about reality
reality hollywood-hills interesting
I was looking for projects, as you always are, and I read this scene . . . and I'm in the Hollywood Hills. So I thought, 'This is interesting.' You have this setup that seems to be based in some reality and you can only wonder where Black's going to go with this. Val Kilmer
reality self vivid-imagination
Talent is an amalgam of high sensitivity; easy vulnerability; high sensory equipment (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting intensely); a vivid imagination as well as a grip on reality; the desire to communicate one's own experience and sensations, to make one's self heard and seen. Uta Hagen
reality thinking people
People have asked if I would go back to my 20s, and I'm like, "Only if I could hold onto the wisdom and the things that I've learned." But in reality, I don't think I'd want to even go back then. I'm so happy with where I'm at. My life is very content. Everything feels really good. I wouldn't want to change any of that. I'm happy for all the ups and the downs, and everything that has led me to where I am. I wouldn't want to lose any of that. Sutton Foster
reality salvation conscious
It was my misfortune-or salvation-to be at all times perfectly conscious of my misperceptions of reality. Susanna Kaysen
reality katniss snapping
Katniss, got that spile?" Finnick asks, snapping me back to reality. Suzanne Collins
reality cells doctors
Peeta and I had adjoining cells in the Capitol. We're very familiar with each other's screams.” Annie, who's on Johanna's other side, does that thing where she covers her ears and exits reality. Finnick shoots Johanna an angry look as his arm encircles Annie. “What? My head doctor says I'm not supposed to censor my thoughts. It's part of my therapy,” replies Johanna.
reality spinning gears
Reality had no gears, and you never knew what surprises would come spinning out of its chaos. Scott Westerfeld
reality people today
There are people who have let the problems of today lead them to conclude that for them life is not the way. Stevie Wonder
reality thinking average
And knowing what happens on average is a good place to start. By so doing, we insulate ourselves from the tendency to build our thinking - our daily decisions, our laws, our governance - on exceptions and anomalies rather than on reality Steven Levitt
reality problem cases
The reality is that these cases are happening all the time. It's when they get out of control that you have a problem. Steve Williams
reality understanding world
Semantics is about the relation of words to thoughts, but it also about the relation of words to other human concerns. Semantics is about the relation of words to reality - the way that speakers commit themselves to a shared understanding of the truth, and the way their thoughts are anchored to things and situations in the world. Steven Pinker
reality negative assumption
There is an automatic assumption that negative is realistic and positive is unrealistic. Susan Jeffers
reality law-enforcement cop
There's really no such thing as an 'ex-cop' or a cop who's 'off-duty' or 'retired.' Once trained, once indoctrinated, a cop is always alert, assessing reality in terms of its potential for illegal acts. Sue Grafton
reality men names
Disconnected from my feminine soul, I had also unknowingly forfeited my power to name sacred reality. I had simply accepted what men had named. Neither had I noticed that when women give this power away, it is rarely used to liberate and restore value to women. More often it is used to shore up and enhance the privileged position of men. Sue Monk Kidd
reality numbers rooms
In our universe we are tuned into the frequency that corresponds to physical reality. But there are an infinite number of parallel realities coexisting with us in the same room, although we cannot tune into them. Steven Weinberg
reality care sole
My care is for myself; Myself am whole and sole reality. Robert Browning
reality presidential faces
He needs to get a hard slap of reality in the face every once in a while. He has an arrogant side. Robbie Savage
reality attention pay
The more I pay attention to what's going on inside, the more I realize that how I feel, and how I react to what I feel, really creates my reality. And the more in touch I can be, the better chance I have to control what's happening in my life. Ricky Williams
reality two people
The reality was that Warner wasn't there. If there were two people or 20 people identifying him, they were wrong. Richard Harris
reality mars frightening
Watching Life on Mars was quite frightening for me because dipping in and out of reality was quite like myself Richard Hammond
reality salary wages
Salaries and wages must reflect the reality of the enterprise's economic performance; deviations from the planned performance should be reflected in pay. Samora Machel
reality nightmare mental-health
Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves. Sammy Davis, Jr.
reality hands people
The sum of all is, if we would most truly enjoy the gift of Heaven, let us become a virtuous people; then shall we both deserve and enjoy it. While on the other hand, if we are universally vicious and debauched in our manners, though the form of our Constitution carries the face of the most exalted freedom, we shall in reality be the most abject slaves. Samuel Adams
reality judging mind
When you're overwhelmed by your emotion, you listen less and you judge more. This is also the reality of the dogmatic mind. Tariq Ramadan
reality humanity bears
Human kind cannot bear much reality. T. S. Eliot
reality people want
One wants to be able to experience being other people, remaking a reality, remaking a life, remaking a certain world. Sydney Pollack
reality color political
Ancient boundaries are meaningless, except for political purposes; old divisions of clan and tribe are sentimental remnants of the pre-atomic age; neither creed nor color nor place of origin is relevant to the realities of modern power to utterly seek and destroy. Sydney J. Harris
reality cameras seems
Reality has come to seem more and more like what we are shown by cameras. Susan Sontag
reality expectations humanity
That even an apocalypse can be made to seem part of the ordinary horizon of expectation constitutes an unparalleled violence that is being done to our sense of reality, to our humanity.
reality thinking encounters
Any photograph has multiple meanings: indeed, to see something in the form of a photograph is to encounter a potential object of fascination. The ultimate wisdom of the photographic image is to say: “There is the surface. Now think – or rather feel, intuit – what is beyond it, what the reality must be like if it looks this way.’ Photographs, which cannot themselves explain anything, are inexhaustible invitations to deduction, speculation, and fantasy
reality pieces world
Photographed images do not seem to be statements about the world so much as pieces of it, miniatures of reality that anyone can make or acquire
reality past way
Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality...One can't possess reality, one can possess images--one can't possess the present but one can possess the past.
reality wings erotic
Left-wing movements have tended to be unisex, and asexual in their imagery. Right-wing movements, however puritanical and repressive the realities they usher in, have an erotic surface. Certainly Nazism is "sexier" than communism.