Famous Quotes & Sayings

Susan Sontag

Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted. Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution.

Susan Sontag

Although there is a sense in which the camera does indeed capture reality, not just interpret it, photographs are as much an interpretation of the world as paintings and drawings are

Susan Sontag

Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.

Ronda Rousey

Reality TV is set up to make people entertaining. A good person with values and principles is not good television.

Ronda Rousey

I think that going on any reality show is not good for your mental health because you behave differently when you are being watched, and you constantly have an extra bit of awareness of what's going on all the time.

Umberto Eco

The faith a movement proclaims doesn't count: what counts is the hope it offers. All heresies are the banner of a reality, an exclusion. Scratch the heresy and you will find the leper. Every battle against heresy wants only this: to keep the leper as he is.

Umberto Eco

He had prepared his death much earlier, in his imagination, unaware that his imagination, more creative than he, was planning the reality of that death.

Truman Capote

What I do requires fantastic concentration... but you can't be totally alone, or you lose all contact with reality, so even when I'm engrossed and secluded, Jack Dunphy can be there. He's my oldest and best friend, and best critic too.

Trey Songz

Singing wasn't a reality for me, until other people started noticing I sounded good.

Travis Walton

I've come to realize that the biggest problem anywhere in the world is that people's perceptions of reality are compulsively filtered through the screening mesh of what they want, and do not want, to be true.

Rick Carlisle

I don't know it's not really a conversation until it's a reality. We'll see. A lot can happen between now and when (Tinsley) comes back. It's a situation that we'll resolve when it comes time to resolve it.

Rhonda Britten

Investing and connecting are the key factors in turning any intention into reality.

Reince Priebus

I think that the reality is, is that there's a shift in the mood in the USA that's very anti-Washington.

Regis Philbin

I have a thing against reality shows. I think they are so fake. I think they are produced before they begin. I think people know where they're going, what they're going to say, what the situation is. These things just don't happen and you know that.

Regis Philbin

The original reality show.

Reid Hoffman

The reality is: a founder is someone who deals with a ton of different headaches and no one is universally super powered.

Rhonda Byrne

You are the only one that creates your reality.

Rhonda Byrne

It's OK that thoughts don't manifest into reality immediately.

Rhonda Byrne

So let the variety of your reality thrill you as you choose all the things you want.. get behind the good feelings of all your wants.

Rick Warren

Faithful servants never retire. You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God.

Rick Warren

Faith is facing reality without being discouraged by it.

Trishelle Cannatella

I'd like to be an assistant producer to a reality show.

Trent Reznor

I was up above it. Now, I'm down in it.

Traci Bingham

I enjoy reality TV shows. Watching them, and appearing in them. There's a spontaniety involved in the unscripted shows that I like to be involved with.

Tracy Chapman

Words don't come easily, like forgive me.

Tracy Chapman

We all must live our lives always feeling, always thinking the moment has arrived.

Tori Spelling

My reality is the misconceptions about me.

Steve Young

Perception is reality. If you are perceived to be something, you might as well be it because that's the truth in people's minds.

Vince Lombardi

To me, a leader is a visionary that energizes others. This definition of leadership has two key dimensions: a) creating the vision of the future, and b) inspiring others to make the vision a reality.

Stuart Wilde

An affirmation is almost like a mantra. It does not really matter if what you are affirming is not totally true as yet. By repeating an affirmation over and over again, it becomes embedded in the subconscious mind, and eventually it becomes your reality.

Stuart Wilde

All mankind's inner feelings eventually manifest themselves as an outer reality.

Stuart Wilde

If you don't change, reality in the end forces that change upon you.

Stockwell Day

It is said that a neo-conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality.