I act for the reality, for the moment, and most of all I do it for the process.
~By Ted Shackelford ~
The main thing I do now is I coach kids, and all of these stories along the way are based in reality.
~By Craig Johnston ~
There was a time when meanings were focused and reality could be fixed; when that sort of belief disappeared, things became uncertain and open to interpretation.
~By Bridget Riley ~
But the reality is when you write a song, you should be able to strip away all the instruments and just have a song right there with an acoustic guitar and a voice, and the song should be good.
~By Dweezil Zappa ~
Wherever there is one job on the verge of being lost, I will fight to save it. Wherever there is one company looking to grow in West Virginia, I will fight to make that growth a reality.
~By Joe Manchin III ~
Rarely has reality needed so much to be imagined.
~By Chris Marker ~
Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.
~By Lily Tomlin ~
I feel not unlike a small boy, waking from a bad dream to find reality not much of an improvement.
~By John Byrne ~
I am ashamed to admit I watch a lot of reality shows like The Osbournes and The Bachelor.
~By Sara Gilbert ~
Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.
~By Christopher Lasch ~
The fact is that one of the earliest lessons I learned in business was that balance sheets and income statements are fiction, cash flow is reality.
~By Chris Chocola ~
I can't say I can foresee the future and tell the stars, you know. But I do have an understanding for my own reality, just elements and things that I've learned from.
~By Jenna Elfman ~
I'm writing a novel about two actresses who go to New York, because that's what I know about. One has lost touch with reality, disappears and is picked up by a man.
~By Julie Walters ~
Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work.
~By Lauryn Hill ~
Hope is the denial of reality.
~By Margaret Weis ~
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
~By Susan Sontag ~
Reality is, I'm an actor and an entertainer, and I really wouldn't know what to do with another profession.
~By Russell Crowe ~
How many wives have been forced by the death of well-intentioned but too protective husbands to face reality late in life, bewildered and frightened because they were strangers to it!
~By Hortense Odlum ~
It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.
~By Baruch Spinoza ~
Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but that's not reality, it's just another aesthetic form of fiction.
~By Steven Soderbergh ~
I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.
~By Manuel Puig ~
If I leave, reality will devour me. Then they will all really be dead.
~By Asne Seierstad ~
I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life... I don't want the issue of Hobbes's reality settled by a doll manufacturer.
~By Bill Watterson ~
It's one of the things that looks good written down, but the reality is that you think about the pieces you're doing and try to bear in mind everyone in the audience.
~By Matthew Bourne ~
You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.
~By Walt Disney ~
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
~By Gabriel Garcia Marquez ~
Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.
~By Henry Miller ~
Some people would say my paintings show a future world and maybe they do, but I paint from reality. I put several things and ideas together, and perhaps, when I have finished, it could show the future.
~By H. R. Giger ~
Scientific reality is the modern human condition, and you can see that in the symbolic nature of my work.
~By Thom Mayne ~
This is what I am. I have periods of enormous self-destructive depression, where I go completely off my trolley and lose all sight of reality and reason.
~By Siobhan Fahey ~
We've always been a bit out of touch with reality.
~By Jarvis Cocker ~
When you get on stage, you can be anything. You are removed from reality in a way, the real world.
~By Suzanne Farrell ~
Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days.
~By Bill Griffith ~
Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality.
~By Clarence Day ~
The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.
~By Carl Bernstein ~
Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.
~By George Lucas ~
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
In reality, for me every role is completely different.
~By Hugh Dancy ~
If you're rude for television's sake, it ain't reality TV.
~By Pete Waterman ~
The reality is, some people don't want you to change or go anywhere different.
~By Kenneth Edmonds ~
In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it.
~By Ani DiFranco ~
Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
~By Malcolm Boyd ~
All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
~By Walter Bagehot ~
Country Music is great music because it really comes from real life experiences. It is such a great haven for reality.
~By Bryan White ~
Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.
~By Irving Howe ~
In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
~By Henri Bergson ~
What happens is that people who are very religious but who are not in touch with reality, cannot be spiritual.
~By Keith Miller ~
Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
~By Rabindranath Tagore ~
Subject matter that is not bound to reality offers more opportunity to write a unique story and cinematically present it in very unique ways.
~By Richard King ~
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
~By Lao Tzu ~
The experiences associated with death were seen as visits to important dimensions of reality that deserved to be experienced, studied, and carefully mapped.
~By Stanislav Grof ~
There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.
~By Desiderius Erasmus ~
All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
~By A. C. Benson ~
The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.
~By James A. Michener ~
The word "Christianity" is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.
~By John McCain ~
People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.
~By Robert J. Ringer ~
I believe that God and reality are too big for my poor words.
~By Pat Buckley ~
Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality.
~By Thomas Aquinas ~
Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.
~By Napoleon Hill ~
The lawlessness of frontier life in America has been pictured as a remarkable phenomenon. In reality, it was the natural consequence of indiscriminate mixing of volatile substances.
~By Paul Harris ~
A dream will always triumph over reality, once it is given the chance.
~By Stanislaw Lem ~
It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.
~By Vincent Van Gogh ~
Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash.
~By Cecil Beaton ~
No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by.
~By Franz Schubert ~
This industry is very make-believe and you caught in a false sense of what reality is.
~By Morris Chestnut ~
Reality doesn't bite, rather our perception of reality bites.
~By Anthony J. D'Angelo ~
It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection.
~By Edward Sapir ~
Let's say that, in reality, I'm basically very shy when it comes to men.
~By Donna Summer ~
It is reality that awakens possibilities, and nothing would be more perverse than to deny it.
~By Robert Musil ~
Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye, and deny it.
~By Garrison Keillor ~
Our thoughts create our reality - where we put our focus is the direction we tend to go.
~By Peter McWilliams ~
I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality.
~By Max Beckmann ~
We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.
~By Judy Garland ~
Create a world in which these things do or do not exist, or in which they are extended in some way. Test reality against this fiction. The reader will recognize the world that you're talking about, even though it may be another one altogether.
~By Theodore Sturgeon ~
Innovation is this amazing intersection between someone's imagination and the reality in which they live. The problem is, many companies don't have great imagination, but their view of reality tells them that it's impossible to do what they imagine.
~By Ron Johnson ~
The constraints of melodrama can be a great blessing, because they demand that all the characters involved - as absurd and extreme as they may initially seem - must stay utterly rooted in their own reality, or the whole project collapses.
~By Stanley Tucci ~
I know how sobering and exhausting parenthood is. But the reality is that our children's future depends on us as parents. Because we know that the first years truly last forever.
~By Rob Reiner ~
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.
~By Thor Heyerdahl ~
Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.
~By Albert Bandura ~
On the other hand, for the whole human being who wills, feels, and represents, external reality is given simultaneously and with as much certitude as his own self.
~By Wilhelm Dilthey ~
There is no reality of consciousness independent of the effects of various vehicles of content on subsequent action (and hence, of course, on memory).
~By Daniel Clement Dennett ~
And in reality, I don't think it's a real documentary. It's more a story of her life. It's a story of survival. It's a story of the time in which she lived. The story of success and failure.
~By Maximilian Schell ~
All my writing is about the recognition that there is no single reality. But the beauty of it is that you nevertheless go on, walking towards utopia, which may not exist, on a bridge which might end before you reach the other side.
~By Marguerite Young ~
I wrote a book called The Taste of New Wine because I couldn't find a book that talked about the reality of the situation and how we were dishonest and afraid.
~By Keith Miller ~
If you're going to establish a certain level of unreality than you have to deal with it.
~By Bill Sienkiewicz ~
Reality is whatever refuses to go away when I stop believing in it.
~By Philip K. Dick ~
In reality, we are all travelers - even explorers of mortality.
~By Thomas S. Monson ~
I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible.
~By Karl Jaspers ~
Since the election, since the formation of a government, the death in Iraq has increased. The United States stands by, helpless to do anything about it. That's the reality, not George Bush's revisionist history!
~By Mark Shields ~
For whatever a man has, is in reality only a gift.
~By Christoph Martin Wieland ~
When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.
~By Joyce Carol Oates ~
What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality.
~By Max Beckmann ~
The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy.
~By Max Jacob ~
Film is a dramatised reality and it is the director's job to make it appear real... an audience should not be conscious of technique.
~By David Lean ~
Poetry is the deification of reality.
~By Edith Sitwell ~
Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added to the constitution elevated expectations beyond reality in some respects.
~By Ed Smith ~
I had innumerable analysts who came to me in apology that the world that we were finding was not the world that they had thought existed and that they had estimated. Reality on the ground differed in advance.
~By David Kay ~
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