But the idea of a man making his living by writing seemed, in that hardy environment, so fantastic that even today I am sometimes myself assailed by a feeling of unreality. ~By Robert E. Howard ~
The problem is when you are writing something in retrospective, it needs a lot of courage not to change, or you will forget a certain reality, and you will just take in consideration your view today. ~By Boutros Boutros Ghali ~
The belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions. ~By Paul Watzlawick ~
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures. ~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
For years, reality has been nipping at the heels of satire. Now, it's finally caught up. I don't need to make this stuff up. ~By Paul Krassner ~
Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language. ~By Ludwig Wittgenstein ~
The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words. ~By Philip K. Dick ~
To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them! ~By Louis-Ferdinand Celine ~
Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work. ~By Lauryn Hill ~
At the time, acid made me consider questions of reality, the difference, as someone said, between words and silence. It also brought back a lot of latent religious feelings in me that I had turned my back on. ~By Robert Stone ~
It was taunted as reality. It was dangled as a carrot. In terms of people's hopes and dreams, to say that that is less of a reality than the daily grind they find themselves in is maybe not correct. ~By Martin Mull ~
Reality continues to ruin my life. ~By Bill Watterson ~
Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there. ~By J. G. Ballard ~
Aloneness is nearer God, nearer reality. ~By Gwen John ~
From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality. ~By Leon Trotsky ~
On the other hand, in a society whose communication component is becoming more prominent day by day, both as a reality and as an issue, it is clear that language assumes a new importance. ~By Jean-Francois Lyotard ~
Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception. ~By George Soros ~
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 ~
Even in the realest American cinema that I see, there's still not that sense that this is reality. There's still that sense that you are watching a movie. And hopefully, if we did get our jobs right, that sense disappears when you watch this movie. ~By Joshua Leonard ~
When you get on stage, you can be anything. You are removed from reality in a way, the real world. ~By Suzanne Farrell ~
We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear. ~By King Hussein ~
Fortunately, the war has brought with it not alone a stark realization of what another war would mean to the world, but as well the creation of an international agency through which the nations of the world can, if they so desire, make peace a living reality. ~By Cordell Hull ~
Let us live for the beauty of our own reality. ~By Charles Lamb ~
An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing. ~By Samuel Smiles ~
My reaction to a lot of the current situation that we're in is based in part on a serious concern that the present administration's course ignores reality. ~By Vinton Cerf ~
Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination. ~By Barbara Grizzuti Harrison ~
The reality is, it will be a significant conflict going for many, many months, if not longer. Saddam Hussein is not a fool. He hasn't been sitting there waiting to get shot for 13 years. ~By John Hewson ~
You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth. ~By Annie Leibovitz ~
Not being in tune with your customers is like living in an alternate reality; the way you think your customers feel about your product is not always the same as what your customers really think about your product. ~By Bo Bennett ~
Back in the day, if someone said that hip hop and rap was a fad, that was a joke to me because they just didn't know what they were talking about. In reality, there were so many people who didn't know what they were talking about it. ~By Jam Master Jay ~
Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality. ~By Jonas Salk ~
Reality in our century is not something to be faced. ~By Graham Greene ~
What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality. ~By Max Beckmann ~
I think, unfortunately or fortunately, the reality of Hollywood is that if your movie makes money, they'll make another one. ~By Jonathan Frakes ~
No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality. ~By Edward Sapir ~
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised. ~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
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 ~
Faith is the response to something which is calling us from the timeless part of our reality. ~By Sydney Carter ~
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. ~By Albert Einstein ~
Maybe entertainment is not supposed to be reality. ~By Victoria Jackson ~
To know reality is to accept it, and eventually to love it. ~By George Wald ~
Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives. ~By Robert Collier ~
Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair. ~By Alberto Giacometti ~
Reality: What a concept! ~By Robin Williams ~
Television studios bet the farm on reality shows, where they didn't need any actors and movie studios had no plans for any quality movies that required the presence of me. ~By Alfre Woodard ~
Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth. ~By Abraham Cahan ~
At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action. ~By Walter Pater ~
Most new jobs won't come from our biggest employers. They will come from our smallest. We've got to do everything we can to make entrepreneurial dreams a reality. ~By Ross Perot ~
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 ~
Well, you know, when people say stuff about you, it's always really flattering. But does it mean anything to me? It's not really real to me; there's no reality to it. ~By Paul Giamatti ~
I swear by that old expression, 'One monkey don't stop no show!' The reality is, we still have some good men out there, and we should hail those men as the kings they are. ~By Angie Stone ~
We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort. ~By Jesse Owens ~
In reality, the most important things happen when you don't look for them. ~By Phil Donahue ~
I think that reality TV is so bad. It is a tool by the media to not make people think. ~By Naveen Andrews ~
I learned a long time ago: You're in the entertainment business. You're not in the reality business. One has absolutely nothing to do with the other. ~By Dennis Farina ~
Documents create a paper reality we call proof. ~By Mason Cooley ~
Reality is something you rise above. ~By Liza Minnelli ~
I have always made an effort to render every detail of my reality with the greatest accuracy; but I have never paid attention to whether my presentation of historical facts was an exact one. ~By Lion Feuchtwanger ~
It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion. ~By Dean Inge ~
Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality. ~By Ovid ~
The reality is that no one can be forced to join a union against their will, and a union cannot take action against those who decide not to join their union. ~By Dan Lipinski ~
All of the problems we're facing with debt are manmade problems. We created them. It's called fantasy economics. Fantasy economics only works in a fantasy world. It doesn't work in reality. ~By Michele Bachmann ~
Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be - like the reality of yesterday - an illusion tomorrow. ~By Luigi Pirandello ~
Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society. ~By Edward Bond ~
The words are ludicrous at times, but you add the reality to it and that gives it the balance it has. ~By Alia Shawkat ~
We have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed. We believe that. ~By Barbara Jordan ~
I enjoy watching Fear Factor, Newlyweds and American Idol as far as reality TV shows go. ~By Natalie Gulbis ~
Sometimes, fear is good. Sometimes it's a good thing to have a little bit of a reality check. ~By Taylor Hanson ~
A dream will always triumph over reality, once it is given the chance. ~By Stanislaw Lem ~
The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable. ~By Andrea Dworkin ~
We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality. ~By Judy Garland ~
Reality isn't the way you wish things to be, nor the way they appear to be, but the way they actually are. ~By Robert J. Ringer ~
But reality television is here to stay. ~By Cilla Black ~
I see Christ as the incarnation of the piper who is calling us. He dances that shape and pattern which is at the heart of our reality. ~By Sydney Carter ~
In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality. ~By Harold S. Geneen ~
There comes a point when a dream becomes reality and reality becomes a dream. ~By Frances Farmer ~
The reality is that what you find out is that your head is the medicine. If your head is not in the right place and you don't think positively, all the medicine technology in the world is not going to work. ~By Herbie Mann ~
There can be no argument about the Lone Star State's significant contributions to American history, and we must remember the actions and the sacrifices of those who made Texas independence a reality. ~By Michael McCaul ~
Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand, leaves them at an imaginary level. ~By Manuel Puig ~
Reality is the leading cause of stress for those in touch with it. ~By Jack Wagner ~
I am just like 99% of my friends in France, who say on their resume they can speak fluent English. In reality, they can't even count up to three. ~By Greg Akcelrod ~
The reality is, some people don't want you to change or go anywhere different. ~By Kenneth Edmonds ~
Unfortunately, the reality was that, for political reasons or whatever, there was a need to enforce antidiscrimination laws, or at least there was a perceived need to do that. ~By Clarence Thomas ~
Our intention creates our reality. ~By Wayne Dyer ~
Sometimes the picture that emerges of the man seems no longer to agree with our conception of the musician. In reality, however, there is a glorious unity. ~By Alfred Einstein ~
Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited. ~By Gottfried Leibniz ~
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. ~
There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality. ~By Jonas Salk ~
Well, we all start thinking we're going to be Romantic rock stars, but then reality hits and you realize no one reads you but other poets. ~By George Murray ~
In the world of reality the more beautiful a work of art, the longer, we may be sure, was the time required to make it, and the greater the number of different minds which assisted in its development. ~By Lafcadio Hearn ~
To compete in a global economy, our students must continue their education beyond high school. To make this expectation a reality, we must give students the tools they need to succeed, including the opportunity to take a college entrance exam. ~By Jennifer Granholm ~
I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way. ~By Lady Gaga ~
I reject your reality and substitute my own. ~By Adam Savage ~
War is the ultimate reality-based horror show. ~By David Hackworth ~
Circumstances give in reality to every political principle, its distinguishing colour, and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind. ~By David Trimble ~
Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose. ~By Czeslaw Milosz ~
I think the reality is that, that money was probably badly spent. ~By Alan Hansen ~
In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality. ~By Karl Popper ~
Skin has become inadequate in interfacing with reality. Technology has become the body's new membrane of existence. ~By Nam June Paik ~
Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs. ~By Robin Williams ~
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