Famous Quotes & Sayings

Susanne Bier

Oftentimes, reality is much worse than what you can put in a movie.

Bhagavad Gita

SAT is used in the sense of reality and goodness. The word 'SAT' is also used for an auspicious act, O Arjuna.

Abraham Lincoln

The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Alexis Herman

This is fundamentally a day about paychecks and reality checks, ... Where's my 26 cents?

Barbara Kingsolver

For scientists, reality is not optional.

Baruch Spinoza

Reality and perfection are synonymous.

Azar Nafisi

What we search for in fiction is not so much reality, but the epiphany of truth.

Azar Nafisi

Every fairy tale offers the potential to surpass present limits, so in a sense the fairy tale offers you freedoms that reality denies.

Ayn Rand

You who prattle that morality is social and that man would need no morality on a desert island - it is on a desert island that he would need it most. Let him try to claim, when there are no victims to pay for it, that a rock is a house, that sand is clothing, that food will drop into his mouth without cause or effort, that he will collect a harvest tomorrow by devouring his stock seed today - and reality will wipe him out, as he deserves; reality will show him that life is a value to be bought and that thinking is the only coin noble enough to buy it.

Jack Abramoff

Any ideas on how we can make sure she does not get it? Can you ping Karl on this?

Ben Silverman

The more ideas that pop, the more open to new ideas the American market is.

Sophia Collier

So much of being a success is perseverance as much as ideas,

Priscilla Howe

Say 'yes' to ideas that pop into your head. Don't screen them out. Go with the flow.

Joy Austin

I understand the power of this kind of an institution to improve the quality of life for people. I've worked in nonprofit, humanities-oriented projects all of my life. For me personally, the opportunity to support people's ideas is critical.

Alex Tew

The whole time though, I always imagined a day when I would be my own boss. It was just a question of being persistent, trying out new ideas and waiting for a breakthrough.

Paul Carvel

The writer's pen is to ideas what the net is to butterflies.

Nadine Lemmon

This is an important time for the public to get their input into the plan. If people have ideas of other trails, this is the time to put it on the map.

Wendy Johnson

This is an idea that has been suggested. It's been mentioned as one of several ideas that have been tossed about. It's no more of an idea than other ideas.

Al Franken

I'm from the Vietnam generation. I didn't serve.

Cullen Hightower

Older generations are living proof that younger generations can survive their lunacy.

David Perlmutter

Gluten is this Generation's Tobacco

Annie Dillard

In literary history, generation follows generation in a rage.

Annie Dillard

There were no formerly heroic times, and there was no formerly pure generation. There is no one here but us chickens, and so it has always been.

E. F. Schumacher

A way of life that ever more rapidly depletes the power of the Earth to sustain it and piles up ever more insoluble problems for each succeeding generation can only be called violent.

Thomas S. Monson

Can we somehow muster the courage and steadfastness of purpose that characterized the pioneers of a former generation? Can you and I, in actual fact, be pioneers [today]?

Susan Sontag

Each generation has to reinvent spirituality.

Simon Le Bon

Music is not supposed to be nationalist. It is supposed to surpass language barriers. It is about generations communicating with each other.