Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Brian Tracy

The Law of Concentration states that whatever you dwell upon, grows. The more you think about something, the more it becomes part of your reality.

Brian Bosworth

You see 'awesome' and I see 'lost.' It's very easy to lose touch with reality when you've got that many people thinking you are more than you really are.

Boyd Rice

Nature is typified by strength; humanity by weakness. Nature adheres to an immutable order; humanity to an ever-increasing chaos. Nature recognizes no equality at any level of it's order; humanity preaches an all-prevasive equality and freely hands-out unearned "rights" in an attempt to make its doctrine a living reality. In short: humanity is Democratic, nature is Fascist.

Jane Hirshfield

Poetry's task is to increase the available stock of reality, R P Blackmur said.

Susan Sarandon

Do you really have to be the ice queen intellectual or the slut whore? Isn't there some way to be both?

Boman Irani

Chilli ice cream doesn't taste bad. But I wouldn't eat it again.

Glenn Thiel

We should have been able to ice them away when we had them. We had the shots we wanted at the end but couldn't get anything out them.

Andy Goldsworthy

When it does get below freezing and there is - it's cold enough for ice to form, then that changes the whole landscape, and it makes the landscape a different landscape to the one that I worked with previously. And I want to understand that. But the big tension of the ice works is that they're often made when it's cold enough to freeze one piece of ice to another.

Drew Barrymore

I am obsessed with ice cubes. Obsessed.

Dr. Dre

I got Ice Cube his start. I also launched Eazy-E.

Del Shannon

I eat ice cream. It's better than booze.

Debi Thomas

I just thought that it was magical having to glide across the ice.

Angela Ruggiero

When you look back from your Olympic experience, you never want to question whether you could have done more. The one thing you can control is your off-ice preparation.

Andy Borowitz

Let's not let a few dumb things Mitt Romney said in private overshadow the many idiotic things he's said in public.

Sir Mix-a-Lot

Cuz the 808 kick drum makes the girlies get dumb.

Norman Foster

The pencil and computer are, if left to their own devices, equally dumb and only as good as the person driving them.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

No one is dumb who is curious.

Neil Gaiman

The world is always ending, and the end is always being averted, by love or foolishness or just plain old dumb luck.

Lisa Kudrow

Life's a lot easier when you're dumb.

John O'Hara

But whats the use of being old if you cant be dumb?

Mario Andretti

I don't have many superstitions, just dumb things I don't talk about. I will not sign an autograph with a green pen.

Marilyn Manson

We are the things and shapes to come, your freedom's not free of dumb.