Famous Quotes & Sayings

Petrarch

Reality is always the foe of famous names.

James A. Baldwin

Color is not a human or a personal reality it is a political reality.

Dick Armey

Virtually all bad ideas come from universities, bad ideas that only survive when insulated from reality.

Diane Setterfield

I don't pretend reality is the same for everyone.

David Brooks

People want reality that tells them how right they are all the time.

David Brooks

If you just rely on one model, you tend to amputate reality to make it fit your model.

David Shields

To me, the moment you're talking about nonfiction you're talking about reality.

David Morrell

A thriller becomes great when it carries a feeling of reality and truth.

David Mitchell

Reality is the page. Life is the word.

Ian Watson

Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way.

Antoni Tapies

If one draws things in a manner which provides only the barest clue to their meaning, the viewer is forced to fill in the gaps by using his own imagination. He is compelled to participate in the creative act, which I consider very important.

Anthony Storr

Imagination flourishes best in solitude.

Anthony Storr

The ecstatic state of wholeness is bound to be transient because it has no part in the total pattern of ‘adaptation through maladaptation’ which is characteristic of our species…the hunger of imagination, the desire and pursuit of the whole, take origin from the realization that something is missing, from awareness of incompleteness.

Bill Vaughan

A mission could be defined as an image of a desired state that you want to get to. Once fully seen, it will inspire you to act, fuel your imagination and determine your behavior.

Bill Hicks

You are the imagination of yourself.

Bertrand Russell

If life is to be fully human it must serve some end which seems, in some sense, outside human life, some end which is impersonal and above mankind, such as God or truth or beauty. Those who best promote life do not have life for their purpose. They aim rather at what seems like a gradual incarnation, a bringing into our human existence of something eternal, something that appears to imagination to live in a heaven remote from strife and failure and the devouring jaws of Time.

Bertrand Russell

Without effort and change, human life cannot remain good. It is not a finished Utopia that we ought to desire, but a world where imagination and hope are alive and active.

Claudia Rankine

The American imagination has never been able to fully recover from its white-supremacist beginnings.

Benjamin Rush

In such a performance you may lay the foundation of national happiness only in religion, not by leaving it doubtful "whether morals can exist without it," but by asserting that without religion morals are the effects of causes as purely physical as pleasant breezes and fruitful seasons.

Gerald Anderson

I was thinking about leaving here, but not because of Fred,

Tom Gonsalves

I was upset because we have been in tougher situations than this, and we lost our composure. They were leaving the person they were guarding, and doing their own thing on defense.

Robert Earl

I think I'm ready. It'll be tough leaving school behind, but I think I'm ready for that phase of my life.

Todd Turner

I wish the legislators would see how much money is leaving the state.

Michael Woods

Give yourself plenty of time to get wherever you're going. If you're leaving at your normal time, you've left too late.

Chris Aguila

He wasn't leaving a lot of stuff over the plate.

Michelle Langsford

I have been with him from day one, and I was not leaving his side when he needed me most.

Lauren Emerson

I didn't want my teammates to feel like I was leaving them because I was injured.