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.

David Troyer

Right now we're waiting on them and they're waiting on us.

Chris Ferris

This is one of the fundamental specifications the world has been waiting for,

Brian Austin Green

As of right now, I'm still waiting to meet Halle Berry. And she is single.

C. S. Lewis

If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work.

Craig Ferguson

I can't wait to see the debate between Ryan and Joe Biden. Biden is said to be already trying out different strategies. So far the one that Obama likes is where Biden pretends to have food poisoning and they cancel the debate.

Bradley Whitford

Infuse your life with action...

Eckhart Tolle

The ego is just waiting to identify with anything. Whether it's your misery or being a great meditator, it seeks some identification.

Charles Bukowski

there are so many days when living stops and pulls up and sits and waits like a train on the rails.

Charles Bukowski

I tell you such fine music waits in the shadows of hell.

Billy Thornton

There is a real fantasy with the American West, ... When you really make it big in Hollywood or on Wall Street, you want to fulfill that fantasy.

George Gurdjieff

Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he lives his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.

E. L. James

God forbid that women have fantasies.

Steven Spielberg

Well, luckily with animation, fantasy is your friend.

Meghan Ory

I'm a huge 'Harry Potter' fan. When you're acting, it's a fantasy already, maybe it's the costumes, I love it. It's so fun.

Jennifer Lopez

I like to maintain a certain sense of fantasy in my life.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory

Gurdjieff Gurdjieff

Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he ''lives'' his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.

Cassandra Clare

The more that you travel the more you get the sense of the word as a larger place and the more you get a sense of the variety of history and mythology. And when you know about these things you can incorporate them into what I feel is a more rich and more large tapestry of fantasy.