Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gertrude Stein

A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.

Gertrude Stein

Language as a real thing is not imitation either of sounds or colors or emotions it is an intellectual recreation and there is nopossible doubt about it and it is going to go on being that as long as humanity is anything.

Gertrude Stein

... there is no point in being realistic about here and now, no use at all not any, and so it is not the nineteenth but the twentieth century, there is no realism now, life is not real it is not earnest, it is strange which is an entirely different matter.

Gerard Way

'Watchmen' is a politically charged story, and it explores exactly what a hero is, how the world would treat them and how they would react. It was the first time I read a superhero story that explored that situation. These are very real people with very real problems.

Hayden Panettiere

I'm just afraid somebody's going to stab me one day and think that my power is real and they expect me to start healing.

Havelock Ellis

Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing.

Hayao Miyazaki

When I say I get inspiration from my real life, I think of my real life as extending about 300 meters radius around me. So what I see in that area is what inspires me.

Hayao Miyazaki

Chihiro, huh? Her real name's Chihiro? Can't beat the power of love.

Hayao Miyazaki

Almost all Japanese animation is produced with hardly any basis taken from observing real people, you know. It's produced by humans who can't stand looking at other humans. And that's why the industry is full of otaku!

Hayao Miyazaki

Virtual reality is a denial of reality. We need to be open to the powers of imagination, which brings something useful to reality. Virtual reality can imprison people.

Hayao Miyazaki

Reality is for people that lack imagination.

Hans-Georg Gadamer

The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.

Hans-Georg Gadamer

What man needs is not just the persistent posing of ultimate questions, but the sense of what is feasible, what is possible, what is correct, here and now. The philosopher, of all people, must, I think, be aware of the tension between what he claims to achieve and the reality in which he finds himself.

Hans-Georg Gadamer

The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that its real being consists in what is said in it.

Hans Blix

There was a very consistent creation of a virtual reality, and eventually it collided with our old-fashioned, ordinary reality.

Hans Magnus Enzensberger

The reality in which a camera turns up is always posed, e.g., the moon landing.

Hans Kung

I am firmly convinced that there is life after death, not in a primitive sense but as the entry of my completely finite person into God's infinity, as a transition into another reality beyond the dimension of space and time that pure reason can neither affirm nor deny.

Hans Hofmann

The plastic artist may or may not be concerned with presenting a superficial appearance of reality, but he is always concerned with the presentation - if not the representation - of the plastic values of reality.

Hans Christian Andersen

The naive was only a part of my fairy tales; humor was the real salt in them.

Hans Christian Andersen

I have gone through the most terrible affair that could possibly happen; only imagine, my shadow has gone mad; I suppose such a poor, shallow brain, could not bear much; he fancies that he has become a real man, and that I am his shadow.

Hal Rothman

No one thinks Las Vegas is real; it is illusion, but visitors willingly suspend disbelief and pretend.

Hal Borland

The longer I live and the more I read, the more certain I become that the real poems about spring aren't written on paper. They are written in the back pasture and the near meadow, and they are issued in a new revised edition every April.

Greta Van Susteren

I think people loosely use the term 'free speech.' If the market wants to be such that people don't want to watch someone, so be it.

Greta Garbo

Life would be so wonderful if we only knew what to do with it.

Gordon B. Hinckley

It is not so much the major events as the small day-to-day decisions that map the course of our living. . . Our lives are, in reality, the sum total of our seemingly unimportant decisions and of our capacity to live by those decisions.

Giuseppe Verdi

It may be a good thing to copy reality; but to invent reality is much, much better.

Giuseppe Verdi

It is better to invert reality than to copy it.

Glen Cook

The only characters I've made to resemble real people have been grotesques.

Gladys Taber

The real evidence of growing older is that things level off in importance.

Gladys Taber

the real evidence of growing older is that things level off in importance ... Days are no longer jagged peaks to climb; time is a meadow, and we move over it with level steps.

Gerry Adams

It's been a long time coming but the reality is that this process is at a crossroads.

Gerry Adams

A real possibility now exists for a Government that is not led by either Fine Gael or Fianna Fáil

Georges St-Pierre

Your body can dictate your mind, so when I walk to a fight a lot of times I'm scared, I'm scared to death, I have a lot of doubts of myself, I'm afraid to fail, I'm afraid to be humiliated in front of everybody; but what happens, I act like it's impossible for me to fail and that my victory is a certainty. So as I'm walking to the Octagon and I act with confidence my body takes over my mind and I become confident for real. As I'm walking I see the change in my mind and when I reach the Octagon I'm a different person, I'm very confident.