Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kingman Brewster, Jr.

Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.

Kevin Systrom

I’m always in awe of people who are artists in their fields – people who understand that simply by taking ideas and translating them into reality, they’ve created value in the world.

Michael Fassbender

Even if I'm playing a superhero, it has to be steeped in reality.

Michael Bloomberg

The cold harsh reality is that we have to balance the budget.

Melissa McCarthy

In terms of threshold, as long as it's based in reality, you can go pretty far, as long as you buy that it's really happening.

Melinda Gates

When we better understand the realities of these women's lives, we are able to design and deliver solutions that are more useful to them.

Melissa McBride

Ironing is a great diversion from the reality you dont want to face.

Michelle Bachelet

Gender equality must become a lived reality

Michele Bachmann

All of the problems we're facing with debt are manmade problems. We created them. It's called fantasy economics. Fantasy economics only works in a fantasy world. It doesn't work in reality.

Michael Steinhardt

The hardest thing over the years has been having the courage to go against the dominant wisdom of the time to have a view that is at variance with the present consensus and bet that view. The hard part is that the investor must measure himself not by his own perceptions of his performance, but by the objective measure of the market. The market has its own reality. In an immediate emotional sense the market is always right so if you take a variant point of view you will always be bombarded for some time by conventional wisdom as expressed by the market.

Michael Huffington

When we die our money, fame, and honors will be meaningless. We own nothing in this world. Everything we think we own is in reality only being loaned to us until we die. And on our deathbed at the moment of death, no one but God can save our souls.

Megan Fox

What distracts me from my reality is bigfoot. They are my celebrities.

Maynard Webb

There's never been a better time to change the way you think. Replace every 'I can't' with 'How can I?' It might sound like semantics, but I promise it will bring whatever you want to accomplish much closer to becoming a reality.

Max Lucado

We live in the most multicultural, multiracial, multiethnic America ever, and I get the sense that because of that reality so many of us are turning nativist.

Max Lucado

The secret of loving is living loved.

May Sarton

One has only to set a loved human being against the fact that we are all in peril all the time to get back a sense of proportion. What does anything matter compared to the reality of love and its span, so brief at best, maintained against such odds?

Max Jacob

What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion.

Max Jacob

The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy.

Max Ernst

Painting is neither decorative amusement, nor the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

Max Ernst

Collage is the noble conquest of the irrational, the coupling of two realities, irreconcilable in appearance, upon a plane which apparently does not suit them.

Max Frisch

I have no words for my reality.

Maureen Corrigan

Reality TV, blogging and self-publishing are all evidence of a society's or culture's desire to be more public. And that's a sign of a healthy or energetic culture.

Maurice Allais

Anyone who dares to speak about an aether is regarded as an ignorant and backward mind and he can only lose his credibility in scientific circles, although in reality those who criticize him use the same concept of intermediate medium in other words, whether it be fields, an associated fluid, a probability fluid, a pilot fluid, a quantum fluid, etc.

Maurice Ager

We noticed that, but in reality we have to take it one game at a time.

Maureen O'Hara

It turns out that our notions of what a 'self' is and how it might feel fulfilled have no more objective status than most of the rest of reality. It seems we make ourselves up as we go along.

Maureen Johnson

I could pretend, at least, and if I pretended long enough, maybe I could make it into a reality.

Matt LeBlanc

The majority of my background is multi-camera format, which is very broad and a very arch perception of reality. Whereas single camera tends to be more truthful and a little more intimate of a medium. Friends was an education in intelligent comedic banter; in intelligent vernacular. It was an education in scene study. It was an education in group dynamic. I came out of there with a masters degree in comedy.

Maya Angelou

It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can't do anything with that except do it.

Maurice Sendak

there is no such thing as fantasy unrelated to reality

Matthieu Ricard

Confidence is closely linked to how well our perceptions match reality

Matt Taibbi

It may be that America has become too big and complicated for most people to deal with being part of. People are longing for a smaller, stupider reality.

Meg Rosoff

I was pretty far gone, but not so far gone that I thought anyone with half a toehold in reality would think what we were doing was a good idea.

May Sinclair

Knowing reality is knowing that you can't lose it.