Famous Quotes & Sayings

Conor Oberst

I prefer career artists that have spent time honing their craft, as opposed to, 'I won a karaoke contest on a reality show and now I have a record.' That's such a drag. The music that comes out of it is so poor.

Dan Buettner

The brutal reality about aging is that it has only an accelerator pedal. We have yet to discover whether a brake exists for people.

Dan Brown

Perception is transformed, and a new reality is born.

Dan Brown

Everyone thinks that religion is the ball and chain. But the reality is that sin is the ball and chain. A relationship with Christ is the freedom that people are looking for in alcohol and drugs.

David Friedrich Strauss

If God and man are in themselves one, and if religion is the human side of this unity then must this unity be made evident to man in religion, and become in him consciousness and reality.

David Foster

Gentlemen, welcome to the world of reality – there is no audience. No one to applaud, to admire. No one to see you. Do you understand? Here is the truth – actual heroism receives no ovation, entertains no one. No one queues up to see it. No one is interested.

David Foster Wallace

If you're automatically sure that you know what reality is and who and what is really important-if you want to operate on your default-setting-then you, like me, will not consider possibilities that aren't pointless and annoying.

David Foster Wallace

...the most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about.

David Foster Wallace

What the really great artists do is they're entirely themselves. They're entirely themselves, they've got their own vision, they have their own way of fracturing reality, and if it's authentic and true, you will feel it in your nerve endings.

David Cronenberg

For me, the first fact of human existence is the human body. But if you embrace the reality of the human body, you embrace mortality, and that is a very difficult thing for anything to do because the self-conscious mind cannot imagine non-existence. It's impossible to do.

Dave Attell

I don't watch reality TV.

Dave Attell

I have an imagination because my life is so boring that my imagination lets me get off the reality of what's going on.

David Lynch

The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.

David Haas

The mind may find unique ways to express what it conceives of reality, but reality remains unchanged by the mind's efforts.

David Charvet

I think it's a lot easier to put together a reality show than to actually create a scripted show.

Curtis Jackson

Reality is my drug. The more I have of it, the more power I get and the higher I feel

Daniel Suarez

Mammals of every species indulge in play. Games are Nature's way of preparing us to face difficult realities.

Daniel Suarez

Fact and fiction carry the same intrinsic weight in the marketplace of ideas. Fortunately, reality has no advertising budget.

Daniel Webster

The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

Andrew Lansley

In reality, we've had more spending, more bureaucracy, more waste and higher costs but without necessary reform nor rising productivity.

You do not have to imagine things; reality gives you all you need.

Andre Malraux

Here, reality is not subordinated to painting, indeed painting seems the handmaid of reality, though we feel it tending towards a procedure which, while not at the mercy of appearances, is not yet in conflict with them.

Andre Maurois

Information is not culture. In the mind of a truly educated person, facts are organized, and they make up a living world in the image of the world of reality.

... if fiction does not show us a better life than reality, what is the good of it?

Andrew Cuomo

Anyone who says there is not a change in weather patterns is denying reality.

Andrew Cuomo

I respect the state workers and I respect their unions, but we simply can't afford to pay benefits and pensions that are out of line with economic reality.

Ambrose Bierce

CARTESIAN, adj. Relating to Descartes, author of 'Cogito ergo sum' to demonstrate the reality of human existence. The dictum might be improved 'Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum' 'I think that I think, therefore I think that I am' as close an approach.

Ambrose Bierce

Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.

Anthony Hopkins

Living with reality is a very good trick. It gives you tremendous freedom and it changes the structure of molecules of your soul by living through reality because you don't expect anything anymore, which is a weird paradox.

Anthony Hopkins

There's no truth in acting, it's all a trick, because you go on stage in front of sets, you're on film - it's all a trick. I'm making it sound very - I really am demystifying it, but what I try to do, what I do, and I hope effectively, is to create a reality as if it is happening now, that you're fishing for words out of the air.

Anthony Hopkins

I have no illusions about my position in this world as an actor or anything like that. I'm very realistic. Reality is a very liberating thing.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Why is it that you can sometimes feel the reality of people more keenly through a letter than face to face?

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

To mention a loved object, a person, or a place to someone else is to invest that object with reality.