Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Hill

He provided the foundations of the park. All of the things that help give it that weird sense of reality are Fred's doing.

Jimi Hendrix

You have to use fantasy to show different sides to reality. That's how it can bend.

Jim Morrison

Let's just say I was testing the bounds of reality. I was curious to see what would happen. That's all it was curiosity.

Jim Morrison

There are images I need to complete my own reality.

Jim Morrison

Twentieth-century culture's disease is the inability to feel their reality. People cluster to TV, soap operas, movies, theater, pop idols and they have wild emotion over symbols. But in the reality of their own lives, they're emotionally dead.

Jim Morrison

Lets just say I was testing the bounds of reality.

Eric Friedman

We expect to make about 500,000-600,000 more. Our initial goal was one million, but in reality we will probably make a bit less.

Emma Watson

The reality is that if we do nothing it will take 75 years, or for me to be nearly a hundred before women can expect to be paid the same as men for the same work.

Haruki Murakami

The best way to think about reality, I had decided, was to get as far away from it as possible.

Haruki Murakami

The honour of physical decline is waiting, and you have to get used to that reality.

Ellen Page

Sometimes something will be happening in pop culture and a movie will be right there, so you'll have this perception that maybe the movie got there first. But in reality, culture gets there first.

Helena Bonham Carter

I liked pretending to be other people: I could reinvent myself, reinvent my own reality.

Johann Sebastian Bach

I was a microscopic life-form, infinitely large, stumbled backstage of its playhouse, caught a nanosecond glance of its own reality and nearly vaporized in shock.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.

Haruki Murakami

The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality.

Haruki Murakami

I was reduced to pure concept. My flesh had dissolved; my form had dissipated. I floated in space. Liberated of my corporeal being, but without dispensation to go anywhere else.I was adrift in the void. Somewhere across the fine line separating nightmare from reality.

Haruki Murakami

We're both looking at the same moon, in the same world. We're connected to reality by the same line. All I have to do is quietly draw it towards me.

Hans Urs von Balthasar

The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love.

Harlan Coben

Genius is a curse. That's how I look at it. Some think that the brilliant comprehend the universe in a way the rest of us can't. They see the world how it truly is—and that reality is so horrible the lose their minds. Clarity leads to insanity.

Hanan Ashrawi

Beyond the emotionalism and the obvious sense of relief on all sides, I think that there is a recognition that reality may intrude, that perhaps the steps ahead and the days ahead are going to be much more difficult than one expects.

John Lennon

Surrealism to me is reality. Psychedelic vision is reality to me and always was.

This is what we train for, ... However, it's going to be sad once we're there and see the reality of it all.

Cat Deeley

People will always want it [reality TV shows], if it's produced well and if it's telling people's stories - that's all anybody wants: to connect with another human being on a very basic level. If the stories are told well, I think it can continue and continue.

C. S. Lewis

Ye cannot know eternal reality by a definition. Time itself, and all the acts and events that fill time are the definition, and it must be lived.

Aberjhani

Within the universe of the extraordinary, those qualities we designate to human concepts of gender are often shared, exchanged, or even completely obliterated. Because of this mixture of traits, these twins called Genius and Madness often appear to be the same thing. They both have a tendency to blur the lines of what we call norms, or established reality. They both, when we study that grand tapestry known as history and modern-day society, tend to stand out in much bolder relief than other figures. -- from Dancing with Madness, Dancing with Genius

A. S. Byatt

One of the reasons I've gotten so attached to talking to scientists is that... they know there is a reality.

Adam Young

Reality is a lovely place, but I wouldn't want to live there.

David Bohm

If we can be cheered up by positive images we can be depressed by negative ones. As long as we accept images as realities we are in that trap, because you can't control the images.

David Bowie

The world that I inhabit in reality is probably very different world than the one people expect that I would be in. It is quite sedate. It's far removed from a lot of what they would feel to be the limousine traveling rock existence, or whatever.

David Eagleman

...you are battered and bruised in the collisions between reminiscence and reality.

David Eagleman

Our reality depends on what our biology is up to.

David Eagleman

Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.

David Bentley

To bracket form and finality out of one's investigations as far as reason allows is a matter of method, but to deny their reality altogether is a matter of metaphysics.