Famous Quotes & Sayings

Slash

The only difference is that, in the last 10 years, the public has been so affected by reality TV and the Internet. They really dwell on entertainers' misgivings.

Slavoj Zizek

In order effectively to liberate oneself from the grip of existing social reality, one should first renounce the transgressive fantasmatic supplement that attaches us to it.

Slavoj Zizek

I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it.

Slavoj Zizek

As soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions from reality, reality itself loses its discursive-logical consistency.

Slavoj Zizek

Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction.

Sloane Crosley

Our brains are like bonsai trees, growing around our private versions of reality.

Siobhan Fahey

This is what I am. I have periods of enormous self-destructive depression, where I go completely off my trolley and lose all sight of reality and reason.

Sinead O'Connor

Look at all our old men in pubs. Look at all our young people on drugs.

Rajneesh

Zen has no theory. It is a non-theoretical approach into reality. It has no doctrine and no dogma - hence it has no church, no priest, no pope.

Rajneesh

Darkness is the absence of light. Absences do not exist. Sin does not exist .

Rajneesh

Zen is all-inclusive. It never denies, it never says no to anything; it accepts everything and transforms it into a higher reality.

Rajneesh

We where created to discover Love - the only reality.

Rajneesh

Passing through the fire of meditation, everything that is not your authentic reality, everything that is borrowed, will be burned away.

Mercedes McCambridge

My anger made me drink as an escape from reality, a way of forgetting. But you don't know when the medicinal effect ends and the poisoning begins ... This is my sixth year of sobriety. Overcoming alcoholism has been my greatest challenge and my greatest reward.

Michelle Rodriguez

Guys are so predictable. They can't seem to separate fantasy from reality, so I get a lot of bikers and race car drivers hitting on me. They're all just playboys, so they don't interest me.

Michael Sheen

We live in a bubble of the fantasy of death, but the reality of it is something that we obviously all face and have to deal with, at some point.

Michael Shermer

Believers can have both religion and science as long as there is no attempt to make A non-A, to make reality unreal, to turn naturalism into supernaturalism. (125)

Michael Mori

The reality is Hicks is facing an unfair justice system that is not tolerated anywhere else in the world, so where does that leave him

Michael Medved

It makes no sense at all to try to deny the reality of Jewish power and prominence in popular culture. Any list of the most influential production executives at each of the major movie studios will produce a heavy majority of recognizably Jewish names.

Michael Moore

I take much of the attacks and the criticism toward me as being very class-based, but as Americans we don't like to acknowledge that reality.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Not to mention, we’re using you for bait. (Syn) Are you that drunk? (Nykyrian) What? I wasn’t supposed to tell her that? (Syn) I’m bait? (Kiara) No, you’re not bait. Ignore the alcoholic whose view of reality is distorted by his brain-damaged hallucinations. (Nykyrian)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

People make their own reality. That was what Praxis had taught him years ago. A hundred people can witness the exact same event, and give two hundred and three different accountings of it.

John Quincy Adams

Duty is ours, results are God's.

John Paxson

I do like our young talent here, but it needs to get better. And we need some better veterans if we can go out and get them. We all get discouraged by losing. I sit there every game and see the little things that happen and you feel like they cost you games. But the reality is that we are still some time away from being what I hope we can be. And that's going to take some good decision-making on our part.

Norman Douglas

How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.

Norman Granz

I don't say that the supposed Civil Rights development is a myth, but it's a matter of dealing with reality. It's purely peripheral and, in many cases, it's just a facade.

Nitin Nohria

Great leaders are pragmatists who can deal with difficult realities but still have the optimism and courage to act.

Niles Eldredge

And it has been the paleontologist- my own breed-who have been most responsible for letting ideas dominate reality: ...We paleontologist have said that the history of life supports that interpretation [gradual adaptive change], all the while knowing that it does not.

Mitch Albom

If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's going to happen anyhow.

Mike Yaconelli

Im unfinished. Im unfixed. And the reality is thats where God meets me is in the mess of my life, in the unfixedness, in the brokenness. I thought he did the opposite, he got rid of all that stuff. But if you read the Bible, if you look at it at all, constantly he was showing up in peoples lives at the worst possible time of their life.

Mike White

You feel a little weird, as a writer of scripted television for many years, to say you're a fan of reality TV. You feel like a traitor. But I am a total fan.

Mike Tyson

Being in the ring became my reality, and, in my reality, I'd think I was someone special.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Imagination alone is not enough, because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything we can imagine