Wallace Stevens Quotes
Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.Wallace Stevens
Quotes to Explore
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The great photographers of life - like Diane Arbus and Walker Evans and Robert Frank - all must have had some special quality: a personality of nurturing and non-judgment that frees the subjects to reveal their most intimate reality. It really is what makes a great photographer, every bit as much as understanding composition and lighting.
Caleb Deschanel -
Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
Warren Bennis -
Fantasy is like an idealized reality, and the core of fantasy is the one person can make a difference.
R. A. Salvatore -
When I first joined 'Dancing with the Stars,' I did not want to do it. It's not what I like, it's not what I believe in... the judges are fake, this is fake, that is fake... there is not a lot of reality.
Maksim Chmerkovskiy -
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
Oscar Wilde
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To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
Saint Augustine -
The reality is the world is a really, really big place, and there's a lot of people running around with a lot on their mind. And you really have to figure out how to build a company that can put on a message that can actually reach people and have an impact globally.
Marc Andreesen -
Why is it there are so many more horses' asses than there are horses?
G. Gordon Liddy -
In most cases, the news is not really news. But in some cases, discoveries are made and should be listened to.
Dan Shechtman -
'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.
Lance Reddick -
If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in which spatial reality is subject to mathematical laws, then these essential laws will be of most fertile significance in investigating facts of the conscious life of human and brute animals.
Edmund Husserl
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I am equally proud of all of my architectural projects. It's always rewarding to see an ambitious design become reality.
Zaha Hadid -
Every reality show plot pales in comparison to our history.
Rachel Skarsten -
For many years, I supported the concept of separate states.
F. W. de Klerk -
I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.
Parker Palmer -
I thought for a very long time that I had to conform or maybe change the way I look, or maybe the hijab was dimming my beauty. I took a moment, and then I realized, you know what, there's a lot of girls who do wear this, and this is their reality. It just made me even more prouder to wear it.
Halima Aden -
Tradition has made women cowardly.
Nance O'Neil
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I made one untitled piece.
Damien Hirst -
You cannot be responsible for Jim Crow. You can not be responsible for racism. This is much more a problem for the person exercising racism.You are confronted with the reality of racism when you go in the streets, when the eyes of others come upon you. [James] Baldwin goes back with you to all the experiences you went through and gives a name to them, and explains why it is like this.
Raoul Peck -
This whole 'tired footballers' and three-games-a-week thing is an absolute myth.
Gary Lineker -
I worked with President Obama on the Affordable Care Act and getting health coverage to all Americans. It was my legislation that said insurance companies can no longer deny coverage for kids with preexisting conditions.
Allyson Schwartz -
Baseball cannot be learned as a trade. It begins with the sport of the schoolboy, and though it may end in the professional, I am sure there is not a single one of these who learned the game with the expectation of making it a business. There have been years in the life of each during which he must have ate and drank and dreamed baseball.
John Montgomery Ward -
Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.
Wallace Stevens