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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If you like to read, sometimes it's interesting just to go and see what the reality is, of the word, of the seedy or not so seedy fiction writer, the drunk or sober poet... Sometimes you can go looking for illumination.
Harold Brodkey -
Great champions have an enormous sense of pride. The people who excel are those who are driven to show the world and prove to themselves just how good they are.
Nancy Lopez -
I just do what's comfortable for me, whether it's getting fresh haircuts, or the clothes that I wear. It's simple; I'm just me. I don't really go out of my way. I do make sure my face is washed and moisturized, though.
Lance Gross -
I do not believe you have to be an elected official to help 'change the world.' In fact, maybe it is easier from the outside.
Chris Gabrieli -
When you go out of your country and meet people, you get a wider perspective.
Nadia Comaneci -
Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.
Wallace Stevens