William Hughes Mearns Quotes

As I was sitting in my chair, I knew the bottom wasn't there, Nor legs nor back, but I just sat, Ignoring little things like that.

William Hughes Mearns

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• Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • American
  • Reality
  • Me

• Fantasy is like an idealized reality, and the core of fantasy is the one person can make a difference.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Reality
  • Make A Difference

• I just write mechanical things.

  

  Barry Zito
  • Things
  • Write
  • Just

• I'd done 'Peter Pan' in a little pre-K class or whatever.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Done
  • Class
  • Little

• A crime is like a crack in reality, and it is the author's role to explore those cracks. As a writer, I like to see how they impinge on people.

  

  Natsuo Kirino
  • People
  • Reality
  • Author

• That's the great thing about G.I. Joe: it's essentially superheroes, but it's military based - and it's based in reality.

  

  D. J. Cotrona
  • Great
  • Reality
  • Military

• The simple reality of life is that everyone is wrong on a regular basis. By confronting these inevitable errors, you allow yourself to make corrections before it is too late.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Simple

• We believe that Apple has it wrong: they've talked about it being the post-PC era, they talk about the tablet and PC being different; the reality in our world is that we think that's completely incorrect.

  

  B. Kevin Turner
  • World
  • Believe
  • Different

• I have no skills. I'm bad at most things.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Bad
  • Things
  • Skills

• I've been a staunch advocate of women's empowerment, and I've worked hard throughout my career to advance the cause. It is heartening to see that gender equality is really becoming more of a reality. There is still much more to be done, and I'm confident that, by working together, we can empower women worldwide.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Women
  • Done
  • Together

• The reality of marriage as the union of a mother and a father is grounded in our very biology.

  

  Salvatore J. Cordileone
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Reality

• When you're on a series that's been cancelled, there's a little bit of a stink on you.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • You
  • Little
  • Cancelled

• Blight is like a cancer. This is one of those all-or-nothing things.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Like
  • Things
  • Cancer

• I feel like the so-called bad guys are never totally bad. I guess it's the closest thing I can do to reality: people act nice but nobody really is nice. We all have to balance that with something dark.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • People
  • Bad
  • Reality

• When the gift I give to the other is integral to my own nature, when it comes from a place of organic reality within me, it will renew itself-and me-even as I give it away. Only when I give something that does not grow within me do I deplete myself and harm the other as well, for only harm can come from a gift that is forced, inorganic, unreal.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Nature
  • Reality

• The attempt to live by the reality of our own nature, which means our limits as well as our potentials, is a profoundly moral regimen.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Live
  • Nature
  • Reality

• What man needs is not just the persistent posing of ultimate questions, but the sense of what is feasible, what is possible, what is correct, here and now. The philosopher, of all people, must, I think, be aware of the tension between what he claims to achieve and the reality in which he finds himself.

  

  Hans-Georg Gadamer
  • People
  • Reality

• Some people think reality must be constantly depressing, but I think reality is something you rise above.

  

  Liza Minnelli
  • People
  • Reality

• One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike-and yet it is the most precious thing we have.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
  • Long
  • Science

• On one hand, my gender has never been an issue. The issue has always been what's on the page. But the reality is, an awful lot of women fought an awful lot of battles to get me to that place.

  

  Laeta Kalogridis
  • Women
  • Reality
  • Hand

• To keep your actions and your plans secret always has been a very good thing . .. Marcus Crassus said to one who asked him when he was going to move the army: 'Do you believe that you will be the only one not to hear the trumpet?

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Secret
  • Actions
  • Plans

• You see a documentary, you want to see it on Aerosmith or Jon Bon Jovi or Kiss, a band that's been established and sold millions of records and done something notable.

  

  John Corabi Mötley Crüe
  • Band
  • Records
  • Documentary

• As I was sitting in my chair, I knew the bottom wasn't there, Nor legs nor back, but I just sat, Ignoring little things like that.

  

  William Hughes Mearns
  • Reality
  • Things
  • Little