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

• What I’m trying to make you know, not in your forebrain but in your marrow, is that reality never conforms very well to the textbooks, and sometimes it doesn’t conform at all.

  

  Poul Anderson
  • Trying
  • Reality

• I'm not familiar particularly with Hillary Clinton's neighborhood, but I wish people were a little bit more curious about what we call privilege and about why it's there. Black people in this country have no choice but to be curious. We have to know. I wish folks would do a little bit more investigation.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Country
  • Why

• I grew up in north Norfolk, which certainly used to have an enormous sense of community. There are more and more second homes there now, so I'm not sure how that has damaged it. But where I live in South London, there is a beautiful community; it's the friendliest place I have ever lived, which comes as a surprise to non-Londoners.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Up
  • Live
  • Beautiful

• One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Fear
  • Action
  • Take

• Ladies and gentlemen of this Assembly, the decision is ours. Never have the nations of the world had so much to lose, or so much to gain. Together we shall save our planet, or together we shall perish in its flames. Save it we can - and save it we must - and then shall we earn the eternal thanks of mankind and, as peacemakers, the eternal blessing of God.

  

  John F. Kennedy
  • World
  • God
  • Together

• 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