Aldous Huxley Quotes

The trouble with fiction… is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.

Aldous Huxley

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• People look at stuff like 'Godzilla' and 'Avengers' and think I only do blockbusters, or however you wanna put it, but in reality, I can make double or triple what I got paid for 'Avengers' by doing other stuff - there are other options, but I don't want to work with this person or that person, and so I don't do it.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • People
  • Work
  • Reality

• There's no mystery any more. So my instinct is to show very little, because there's much too much information about everyone, everywhere right now. Reality TV is an example of that.

  

  Feist
  • Reality
  • Information

• 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
  • Life
  • Great
  • Reality

• Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • People
  • Reality
  • Vision

• We use the term 'fight' very lightly - 'I've been fighting so hard to get my car, I've been fighting so hard to get that job, I've been fighting so hard to get that girl.' But the reality is boxers do fight bitterly to get whatever they want or whatever they need in life, and most of them come from nothing, which is the case of Roberto Duran.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Life
  • Job
  • Reality

• The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Love
  • Reality
  • Can

• Once you have perfect virtual reality, what else are you supposed to perfect?

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Reality
  • You
  • Perfect

• 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

• I'd like to do some crazy art installations and design some weird synthesizers and work with other people and make some fun stuff for a bit. Maybe tap into virtual reality stuff or maybe write another record... We'll see.

  

  Flume
  • People
  • Work
  • Art

• Human beings have a need, generally, to destroy things. The Freudian principle of civilisation is correct. There's always, always a difference between the family image and the reality.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Family
  • Reality
  • Difference

• Avoid sarcasm. Don't insist on the last word.

  Ford Frick
  • Word
  • Last
  • Sarcasm

• I knew it was time to get off of reality TV when someone asked me if I sang as well as acted.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Time
  • Reality
  • Me

• I believe that pop culture is just, like, so ready for 'Watchmen.' We tried so hard to ride that wave between satire and reality, and all the things that make you still care about the character, but you don't miss the commentary about them.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Believe
  • Character
  • Reality

• 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
  • Time
  • Long
  • Reality

• If reality shows are so popular, that means their viewers are screaming for more realness.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Reality
  • Popular
  • More

• In the end I didn't get a top car any more. I had no toughness left. That was the reality.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Reality
  • Car
  • End

• I always think that I have plenty of time for everything, and then the reality of it doesn't quite match up.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Up
  • Time
  • Think

• I just have this deep kind of connection to reality of being like... in a way, I feel like a dock worker. I want to stay in connection with my dock-worker side, 'cause that's how I grew up.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Up
  • Reality
  • Kind

• There's money, and then there's class. The two are often separated.

  

  Kate Jacobs
  • Education
  • Separated

• Yellow, mellow, ripened days, Sheltered in a golden coating; O'er the dreamy, listless haze, White and dainty cloudlets floating; Winking at the blushing trees, And the sombre, furrowed fallow; Smiling at the airy ease, Of the southward flying swallow Sweet and smiling are thy ways, Beauteous, golden Autumn days.

  

  Will Carleton
  • Sweet
  • Flying
  • Autumn

• A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Dog
  • Door
  • Wrong

• All Nine often used to come to me, I mean the Muses:But I ignored them: my girl was in my arms.Now I’ve left my sweetheart: and they’ve left me,And I roll my eyes, seeking a knife or rope.But Heaven is full of gods: You came to aid me:Greetings, Boredom, mother of the Muse.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Mother
  • Girl
  • Eyes

• You can't stay mad at somebody who makes you laugh.

  

  Jay Leno
  • Mad

• The trouble with fiction… is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Reality