Reality Quotes

• The number one ranked team is playing the number 10 ranked team. That's the reality.

  

  Dav Whatmore
  • Reality
  • Team
  • Ranked

• I wasn't a huge fan of reality shows, because I'm like 'they're taking away from the actors,' but sometimes mindless is just wonderful.

  

  Jenna Ushkowitz
  • Reality

• Fiction creating reality.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Reality
  • Fiction
  • Creating

• Artists can have greater access to reality; they can see patterns and details and connections that other people, distracted by the blur of life, might miss. Just sharing that truth can be a very powerful thing.

  

  Jay-Z
  • People
  • Life
  • Truth

• The reality is that being controversial generates attention for a little while, but it’s usually not good for your career in the long term.

  

  Alexandra Levit
  • Career
  • Reality
  • Attention

• To tear ourselves away from the everyday, from habit, from mental laziness which hides from us the strangeness of reality, we must receive something like a real bludgeon blow.

  

  Eugene Ionesco
  • Real
  • Blow
  • Laziness

• Art isn’t really about raw unmediated access to reality: that’s reality. You get that at the bus stop. Art is about interpreting reality, pointing up certain aspects of it, focusing attention.

  

  Elizabeth Bear
  • Reality
  • Attention
  • Bus stop

• We must set aside our wishes and give heed to reality. Nobody can accept the truth while hiding from it. When a decision matters, we have to stare at the truth unflinchingly. Only then can we find peace in our choices.

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Truth
  • Choices
  • Wishes

• I have totally hitched my wagon to the horse of storytelling, and the idea that none of us know why we're born, or why we're gonna die, or what we're planted here, or what's on the other side of the galaxy, or when time began, or when time end. The whole nature of reality is pretty up for grabs, really.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Storytelling
  • Galaxy
  • Wagon

• Do you know what happens when an Arabian woman dances? She does not dance: she protests, she loves, she cries, she makes love, she dreams, she goes away from her reality, to her own world, where love is really meant and she does not want to come back, because that is her reality.

  

  Armand Nassery
  • Dance
  • Comeback
  • Arabian Woman

• The reality is that when three or four networks are at the table with three or four political parties, someone is going to be the victim.

  

  Rick Mercer
  • Political
  • Party
  • Victim

• I'm sure 'Cosmo' will get involved with virtual reality at some point.

  

  Joanna Coles
  • Reality

• Reality depresses me. I need to find fantasy worlds and escape in them.

  

  Noel Fielding
  • Reality
  • Fantasy
  • Depresses

• Art comes into being in that abstract interval between a thought and reality, and no one - not even the artist who created it - can remeasure the influences that caused it.

  

  Edgar Alwin Payne
  • Art
  • Created
  • Influences

• I was very curious, that's why I think my reality TV seems normal. I watch a lot of reality TV because I am so interested in people and observing people. From a very young age I can remember watching a woman with a guy and she's rolling her eyes and he's pleading with her and I would think, she doesn't want to be with him, he's in love with her, she likes this other guy and I would make up these stories in my head about these people. That helps me sort of profile people and that is a key to being able to read people.

  

  Daniel Negreanu
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Remember

• Reality' is a word with many meanings.

  

  Peter Brook
  • Reality

• Modern reality has got such a hold on us that... when we attempt to reconstruct the ancient days in our thoughts...the minor events of our lives tear us away from our meditations, and... thrust us back into our personal [problems]

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Problem
  • Tears
  • Meditation

• If you want me to explain the picture, if you put it in reality, then the mystery goes away. The situation just catches you and you think it is absurd or mysterious and you just take the picture. You dont want to see the bare reality of what happened. I took the picture as the picture, not as the realistic story of what happened.

  

  Eva Fuka
  • Picture
  • Explain
  • Catches

• There's a very fine line between one person's reality and another person's fantasy.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Reality
  • Fantasy
  • Fine

• If one works well in a potato field, the potatoes will grow. If one works well among people, they will grow - that's reality. It's important to know that words don't move mountains. Work, exacting work moves mountains.

  

  Danilo Dolci
  • People
  • Important
  • Moving

• You have only a short period of time in your life to make your mark, and I'm there now.

  

  George Clooney
  • Reality
  • Periods
  • Mark

• The imagery is very much released from reality. It's not nailed down to specifics of the words. They're painting a picture, not telling linear stories.

  

  Daniel B. Shapiro
  • Painting
  • Imagery
  • Linear

• We have become a nation incapable of living within our means. We seem incapable of accepting the reality that owning a home is not and never was intended to be a right. It is a reward for working hard and saving up enough money to not only purchase a property, but to maintain and improve it.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Money
  • Home
  • Improve

• The teachers were focused on helping these students. The students benefited from hands-on teaching and a faculty who cared about them and their success in life and soon the students began to believe in themselves and the reality that they could make something of their lives.

  

  Michael N. Castle
  • Success
  • Teacher
  • Helping

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