Reality Quotes
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If you're drawing a Western town, you can duplicate that Western town from instinct alone. Some artists may take it from other illustrations or duplicate what you've drawn, but it will never have that gut reality that's instinctive in the artist.
Jack Kirby
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Do not, under any circumstances belittle a works of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth.
Azar Nafisi
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When you understand that making, saving, and spending money is all based on the thoughts you're thinking and the actions that these thoughts lead to, you can completely transform your reality - and your bank account.
Jen Sincero
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In an encounter with divine reality, we do not hear a voice but acquire a voice, and the voice we acquire is our own.
James P. Carse
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My head was spinning, I had never seen blood. Four years old, this don't feel like love.
LL Cool J
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Our civilization is first and foremost a civilization of means; in the reality of modern life, the means, it would seem, are more important than the ends.
Jacques Ellul
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For me, I always have to establish a reality for the character. In very actor-y terms, you just have to understand his reality.
Patrick Wilson
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When I was growing up in Virginia, the Civil War was presented to me as glorious with dramatic courage and military honor. Later, I realized how death was central to the reality. It was at the core of women's lives. It's what they talked about most.
Drew Gilpin Faust
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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
Marcel Proust
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I think hard times are coming. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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I swear by that old expression, 'One monkey don't stop no show!' The reality is, we still have some good men out there, and we should hail those men as the kings they are.
Angie Stone
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Since the initial publication of the chart of the electromagnetic spectrum, humans have learned that what they can touch, smell, see, and hear is less than one-millionth of reality. Ninety-
R. Buckminster Fuller
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I wonder if being sane means disregarding the chaos that is life, pretending only an infinitesimal segment of it is reality.
Rabih Alameddine
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Writing is just something I've always done. It's just kind of the reality of who I am.
Jesse Kellerman
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Keep an open mind and be ready to change and adapt to the situation. Don't ask reality to conform to your blueprint, but transform your blueprint to adapt to reality.
Lakhdar Brahimi
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The belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions.
Paul Watzlawick
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Most actors I know come from a screwed up background, so it makes sense that if you can walk on to a space and recreate your reality, then that's the place that will become very dear.
Peter Mullan
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In the spectrum of God's mysteries, preaching is a sacrament: Because of its sacramental reality some people have never again been the same.
John Hines
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All my writing is about the recognition that there is no single reality. But the beauty of it is that you nevertheless go on, walking towards utopia, which may not exist, on a bridge which might end before you reach the other side.
Marguerite Young
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I would say to those who don't like the metaphor This is reality.
Eliot Spitzer
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An optimist is somebody who thinks our various political and social systems, schools and churches, support groups and Boy Scout troops, jury trials and congressional committees, are on the up-and-up. That they are intended for the benefit of the members. The reality is that they are designed to keep everyone in line.
Jack McDevitt
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We have these images, these icons before us that are not reality.
Lauryn Hill Fugees
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Democrats refuse to deal with reality. They make things up, sensationalize common sense solutions, and exacerbate this obsession over political correctness.
Carlos Beruff
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The closeness of reality and the distance of myth, because if there is no distance you aren't amazed, and if there is no closeness you aren't moved.
Peter Brook