Reality Quotes

When you do reality, you have to be pretty careful. You have to almost monitor yourself to make sure that you don't get yourself in situations that you shouldn't [be in].

Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style.

I have always been a fan of reality by majority vote.

Truthiness is what you want the facts to be as opposed to what the facts are. What feels like the right answer as opposed to what reality will support.

Unfortunately, too many executives believe the myths about trust. Myths like how trust is soft and is merely a social virtue. The reality is that trust is hard-edged and is an economic driver.

Life is sometimes novel-shaped, mocking the efforts of those authors who, in an effort to make their novels life-shaped, spurn the easy symmetry and cheap resonance of reality.

Time slowed and reality bent; on and on the eggman went.

Writing is like a little hole in reality that you can go through and you can get out and you can be someplace else for a while.

When a band means a lot to you, you build the fantasy more than the reality. Always.

Culture is always the echo of economic realities; that's what Marx teaches. Feminism is a clear example of that.

The fall from your dream into reality is especially hard when you've seen that you can fly.

The law is where reality goes to die.

Big comedy is good, I like things that are big, but good comedy has to be truthful I think and has to reflect some sort of reality.

We hate to be cheering for high gas prices. The reality is that's what's happening.

If you experience chronic difficulties in a particular area of your life, there's a strong chance that the root of the problem is a failure to accept reality as it is.

John Kerry's campaign attacks on gas prices ignore the reality of Kerry's long record of supporting higher gas prices and blocking the president's comprehensive energy plan.

I don't have a great respect for reality or getting the 'facts' as a means of putting together a story.

The reality is that these cases are happening all the time. It's when they get out of control that you have a problem.

I love Christmas music and there's nothing like getting together with friends at Christmas time to celebrate with music the incredible reality of the Savior's birth.

The element which is conveniently missing from today's Republican Party is the human one. People's hopes and realities become numbers and words, devoid of personality and easy to erase.

To me, comedy is just twisting reality. It's commenting or observing or twisting life.

Now some folks say that we should be glad for what we have. Tell me, would you be happy in Village Ghetto Land?

They build machines they can't control, and bury the waste in a great big hole.

One of my principal concerns is the contradiction between appearance and reality - illusion and reality. I try to set up an expectation of sorts and then contradict it.

I think we should know about candidates desires and views, but I think it would be a mistake to assume that they will become reality.

The reality is the majority of people are talking about it, but haven't launched it.

There is an automatic assumption that negative is realistic and positive is unrealistic.

There is not an inherent contradiction between a Ukraine that has longstanding historic and cultural ties to Russia, and a modern Ukraine that wants to integrate more closely with Europe.

That even an apocalypse can be made to seem part of the ordinary horizon of expectation constitutes an unparalleled violence that is being done to our sense of reality, to our humanity.

Ours is an age which consciously pursues health, and yet only believes in the reality of sickness.

The question of the social uses of photography opens out into the very largest issues of the self, of the relationship to community, to reality.

Do you believe in fate?" "I guess, but . . . its more about creatng the life you want so you can make that fate a reality. You know?

There isn't a part of our lives that money doesn't touch - it affects our relationships, the way we go about our everyday activities, our ability to make dreams reality, everything.

Every rep I did on chin-ups, on squats with 500 pounds, I never said, to myself, 'Oh, my God, another rep.' I said, 'Yes, another rep, because that will make my dream turn into a reality.'

Sometimes I wanted to believe something so badly, I deliberately manufactured excuses and ignored painful reality.

I need the reality of other people, work, to fulfill myself. Must never become a mere mother and housewife.

Humankind cannot stand reality.

When we mistake words for reality, we are subject to the tyranny of words.

I don't really understand what the public perception of me is. I think public perception and reality are two wholly different things.

Testing her sexuality, she thinks she's caught a beautiful fish, when in reality, she's netted a shark.

My sister is 16 and I tell her to take risks. Really explore and meet as many people as you can. Do as much as you can before reality kicks in. Have fun.

Any Republican, especially any conservative, expects the media to be hostile. That's just the reality of being a Republican. You've got to be prepared to deal with that.

I act for the reality, for the moment, and most of all I do it for the process.

The novelist can't successfully depict such horrifying reality. But she can, and must, try, to bear witness. There are many ways of doing this; the mode I prefer is indirect.

If reality is code, then it can be hacked in some way that we had not suspected before.

Psychedelics are actually a kind of miraculous reality that can stand the test of objective examination.

What is revealed through the psychedelic experience, I think, is a higher dimensional perspective on reality. And I use 'higher dimensional' in the mathematical sense.

Closure is a neurotic and infantile demand to make upon reality, other people, or language.

For me, what all these years of psychedelic taking came to was a new model of how reality works, a new model of what the world is.

I wasn't at all sure I could make that sort of leap into that sort of comic book reality.