Reality Quotes
They have hyped up HIV into this super-rapist but in reality the damn thing can hardly get an erection.
Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairy-tale artist, you have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere. You have to know the material you're writing about before you alter it.
When someone starts talking to me about the truth, what I hear is what they're telling me about themselves.
That's the reality of it. Everybody has a big two or three. The health of those big two or three ... there's a lot riding on it.
Human vision is endowed with the greatest Reality, since it comes to us directly from the contemplation of the Universe.
The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass.
The creation of a virtual image is a form of accident. This explains why virtual reality is a cosmic accident. It's the accident of the real.
Desert being the essential condition of praise, there can be no reality in the one without the other.
We want everyone to prepare themselves for the reality that we are not going to be able to recover significant numbers of people.
I talk about acting to students making the transition from high school to UCLA. Kids going into this profession really need to know the reality of it.
People are recognizing that I am an entrepreneur and do more than be on a reality TV show.
I think one of the major things a director has to do is to know his subject matter, the subject matter of his script, know the truth and the reality of it. That's very important.
Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
..if the beginning of the thought or theory is not rooted in reality, the end or the final results of such a thought or theory could well be disastrous in practice.
The Way of Tea lies in studying the ceremony, in understanding the principles, and in grasping the reality of things. These are its three rules.
I say 'Out' to every negative thought that comes to my mind. No person, place, or thing has any power over me, for I am the only thinker in my mind. I create my own reality and everyone in it.
Reality is, I'm an actor and an entertainer, and I really wouldn't know what to do with another profession.
Even when your dream that you set out comes true, it's not always perfect, and there isn't always the kiss at the end, and we all get to live happily ever after. That's not the reality of life.
That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the unreflecting slaves of custom.
I like imagination -- and the way I think things could be, had been, or should be -- better than reality.
Averages don't always reveal the most telling realities. You know, Shaquille O'Neal and I have an average height of 6 feet.
All of the problems we're facing with debt are manmade problems. We created them. It's called fantasy economics. Fantasy economics only works in a fantasy world. It doesn't work in reality.
Notice, for example, that people who talk about "the joys of childhood" are always adults. Only an adult, utterly remote from the reality of childhood, could suppose it is time of joys.
Things are neither clear nor clean in the world of football right now and many people recognise this reality.
Lastly get emotionally connected to your story so you can deliver it, you know, if you can't deliver the emotions to your script there's no point to your story. Story is the key.
The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential.
Philosophers, especially metaphysicians, explore features of reality and of our mental life that are different from those explored by scientists.
Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society.
Reality has always proved to be much more sophisticated and subtle than any preconceived philosophy.
The river of time may fork into rivers, in which case you have a parallel reality and so then you can become a time traveler and not have to worry about causing a time paradox.
Even one kid going hungry in America is one too many. How can we stand by when the reality is that there are more than 12 million underfed children in the U.S.? We can make a difference.
I suffer from Irish-Catholic guilt. Guilt is a good reality check. It keeps that ‘do what makes you happy’ thing in check.
I am ashamed to admit I watch a lot of reality shows like The Osbournes and The Bachelor.
It would be nice if we could design a virtual reality in Hyperbolic Space, and meet each other there.
Because I tend to kind of hide under the sheets when it comes to reality television. I've seen probably one episode of maybe five different shows, and that's about it.
For too many women pregnancy is just the start of loneliness and abuse. It is a cruel reality.
Sentimentality is a basking in feelings that in reality you don't take seriously enough to make the slightest sacrifice to or ever translate into action.
We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet it is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.