Reality Quotes

I think because I try to keep things as real as I can, or I try to start from a place of reality, I almost don't have the imagination to write a book that's not set where I am.

~ Maria Semple

Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera, the whole exercise is about imagination. You're constantly depicting something that doesn't exist, and trying to find the reality of it. Once you settle on that premise, everything else is a matter of degrees.

~ Ron Perlman

Imagination is Reality Lite - a useful substitute when the real pleasure is inaccessible, too risky, or too much work.

~ Paul Bloom

All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.

~ Wislawa Szymborska

I feel like the Internet needs to be disarmed in some way. There needs to be a philosophical undermining of the Internet. We take it too seriously and too literally. For a reference we go to Wikipedia, which is full of inaccuracies and misinformation. It's kind of beautiful - it's all the product of imagination; it's not reality at all.

~ Sufjan Stevens

I have an imagination because my life is so boring that my imagination lets me get off the reality of what's going on.

~ Dave Attell

What art is, in reality, is this missing link, not the links which exist. It's not what you see that is art; art is the gap.

~ Marcel Duchamp

While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.

~ Odilon Redon

How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?

~ Lou Reed

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Art must take reality by surprise.

~ Françoise Sagan

I know I said I wanted to live forever and I would never be bored, but the reality is, it's probably kind of sad to live forever if you're the only one sticking around.

~ Viggo Mortensen

It is a sad but undeniable reality that people have died in the line of duty since the earliest days of the United Nations. The first was Ole Bakke, a Norwegian member of the United Nations guard detachment, shot and killed in Palestine in 1948. The toll since then has included colleagues at all levels.

~ Ban Ki-Moon

The sad reality is that there are no purely domestic issues in Israel. Issues that would be dealt with by municipalities in other countries - such as how to deal with a dangerous bridge or how to resolve conflicts between religious and secular bus riders - become major international issues when they occur in Israel.

~ Alan Dershowitz

Budget cuts are a sad reality in most newsrooms, and I am concerned that they reduce the collective muscle of journalists who are doing the expensive, and often dangerous, work of on-the-ground reporting.

~ Jill Abramson

Our intuition about the future is linear. But the reality of information technology is exponential, and that makes a profound difference. If I take 30 steps linearly, I get to 30. If I take 30 steps exponentially, I get to a billion.

~ Ray Kurzweil

In virtual reality, we're placing the viewer inside a moment or a story... made possible by sound and visual technology that's actually tricking the brain into believing it's somewhere else.

~ Chris Milk

Virtual reality is a technology that could actually allow you to connect on a real human level, soul-to-soul, regardless of where you are in the world.

~ Chris Milk

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

~ Richard P. Feynman

Skin has become inadequate in interfacing with reality. Technology has become the body's new membrane of existence.

~ Nam June Paik

Readers probably haven't heard much about it yet, but they will. Quantum technology turns ordinary reality upside down.

~ Michael Crichton

The arc of technology is in the direction of unbreakable encryption, and no laws are going to get in the way of that reality.

~ Michael Hayden

My father was a soldier. He was a frogman in the special forces in Denmark before I was born, and always the reality of that inspired me. My mom is very left-wing, classic socialist, and she always talked about the solders as almost crazy, violent, sick people, and I want to confront that because its very judgmental, and I'm not sure it's true.

~ Tobias Lindholm

People were fed up with reality shows about midgets getting married and weird Jerry Springer talk shows. There had been a real dry spell of intelligent family-oriented viewing: the type of program that Mom, Dad and the kids can all watch together. With 'Lost,' there are just so many characters for people to invest in.

~ Evangeline Lilly

When I was a child, I would draw these little stick-figures, and my mom would put them up all over the loft and tell me how wonderful they were. Then you get out there into the harsh reality of the world, and you realize not everybody loves every little thing you do the way your mom did.

~ Julia Stiles

The phrase 'perception is reality' is overused generally. But perception can be reality in monetary policy. The bond market doesn't act merely on what it sees. It acts on what it expects of the Fed or the government.

~ Amity Shlaes

The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.

~ Wilhelm Reich

Someone who'll bring some normalcy into my life and help me stay in touch with reality. That is something I'm curious about. There are so many actors who are married to people from non-film backgrounds, and their marriages are successful. I'm tired of dating actresses.

~ Shahid Kapoor

No matter how much money you have or what kind of cocoon you live in, the reality is that you have lost a game of football and let England's fans down. We are bothered.

~ Rio Ferdinand

In all honesty, I grew up a certain way. I never had to worry about money... that was my reality.

~ Tori Spelling

Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

~ Thomas Sowell

To pine for the days before public education became a practical reality is to pine for an America held back by mass ignorance and mass illiteracy.

~ Timothy Noah

Wisdom may best arise from a humbling reality.

~ Michael Leunig

I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

It's like watching a car accident, that reality TV.

~ Enrico Colantoni

Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.

~ Eckhart Tolle

Peace can be promoted by the limitation of arms and by the creation of the instrumentality for peaceful settlement of controversies. But it will become a reality only through self-restraint and active effort in friendliness and helpfulness.

~ Herbert Hoover

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

~ Lao Tzu

Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.

~ Mahmoud Darwish

I used to watch some of the reality shows about models, and then, weirdly, now I try to incorporate into my fashion shoots the skills I learnt from watching those shows. It's like, thanks Tyra, 'cause you've given me, like, all the cool tips. Like how to smile with your eyes.

~ Rebel Wilson