- Nov 07, 2020
Reality Quotes
What's real depends on where you're standing.
This set weighs reality against illusion, touching on digital-age facts that can't be hidden, the difference between a screen character and the actor playing tough, and why escapist fantasy still appeals. For adjacent emotional ground, see our Pain quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Knowledge
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The building art is, in reality, always the spatial execution of spiritual decisions. It is bound to its times and manifests itself only in addressing vital tasks with the means of its times. A knowledge of the times, its tasks, and its means is the necessary precondition of work in the building art.
- Language
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.
- Imagination
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
- Discipline
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like post-modernism. It's cynical, and takes no discipline - you just copy. It doesn't allow a film to be open to reality.
- Children
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
In reality the world is as full of bad mothers as it is of bad fathers, and it is not the motherless children who become delinquent but the fatherless ones.
- Artist
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?
- Look
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe in dressing up reality. I don't believe in using makeup to make things look smoother.
- Nation
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
When we become immobilized by our own inability to deal directly with what is a commonly perceived truth and reality, we are in trouble as a nation.
- Important
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I can't write a novel without first really doing reporting. I don't even call it research; it's reporting. That process is very important to the granularity of my writing. I have to know what the reality is so I can be more convincing in the writing.
- People
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
There are so many cameras. There is so much instant media attention, not just for celebrities, but for normal people that get thrust in the reality world.
- Me
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Most of my nightmares that jolt me awake either involve the cosmos or something completely out of human control. In reality, I worry more about nuclear war, or war in general.
- Energy
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
In reality drilling is the slowest, dirtiest, and most expensive way to solve our energy crisis.
- Thoughts
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Because all the thought processes are limited, they are conditioned, and the thought does not touch directly with the reality, the truth; thoughts only grasps at the image of the truth.
- Home
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm back at home it's just reality. I kind of separate myself from Hollywood.
- Living
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I was 17 and living on the streets. I had the education of technically an eighth-grader, but in reality, I had never had a formal education.
- Rise
- |
- Nov 07, 2020