Quotes on Reality

The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.

Author: Douglas Adams

Why do you have to translate and decode things? Just let the image be. It will have a special kind of reality that it won't once it's decoded.

Author: Laurie Anderson

In reality I have said very little things; I didn't point out many things to Geoffrey, I trusted very much not only his understanding of what I was doing, or what I wanted to do, in that moment.

Author: Victoria Angeles

I like reality. It tastes like bread.

Author: Jean Anouilh

I want to be like the patron saint of reality.

Author: Fiona Apple

All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

Author: Walter Bagehot

Candidates don't have to deal with reality. They talk about the wonderful things they can accomplish as if advocating them is the same as achieving them. They live in a world of political make-believe in which everything from reconciling conflicting interests to paying for costly programs is easy.

Author: Fred Barnes

Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.

Author: Mary Bateson

Those who sit at the feast will continue to enjoy themselves even though the veil that separates them from the world of toiling reality below has been lifted by mass revolts and critics.

Author: Mary Beard

I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality.

Author: Max Beckmann

It would follow that 'significant form' was form behind which we catch a sense of ultimate reality.

Author: Clive Bell

All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

Author: A. Benson

I humbly apologise for reality Television.

Author: Cilla Black

But reality television is here to stay.

Author: Cilla Black

One thus sees that a new kind of theory is needed which drops these basic commitments and at most recovers some essential features of the older theories as abstract forms derived from a deeper reality in which what prevails in unbroken wholeness.

Author: David Bohm

We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place.

Author: Daniel Boorstin

Reality is not always probable, or likely.

Author: Jorge Borges

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Author: Ray Bradbury

In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chattering spotlight of an ostensible transparency, even though the ultimate objective is clear.

Author: Breyten Breytenbach

Gone are the days when reality fed the feminist movement.

Author: Tammy Bruce

One person's crazyness is another person's reality.

Author: Tim Burton

I'd like to be an assistant producer to a reality show.

Author: Trishelle Cannatella

I'm concerned about a lot of serious border issues. This book is about the border reality and the struggles of the undocumented worker.

Author: Ana Castillo

Reality is not simply there, it must be searched and won.

Author: Paul Celan

This industry is very make-believe and you caught in a false sense of what reality is.

Author: Morris Chestnut

We are assuming that we exist, that there is reality, and that the matter of which we are made is real.

Author: John Clayton

We've always been a bit out of touch with reality.

Author: Jarvis Cocker

We tend to do period stuff because it helps make it one step removed from boring everyday reality.

Author: Ethan Coen

Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.

Author: Joseph Conrad

In reality, for me every role is completely different.

Author: Hugh Dancy

Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.

Author: Sammy Davis, Jr.

Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality.

Author: Clarence Day

It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.

Author: Philip Dick

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

Author: Philip Dick

This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.

Author: Barry Diller

The sciences which take socio-historical reality as their subject matter are seeking, more intensively than ever before, their systematic relations to one another and to their foundation.

Author: Wilhelm Dilthey

In reality, the most important things happen when you don't look for them.

Author: Phil Donahue

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

Author: T. Eliot

Reality is a sliding door.

Author: Ralph Emerson

When you get on stage, you can be anything. You are removed from reality in a way, the real world.

Author: Suzanne Farrell

Even if I'm playing a superhero, it has to be steeped in reality.

Author: Michael Fassbender

Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.

Author: Gustave Flaubert

Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality.

Author: John Ford

I get out of the taxi and it's probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards, New York.

Author: Milos Forman

Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be.

Author: Sigmund Freud

I have no words for my reality.

Author: Max Frisch

Reality is an acquired taste.

Author: Robert Fritz

I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way.

Author: Lady Gaga

You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.

Author: Victor Garber

I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself.

Author: Alberto Giacometti

I am ashamed to admit I watch a lot of reality shows like The Osbournes and The Bachelor.

Author: Sara Gilbert

You have to look at the discrepancy between what you hoped and imagined and the reality of yourself and all your shortcomings.

Author: Richard Grant

Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

Author: Graham Greene

Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.

Author: Alex Haley

My relationship to reality has been so utterly skewed for so long that I don't even notice it any more. It's just my reality.

Author: Ethan Hawke

Life is about finding the balance between chasing dreams and embracing reality.

Author: Sophia Lee

Sometimes I feel like I'm a contestant in a reality show that probably would be called The Apprentice Survivor Millionaire.

Author: Robert Iger

The ultimate security is your understanding of reality.

Author: H. Judd

I knew there was something special about the theater for me something beyond the regular reality, something that I could get into and transcend and become something other than myself.

Author: Raul Julia

Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.

Author: Alphonse Karr

I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.

Author: Gottfried Leibniz

Reality is always extraordinary.

Author: Mary Mark

Rarely has reality needed so much to be imagined.

Author: Chris Marker

The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.

Author: Gabriel Marquez

I wanted to be a doctor at one point and I also wanted to be a pilot. I think if you grow up in a dodgy area, reality often beats down those ambitions as you get older. But with me that never really happened.

Author: James McAvoy

If you try hard enough, you can bend the spoon; you can shift reality.

Author: Christopher Meloni

I wrote a book called The Taste of New Wine because I couldn't find a book that talked about the reality of the situation and how we were dishonest and afraid.

Author: Keith Miller

Reality is something you rise above.

Author: Liza Minnelli

What I'm saying is that I tried very hard to give them my reality and my reality is kind of interesting.

Author: Liza Minnelli

There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality.

Author: Thomas Nagel

A theory must be tempered with reality.

Author: Jawaharlal Nehru

Step outside the guidelines of the official umpires and make your own rules and your own reality.

Author: Phil Ochs

We are shaped by each other. We adjust not to the reality of a world, but to the reality of other thinkers.

Author: Joseph Pearce

Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality.

Author: Jean Piaget

Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days.

Author: John Pilger

Though we explore in a culturally-conditioned way, the reality we sketch is universal.

Author: John Polanyi

In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality.

Author: Karl Popper

Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand, leaves them at an imaginary level.

Author: Manuel Puig

I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.

Author: Manuel Puig

Reality isn't the way you wish things to be, nor the way they appear to be, but the way they actually are.

Author: Robert Ringer

You create your own reality.

Author: Jane Roberts

Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.

Author: Francois Rochefoucauld

I know I'm on a small cable reality show. I'm realistic where I stand in the scheme of things.

Author: Jai Rodriguez

I learned a great deal doing Brooklyn Bridge. I was able to take a giant step into the terrible reality that was then. We saw the cattle cars that took folks away. Just knowing it was real, it would be impossible not to feel.

Author: Marion Ross

To me, a fairy tale seems to have become reality.

Author: Nelly Sachs

No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality.

Author: Edward Sapir

I reject your reality and substitute my own.

Author: Adam Savage

If I leave, reality will devour me. Then they will all really be dead.

Author: Asne Seierstad

These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile.

Author: Ayrton Senna

I actually think I'm more of a turtle than Verne is. Where Verne is up on two legs and moving at full speed and doesn't pull his head into the shell very often, I in reality was five or ten minutes later to every recording session.

Author: Garry Shandling

We don't live in the world of reality, we live in the world of how we perceive reality.

Author: Bryan Singer

Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception.

Author: George Soros

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

Author: Terence Stamp

Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the reality and interested in telling about it.

Author: Gertrude Stein

Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.

Author: Wallace Stevens

I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, and I'm happy, Doctor, I finally won out over it.

Author: Jimmy Stewart

I do not support raising the minimum wage, and the reason is as follows. When the minimum wage is raised, workers are priced out of the market. That is the economic reality that seems, at least so far, to be missing from this discussion.

Author: John Sununu

I'm not big into images. I'm into reality.

Author: Paul Tagliabue

Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another.

Author: Jalal Talabani

Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality.

Author: Donna Tartt

When I was thinking about The Lion King, I said, we have to do what theater does best. What theater does best is to be abstract and not to do literal reality.

Author: Julie Taymor

What is reality, anyway? Just a collective hunch.

Author: Lily Tomlin

The reality is that international institutions like the UN can only be as effective as its members allow it to be.

Author: Atal Vajpayee

I try to ground most of my characters in reality somehow. That's kind of what I bring to the table.

Author: Donnie Wahlberg

If you're rude for television's sake, it ain't reality TV.

Author: Pete Waterman

I think that's where reality TV works - you don't know where it's going.

Author: Pete Waterman

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

Author: Alan Watts

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

Author: Simone Weil

Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.

Author: Jack Welch

The notion of the world as a village is becoming a reality.

Author: James Wolfensohn

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

Author: Virginia Woolf

We cannot pretend that reality is different from what it is.

Author: Adolfo Zinser

I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it.

Author: Slavoj Zizek

Life is a journey to find the balance between chasing dreams and embracing reality.

Author: Maya Angelou

The greatest power you possess is the ability to shape your own reality through the lens of your perception.

Author: Jenna Anderson

Life is the art of balance, finding harmony between dreams and reality.

Author: Sofia Alvarez

Believe in the power of your dreams, for they hold the inspiration to create your reality.

Author: Sophia Hernandez

In the clash between reality and imagination, creativity is born.

Author: Sophia Montgomery

Creativity is the bridge between imagination and reality.

Author: Monica Patel

Chase your dreams before they become lost in the wake of reality.

Author: Samantha Smith

Imagination is the key that unlocks endless possibilities and reshapes reality.

Author: Sophia Rodriguez

In a world where wrong is right and right is lost, sometimes all we can do is find meaning in the chaos.

Author: Alexandra Rodriguez

The way we choose to see the world creates the world we see.

Author: Jennifer Moss

True creativity is the key to unlocking limitless possibilities within the realms of reality.

Author: Harper Knight

Creativity is the bridge between imagination and reality

Author: Alexandria Rodriguez

Believe in the power of your dreams, for they are the seeds of your reality.

Author: Sophia Turner

Fear is the dark room where dreams are developed into reality.

Author: Sarah Johnson

Creativity is the bridge that connects imagination to reality.

Author: Maya Patel

We are all masters of our own reality, shaping it with every decision we make.

Author: Sofia Chen

A dream is a wish your heart makes, but reality is what truly molds your destiny.

Author: Sophia Martinez

Creativity is the bridge between dreams and reality.

Author: Sophia Adams

Love is the most powerful force in the universe, capable of bending reality to its will.

Author: Mia Torres

The power of positivity can shape your reality more than you could ever imagine.

Author: Jasmine Wright

Creativity is the bridge that connects dreams to reality.

Author: Sophia Parker

Dreams are the fuel that power our actions towards reality.

Author: Stephanie Cruz

Do not just chase your dreams, create your own reality.

Author: Jacqueline Smith

Success lies in daring to dream beyond the limitations of reality.

Author: Alexandra Greene

Tomorrow may never come, but today is in the palm of your hand.

Author: Sophia Lopez

Ambition is the spark that ignites our dreams into reality.

Author: Sophia Reynolds

Creativity is the bridge that connects imagination with reality.

Author: Mia Green

Our perspective shapes our reality, so it's essential to choose lenses that empower instead of limit us.

Author: Samantha Knowles

In the sea of dreams lies the compass to navigate through reality.

Author: Sophia Green

Life is a journey not a race, embrace the detours and cherish the scenery along the way.

Author: Maya Johnson

Believe in the power of your dreams; they hold the potential to shape your reality.

Author: Sophia Olsson

Don't just dream, take action and turn your dreams into reality.

Author: Sophia Lee

He who dares to dream, dares to defy reality

Author: Samantha Banks

Hope is the anchor that keeps our dreams from drifting away in the storms of reality.

Author: Sophia Ramos

Don't be afraid to dream big, for dreams have the power to create magic in reality.

Author: Maya Johnson

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced

Author: Maria Rubio

Experience is the architect of wisdom, shaping our dreams into reality.

Author: Maya Lawrence