Reality Quotes

Values unrelated to modern reality are not just electorally hopeless, the values themselves become devalued. They have no purchase on the real world.

I want to make a clear distinction between people who take acting seriously and people who call themselves actors because they've been on reality TV or something.

Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.

In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it.

I mean, Iceland is Iceland. It can't do damage to anybody unless you're Icelandic. But the United States can drag down the entire western economy. And I think what we are seeing is simply a reflection of reality. This is not, I'm sorry, but this is not a AAA nation.

Rarely has reality needed so much to be imagined.

Well, my books - I think one of the hallmarks of my thrillers is that they're based in reality.

In reality, serial killers are of average intelligence.

What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality.

This is the reality of nuclear weapons: they may trigger a world war; a war which, unlike previous ones, destroys all of civilization.

The same stimuli in the world can be inducing very different experiences internally and it's probably based on a single change in a gene. What I am doing is pulling the gene forward and imaging and doing behavioural tests to understand what that difference is and how reality can be constructed so differently.

If heaven is understood more as God's space on earth than as an ethereal region apart from the essential reality we know, then what happens on earth matters even more than we think, for the Christian life becomes a continuation of the unfolding work of Jesus, who will one day return to set the world to rights.

I am proud to stand with the millions of women and men who recognize that our government should legislate according to the reality of our lives - not for ideology.

It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a foot soldier.

In reality, those rare few cases with good forensic evidence are the ones that make it to court.

Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

I don't think movies or television have any basis in reality at all. It's all just pretend. That's what's fun about it.

Sure, I suffered a lot. But it's not like the end of the world and it's not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and I'm able to divorce a perceived reality from my actual experience of life.

Rastafari not a culture, it's a reality.

Even in the realest American cinema that I see, there's still not that sense that this is reality. There's still that sense that you are watching a movie. And hopefully, if we did get our jobs right, that sense disappears when you watch this movie.

Hurricane Katrina exposed the harsh reality that we have been skating on thin ice when it comes to this country's energy concentrations on the Gulf Coast.

There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.

When you film a reality show, it's so jumbled. They shoot episodes in all orders!

The word "Christianity" is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.

Reality is, I'm an actor and an entertainer, and I really wouldn't know what to do with another profession.

But with The Dark Crystal, instead of puppetry we're trying to go toward a sense of realism - toward a reality of creatures that are actually alive and we're mixing up puppetry and all kinds of other techniques.

The reality is, some people don't want you to change or go anywhere different.

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

I believe if there is any place left where the humanity is still visible, it can not be anywhere else than in an Islamic society. Time would come when the world would be obliged to accept this reality.

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