Reality Quotes

I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing... getting back to reality.

Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.

The space within becomes the reality of the building.

Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality.

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

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

At the beginning of the 60's our country called the foreign workers to come to Germany and now they live in our country. We kidded ourselves a while, we said: 'They won't stay, sometime they will be gone.' But this isn't reality.

On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven't arrived yet and bring me back to reality.

The Long and the Short and the Tall made a great impression on me because it was a very ugly tale about the reality of soldiering at a time when we were being gung-ho about the whole thing of war.

They shaved my head, eyebrows. This is not a sci-fi picture. It's not a fantasy picture. You're dealing with something that's supposed to be in reality. But we had a genius makeup artist.

Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.

It's really hard to separate fantasy from reality.

The reality in Iraq is that we are creating new terrorists and severely damaging the public impression of the United States in the Muslim world.

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

The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.

My reality is never going to be stick-skinny.

The reality is, it will be a significant conflict going for many, many months, if not longer. Saddam Hussein is not a fool. He hasn't been sitting there waiting to get shot for 13 years.

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

It's a good harsh reality, because my family keeps me very grounded.

If there is no certain reality, the idea of following a leader must be scrutinized.

Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another.

We need strong public health institutions to respond to any challenge. We need to deal with critical infrastructure. The reality is that very little money has flowed to communities to help our first responders; to help our hospitals; to help the public health infrastructure.

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.

Traditional science assumes, for the most part, that an objective observer independent reality exists; the universe, stars, galaxies, sun, moon and earth would still be there if no one was looking.

Let's say that, in reality, I'm basically very shy when it comes to men.

The stark reality facing us today is that without the labour reforms, workers will get neither the income nor jobs in the face of cut-throat global economic competition.

I came to the conclusion months ago, and I said it to members of Congress, that the only way people are going to fully appreciate what this reform is if we pass it and implement it and it becomes not a caricature but a reality, and I still believe that. So I think it will be easier to sell it moving forward than it was to this point.

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.

The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.