Reality Quotes

The middle class, one of the great achievements in history, is becoming more of a relic than a reality.

A reflection of an exact image is the closest thing to you-so that you can see it-but it's far enough away so that you really understand it. There is real life in this movie, but it hovers just an inch above reality.

It was just you had to be strong, and if you weren't strong you're a victim and you're not going to make it. That was the reality when I was growing up.

Reality is always extraordinary.

The reality, sitting ten thousand miles away, is that we remain the country that inspires. We remain that shining city on a hill.

In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.

I love reality. I love the world. I love the smell of it. I love it.

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.

I act for the reality, for the moment, and most of all I do it for the process.

No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by.

The reality is is that Congress is a very male-gendered oriented institution. Out of the, you know, more than 10,000 people who've ever been elected to Congress, you know, only about 250 of them have ever been women.

In every war zone that I've been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war was being fought. In every crisis, the issues have been far more complex than the public has been allowed to know.

The left and the right live in parallel universes. The right listens to talk radio, the left's on the Internet and they just reinforce one another. They have no sense of reality. I have now one ambition: to retire before it becomes essential to tweet.

What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion.

I started looking at small companies that were running a sort of virtual reality cottage industry: I had imagined that I would just put on a helmet and be somewhere else - that's your dream of what it's going to be.

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

The reality is that during the Reagan years, for instance, we doubled the amount of revenue that we were sending to Washington, D.C. after the tax cuts took effect.

I've always really liked theater. It fascinated me. You can create a reality and get people involved in that reality. It takes place in real time.

That the AIDS pandemic is threatening sustainable development in Africa only reinforces the reality that health is at the center of sustainable development.

The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love.

As a child, recognizing my difference from other kids, I went to the local public library to try to better understand my reality. Back then, many library card catalogues didn't even list 'homosexuality' as a topic.

The reality is, Jennifer and I can do our job well because we truly are friends. But when the day's over, she goes home to her boyfriend and I go home to a magazine.

The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.

You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.

Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

I think sometimes when it comes to sports, and especially relationships between players and coaches, that people lose track, lose a sense of reality.

Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture.

Well, when you're relaxed, your mind takes you to the whole reality. There's no such thing as time when you're really relaxed. That's why meditation works.

In Hollywood, moviemaking used to be about escaping reality to go to the movies.