Reality Quotes

Living this life in the same sorta way that Kerouac lived, you get to hang out at shows and drink and you're able to not really face reality and adulthood the way most of my friends are.

Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.

NAFTA recognizes the reality of today's economy - globalization and technology. Our future is not in competing at the low-level wage job; it is in creating high-wage, new technology jobs based on our skills and our productivity.

The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable.

We must get the American public to look past the glitter, beyond the showmanship, to the reality, the hard substance of things. And we'll do it not so much with speeches that will bring people to their feet as with speeches that bring people to their senses.

My character in 'Prison Break' needs to be formidable. In reality, I'm not very tough at all.

I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of violence, destruction and terrorism.

Reality is a genre that seems to be here to stay. I don't know how many of the new shows will last, but the more competition you have, the harder that pie is to slice up.

That is the returning to God which in reality is never concluded on earth but yet leaves behind in the soul a divine home sickness, which never again ceases.

I know that plans and reality may be two different things, but I think my demands on life are minimal.

Politically speaking, you don't necessarily give away information that allows your enemy to get an upper hand. But at the same time you don't keep reality from the population.

In reality, American girls are among the most outspoken, ambitious, successful girls in the history of the human race.

Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.

There's got to be a little bit of reality show fatigue happening.

It I talked about Watergate, I was described as struggling to free myself from the morass. If I did not talk about Watergate, I was accused of being out of touch with reality.

Well, we all start thinking we're going to be Romantic rock stars, but then reality hits and you realize no one reads you but other poets.

Imagination creates reality.

We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

However, while we should certainly celebrate the demise of overt official racism, we must also critically examine where we are at this historical moment, recognize the many challenges ahead and reaffirm our commitment to making Brown v. Board a reality.

Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.

It turned out that the country was helpless in the face of a new reality.

Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye, and deny it.

Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave.

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.

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

Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style.

My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.

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.

If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both.