Reality Quotes

How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?
Lou Reed

Art, Learn, Artist

I don't believe in dressing up reality. I don't believe in using makeup to make things look smoother.
Lou Reed

Makeup, Using, Dressing

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.
Karl Popper

Speak, Far, Scientific

My belief, for what it is worth, is that city dwellers cannot understand the world. Insulated from reality by complex and expert systems of provision and police, baffled by fashion and spectacle, city dwellers can distinguish neither the sources of their existence nor the consequences.
James Buchan

Understand, Fashion, Cannot

People need to be made conscious of a very simple reality: we have no choice but to share this planet, this small blue sphere floating in the vast reaches of space, with all of our fellow 'passengers.'
Daisaku Ikeda

Simple, Made, Small

I respect the state workers and I respect their unions, but we simply can't afford to pay benefits and pensions that are out of line with economic reality.
Andrew Cuomo

Respect, State, Pay

One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality.
Penn Jillette

Between, Difference, Magic

Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.
Umberto Eco

Real, Blame, Dream

It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Work, Truth, Single

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

Through, Invisible, Bridge

We have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed. We believe that.
Barbara Jordan

Positive, Future, America

I think, to me, reality is better than being fake.
Ice Cube

The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.
Salman Rushdie

Human, Acceptance, Point

The reality of split government puts a premium on creativity within the administration. President Obama needs to put the right people in charge of the agencies and then have them push the bounds of administrative power to change policy through those agencies. President Obama has a pretty good track record of this.
Eliot Spitzer

Change, Good, Power

When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.
Joyce Carol Oates

Life, Saying, Violence

For me, the first fact of human existence is the human body. But if you embrace the reality of the human body, you embrace mortality, and that is a very difficult thing for anything to do because the self-conscious mind cannot imagine non-existence. It's impossible to do.
David Cronenberg

Mind, Human, Cannot

I'm in love with 'Bravo.' Me and my girlfriends love 'Bravo-ing,' which doesn't necessarily mean watching 'Bravo.' It's when you're a bum and you're on your couch watching reality shows.
Ashley Tisdale

Love, Mean, Shows

Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.
Arnold Newman

Real, Create, Illusion

I think I'm a bit of a dreamer. I don't like the reality of life to impinge much on my life.
Hugo Weaving

Life, Bit, Dreamer

'Alien' asked ground-breaking questions about eco-politics and female empowerment. 'The Matrix' delved deeper into the concept of perception versus reality than perhaps any other film I know. But for some reason, we tend not to remember the significance of their writing.
Jason Reitman

Writing, Remember, Reason

Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.
J. G. Ballard

Science, Everything, Almost

What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.
Wallace Stevens

Life, May, Eyes

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.
A. C. Benson

Best, Times, Story

We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.
Carl Friedrich Gauss

Humility, Cannot, Minds

Back in the day, if someone said that hip hop and rap was a fad, that was a joke to me because they just didn't know what they were talking about. In reality, there were so many people who didn't know what they were talking about it.
Jam Master Jay

Someone, Said, Joke

People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.
Robert J. Ringer

Love, Truth, True

You live these three months in this reality, in this dark reality. You don't want to do those films every year because they're taxing. I started smoking a lot of cigarettes.
Vin Diesel

Live, Dark, Smoking

Dreams become reality when we put our minds to it.
Queen Latifah

Dreams, Put, Become

I think reality television is such a special talent.
Margaret Cho

Special, Talent, Television

Sometimes you get caught up in what's going on around you. The reality is that you are just a regular person. At some point, the career will be over, the bright lights turn off. That can come back to haunt you if you're not just a regular guy.
Brett Favre

Person, Career, Sometimes

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