Documenting Reality Quotes

#1. I don't view my memory as accurate or static - and, in autobiographical fiction, my focus is still on creating an effect, not on documenting reality - so 'autobiographical,' to me, is closer in meaning to 'fiction' than 'autobiography.'

Tao Lin

#2. On those who overanalyze his music: When you tear the wings off a butterfly, it is no longer a butterfly

Claude Debussy

#3. I can't believe that our body, composed as it is of mud and shit and equipped with instincts lower than those of the pig or the crab-louse, contains anything pure and immaterial

Gustave Flaubert

#4. Grunge came from a group of English photographers, and they were documenting their own reality ... I'm South American - we celebrate life.

Mario Testino

#5. Solitude is one thing and loneliness is another.

May Sarton

#6. You have to fight against being an antique.

Burt Lancaster

#7. The difference between an energetic person and a confused person is the difference in the way their minds handle their experiences.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#8. You have to get through the Hamlet hoop as a young actor. Your classical qualifications are based on the quality of your Hamlet. And then, as an older actor, you have to get through the Lear hoop. And I'm approaching the Lear hoop.

Derek Jacobi

#9. We've each given the hours of our lives in dull rote jobs for other men's profit, and have been asked to be grateful for doing that.

Charles Bukowski

#10. You are not asking me. I am asking you. Our lives are in God's hands now. Perhaps he has plans, a mission for us to fulfill. Instead of a soldier of Rome, you might now be a messenger of God. But if not, then I still choose to be your wife, for whatever time he allows us to have.

Janette Oke

#11. Tad Christopher in the Tango kitchen with real whipped cream?" "Sounds like Gay Clue, doesn't it?

Z.A. Maxfield

#12. I was training more learning how to scuba dive which I'd never done which was really, really, really cool.

Ashley Scott

#13. I just say I'm an artist who works with pictures and words.

Barbara Kruger

#14. While science is now moving closer to documenting the effects of other-dimensional realities, even with the best technology in the world today, science can only observe effects, not the reality itself.

Elaine Seiler