Get A Grip On Reality Quotes

#1. The only thing that helps me keep my slender grip on reality is the friendship I have with my collection of singing potatoes.

Holly

#2. I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality ... to protect myself.

Alberto Giacometti

#3. He who repeats what he does not understand is no better than an ass that is loaded with books.

Khalil Gibran

#4. His herding instinct is so strong that he confuses tractors on a baseball field for sheep. He was hospitalized twice. Once by a line drive and once for attacking a tractor tread.

Tom Hayden

#5. When you don't have love, it is like there's a party going on and everybody was invited except for you ... and you just happen to walk by that house in the rain

Dane Cook

#6. I am a performer. I go on stage and make a fool of myself.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

#7. Data are pointing to very strong growth in the fourth quarter. The pessimistic viewpoint, which has seen its grip on reality slip to the last knuckle in the past few months, is now holding on by its fingernails.

Brian Wesbury

#8. The Baptist found him far too deep; The Deist sighed with saving sorrow; And the lean Levite went to sleep, And dreamed of tasting pork to-morrow.

Winthrop Mackworth Praed

#9. My senses have been stripped, my hands can't feel to grip, my toes to numb to step, wait only for my boot heels to be wandering.

Bob Dylan

#10. There may be no single thing more important in our efforts to achieve meaningful work and fulfilling relationships than to learn to practice the art of communication.

Max De Pree

#11. Giving is a really big thing around Christmas, as well it should be. Christmas is about giving, and it all stems from the greatest gift the world has ever received - the gift of Jesus Christ.

Monica Johnson

#12. I drink wine on stage to sort of loosen my grip on reality a little.

Matt Berninger

#13. Fashion needs fresh blood, and London is the most creative place for that.

Donatella Versace

#14. Face it: a nation that maintains a 72% approval rating on George W. Bush is a nation with a very loose grip on reality.

Garrison Keillor

#15. Talent is an amalgam of high sensitivity; easy vulnerability; high sensory equipment (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting intensely); a vivid imagination as well as a grip on reality; the desire to communicate one's own experience and sensations, to make one's self heard and seen.

Uta Hagen

#16. What else had I forgotten? What else would come back, knocking me off balance and reminding me how tenuous my grip on reality was?

Susannah Cahalan

#17. I wanted to work with Cate Blanchett. She is one of the five greatest movie actresses of her generation.

Alec Baldwin

#18. In order effectively to liberate oneself from the grip of existing social reality, one should first renounce the transgressive fantasmatic supplement that attaches us to it.

Slavoj Zizek

#19. They're politicians," her father pointed out dryly. "A good grip on reality isn't part of the job description.

Christopher G. Nuttall

#20. Just because someone sees the truth doesn't mean they will accept it or allow that truth to change them.

Ted Dekker

#21. Old soldiers never die, they just lose their grip on reality after traumatic brain injuries.

Douglas MacArthur

#22. Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication.

Maya Lin

#23. Society may be imagined so uniform that one education shall be suitable for all its members; we have not a society of that kind, nor has any European country.

Matthew Arnold

#24. One of the fastest ways to move through your pain is to get a grip on reality.

Bryant McGill

#25. I could not extrapolate some emotion from any song after 1997 so I bought a drum machine and popped pills. The pink ones make me funny like elephants!

Thom Yorke

#26. You should always listen to minotaurs. Anybody with four stomachs has to have a firm grip on reality.

Catherynne M Valente

#27. mind will express itself through any covering of the body, so the paleness which his situation engendered came through the brown upon his cheek, showing the soul to be stronger than the sun. He was otherwise quite self-possessed, bowed to the Judge, and stood

Charles Dickens

#28. The more tightly you cling to your faith, the looser your grip is on reality.

David Alan Harvey

#29. Sometimes nature guards her secrets with the unbreakable grip of physical law. Sometimes the true nature of reality beckons from just beyond the horizon.

Brian Greene

#30. Reach down inside yourself, Peabody, and get a grip on reality, however slippery.

J.D. Robb