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. We talk later," he demands. "Or now, with everyone listening."
"Go to hell," I say. It worked before, but not this time.
His voice soft, he asks, "Aren't we already there, Q?

Corrine Jackson

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. I got along without you before I met you and I'll get along without you a long time after you're gone.

Willie Nelson

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

Matt Berninger

#8. The light of truth burns without a flicker in the depths of a house that is shaken with storms of passion and fear.

Thomas Merton

#9. I hate that. I hate kids like that so fugging much.

John Green

#10. 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

#11. You cannot talk to people successfully if they think you are not interested in what they have to say or you have no respect for them.

Larry King

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

Robert Frost

#15. 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

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

Christopher G. Nuttall

#17. I was always talking about what I could and would do, and you would always make rhymes about the competion even though we werent thinking about competition.

Kool Moe Dee

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

Douglas MacArthur

#19. We don't want to hear it, but one of the biggest "secrets" to success is the ability to take action.

Daniel Vlcek

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

Bryant McGill

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

Catherynne M Valente

#22. I think the minimum wage ought to keep pace with inflation.

Mitt Romney

#23. The smell of the nail polish made me think of Amber and the rest of my friends. I missed them, but in theory. It wasn't them I missed, but friendship. QUITE YET.

David Levithan

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

David Alan Harvey

#25. 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

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

J.D. Robb