Top 100 My Reality Quotes
#1. Sometimes I felt like I was waiting for my life to begin and more than anything, in that moment, I wanted to force some kind of beginning. I wanted things to be different than usual. I wanted to bend reality.
Holly Black
#2. War is only a passing phase in business life ... If you want my opinion there's nothing like a spot of patriotism for blinding people to reality.
J.G. Farrell
#3. Screw reality. It don't feed my dog. It don't make my Porsche payments. It don't get me laid. Bullshit does that ... and I like it that way. (Leo)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#4. It was inevitable at some point that I would bump into one of my father's plays. The reality of the situation is that I'm a jobbing actor, and any actor would give their eye-teeth to have one of those roles. It's a no-brainer! I'm pleased the stars have aligned around 'Arcadia.'
Ed Stoppard
#5. I've tried lots of things. The reality is, I'm excited by everything on Day 1. And if by Day X things aren't working the way I hoped, I lose my passion. I have not seen the correlation between my passion and my success.
Scott Adams
#6. Some books mirror reality while others are entirely fantasy. My favorite are those that manage to weave both into a world.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#7. Did I imagine all this? People are shooting at me! My job blew up, and I just watched myself exit my own room! This has been one day I will never forget!
D.W. Beam
#8. I believe reality is a marvelous joke staged for my edification and amusement and everybody is working very hard to make me happy.
Terence McKenna
#9. My name is Malcolm Pomerantz, and I'm an axe man, though not like those guys on that reality-TV show about loggers.
Dean Koontz
#10. If literature provides solutions, if it provides answers, then it is lying. Rooted in reality as it is, it can only contribute towards posing the questions more sharply and clearly and more drastically than before. In my opinion, creative literature is an empirical science.
Jens Bjorneboe
#11. My logical mind simply can't make sense of the ability to see things before they even happen. However, experience has shown me that there is a lot more to reality than that which is generally considered "logical.
Kim Sheridan
#13. The goal of all my work is essentially the same: demonstrating that magic is real or that reality is magic, by paying attention, and finding compensation or consolation for what is essentially a tragic existence.
Peter Blegvad
#14. What separated me from all my homeboys is the fact that I didn't get caught inside the reality. I was always dreaming about doing something else or going somewhere else.
Kendrick Lamar
#15. I try to ground most of my characters in reality somehow. That's kind of what I bring to the table.
Donnie Wahlberg
#16. They hadn't even gotten their first paychecks yet, ... My biggest thing was giving them a sense of reality and what costs would be. We outlined costs and a budget, and by the time we finished they said they could take maybe one vacation a year. They started to understand reality versus their dreams.
Ron Pearson
#17. I avoided reality for most of my life. But once you deal with it, it's kind of cool.
Roseanne Barr
#18. The word 'monster' [monstrum] derives from 'demonstrare,' meaning to show or to demonstrate. Heresy and evolutionary change are thus mere intrusions into a homogenous perception of reality. My vocation, I decided, would be to make my life an example.
But of what?
Steve Abbott
#19. If ever I had any doubts about the fundamental realities of religion, they could always be dispelled by one memory- the light upon my father's face as he came back from early communion.
Alfred Noyes
#20. Well, my books - I think one of the hallmarks of my thrillers is that they're based in reality.
Brad Thor
#21. 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
#22. My language and my sensibility are yearning to admit a kind of religious or transcendent dimension. But then there's the reality: there's no Heaven, no afterlife of the sort we were promised, and no personal God.
Seamus Heaney
#23. Dare to be bold and brave, my BEAUTIFUL QUEENS. Dare to believe that you can. Dare to make your dreams a reality. Dare to get out of your comfort zone and soar! Dare to live your life limitlessly. Dare to be yourself and be comfortable in your own skin. DARE.
Stephanie Lahart
#24. Early in the winter of 2002, I gave my life to the Lord. Before I was one, I always thought being a Christian would be boring. In reality, it has been the complete opposite.
Zach Johnson
#25. So the point of my keeping a notebook has never been, nor is it now, to have an accurate factual record of what I have been doing or thinking. That would be a different impulse entirely, an instinct for reality which I sometimes envy but do not possess.
Joan Didion
#26. I have a vision of a Modern India. I have embarked on a huge mission to convert that vision into reality. My mantra is Development.
Narendra Modi
#27. I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing ... getting back to reality.
Adam Ant
#28. I have always felt a connection between daily life and art ... my reality has been my key.
Mirella Freni
#30. I would like to especially acknowledge my home community of Calgary, and the people of central Alberta who made my dream of freedom a reality.
Amanda Lindhout
#31. I persuaded myself that I was dreaming until night should come and that I should then enjoy reality in the arms of my dearest friends.
Mary Shelley
#32. Prenups are so unromantic - a sign of distrust, not love. Time for a reality check, my friends. First, drawing up a prenuptial agreement together is a sign of incredible trust and financial openness - you're fooling yourself if you think you can achieve complete intimacy without it.
Suze Orman
#33. To me, the rainbow was a profoundly hopeful symbol, separating the the white light of appearances into its multiple spectrum and revealing a hidden dimension. It reminded me of my belief that it was the mission of science to pierce through the layers of everyday reality and penetrate to the truth.
Candace B. Pert
#34. 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
#35. My dreams were therefore undisturbed by reality; and I entered with the greatest diligence into the search of the philosopher's stone and the elixir of life. But the latter obtained my undivided attention: wealth was
Mary Shelley
#36. When I make a film I'm always in reality among the trees, and among the people like yourselves. There's no symbolic or conventional filter between me and reality as there is in literature. The cinema is an explosion of my love for reality.
Pier Paolo Pasolini
#37. I retreat into my fictional world where everything makes sense - but even there I can't even control what people do ...
John Geddes
#38. My being gay is not a social issue; it's a fact. It's not something to be debated. It's a reality.
Jose Antonio Vargas
#39. The basis of all scientific work is the conviction that the world is an ordered and comprehensive entity, which is a religious sentiment. My religious feeling is a humble amazement at the order revealed in the small patch of reality to which our feeble intelligence is equal.
Albert Einstein
#40. Sometimes out of sheer perversion reality conforms to my wishes.
Marty Rubin
#41. Visualization - it's been huge for me. Your mind doesn't know the difference between imagination and reality. You can't always practice perfectly - my fingers will play a little bit out of tune, or my dance moves might not be as sharp - but in my mind, I can practice perfectly.
Lindsey Stirling
#42. I am a creator, writing like the wind, I carry the weight of a future world in the barrel of a pen, etching my characters into the paper with life giving ink so my dreams and reality might finally meet.
L.M. Fields
#43. I am not saying that you have to believe in God to make moral decisions. God's existence is not dependent on my belief in him, anyway. However, without the objective reality of God, there would be no conscience".
Michael Ots
#45. I want you to love me." I said softly. "But if not, then I want to be the closest thing to you loving me. I want your loyalty. I want your honesty. I want you by my side and no one else's. I want your body. I want your mind. I want to know your hopes and dreams so I could one day make them reality.
J.J. McAvoy
#47. I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.
Zora Neale Hurston
#48. If someone has been escaping reality, I don't expect him to dig my music.
Charles Mingus
#49. They come from my imagination; for, as you know, truth is silent, and it is imagination only which waxes eloquent. Reality represses the flow of feeling like a rock; imagination cuts out a path for itself.
Rabindranath Tagore
#50. We both know that, my friend, but a man's perception soon becomes his reality.
Tim LaHaye
#51. If the abstract paintings show my reality, then the landscapes and still-lifes show my yearning.
Gerhard Richter
#52. My concern is not for the judicial system, but for the reality that the shark fin mafia of Costa Rica has a price on my head, and a Costa Rican prison would provide an excellent opportunity for someone to exercise this lethal contract against me.
Paul Watson
#53. My brain sometimes departs from the agreed-upon reality, and my private reality is a very lonely place. But in the end, I'm not sure I wish I'd never gone there.
Marya Hornbacher
#54. The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the future until reality taught them that tomorrow was not what they had dreamed, and they discovered nostalgia.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#55. The fact that I am standing there and washing bowls is a wondrous reality. I'm being completely myself, following my breath, conscious of my presence, and conscious of my thoughts and actions.
Nhat Hanh
#56. What I'm saying is that I tried very hard to give them my reality and my reality is kind of interesting.
Liza Minnelli
#57. and the idea of nothingness - the most terrifying of all ideas, when thought of with feeling - has, in my dear master's work and in my memories of him, something as high and luminous as sunlight upon snowy, unscalable peaks.
Alvaro De Campos
#58. I do believe that belief is the most powerful thing we have in this world. So, if we believe in something enough. And we have faith, we can make it a reality. That is basically the basis of my entire career and my entire life.
Corey Feldman
#59. For me, to do a reality show is like sending myself to actor's graveyard. I feel like I should wait and create my own projects ... do independent movies before I would have to go and do reality shows. Or produce one and come up with one on my own!
Tamala Jones
#60. 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
#61. I know that plans and reality may be two different things, but I think my demands on life are minimal.
Moshe Dayan
#62. Sometimes my brain writes a check that reality can't cash.
Adam Savage
#63. I hope you had an entertaining time following me around." I took my keys out.
"You should be a reality show," he said. "It's that good. And you know, I might be a totally unstable former assassin, but man. You manage to shock even me.
Richelle Mead
#64. I ain't done nothing wrong, but love thy self. And harm other niggaz that wanna stop my health.
Ja Rule
#65. Every notion is born along with its form. I make reality of ideas as they come into my head
Meret Oppenheim
#66. When I came to see that Christian growth doesn't happen by working hard to get something you don't have, but rather it happens by working hard to live in the reality of what you already have, this gospel insight radically transformed my life.
Tullian Tchividjian
#67. Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.
George Lucas
#68. Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.
John Lennon
#69. My older brother was involved in the folk movement. We would gather every weekend in Washington Park. The folk songs were so important to my reality.
Anne Waldman
#70. My dream has become a reality now, and it's the best feeling I've ever had.
LeBron James
#71. Interfere with the reality of my world, and you therefore take the very life and heart out of my will.
Josiah Royce
#72. I want to strip my work of 'effects' until it stands monolithic, based on reality and yet transcending it. It must flow naturally from my materials, from the way of the chisel and the way of the block ... It is the ultimate ideal.
Shiko Munakata
#73. I cannot, will not, withhold from my young readers the harsh realities of human hunger and suffering and loss, but neither will I neglect to plant that stubborn seed of hope that has enabled our race to outlast wars and famines and the destruction of death.
Katherine Paterson
#74. Never will I make that extra effort to live according to reality which alone makes good writing possible: hence the manic-depressiveness of my style, - which is either bright, cruel and superficial; or pessimistic; moth-eaten with self-pity
Cyril Connolly
#75. Andrew is an integral part of the team and he is staying at my football club. The reality is I need him to score the goals that will get us promoted.
Simon Jordan
#76. I was very much inspired by the things that I'd seen and done in politics, but I was also desperate for a complete departure from the reality of my political experience. 'It's Classified' and my previous book 'Eighteen Acres' are both works of fiction, but if they do seem realistic, it's by design.
Nicolle Wallace
#77. Our relationship could now thrive only in my head, and to discuss it with a mother intent - admittedly in my own best interest - on challenging it with reality might do it irreparable harm.
Mohsin Hamid
#78. If reality is hard and flat and unjust, then it's better to adjust to what really is than to complain that it isn't what you wish. That was what made me lose faith ... But having lost it, soon I doubted my lack of faith. There were niggling hints of meaning everywhere.
Brent Weeks
#79. He was responsible for my peaks and valleys, the pulsating waves and earth-shattering releases. It didn't matter if I was bound or not, whether we fucked or made love, he was in control. The reality was he was always in control.
Arika Stone
#80. There isn't an amount of money you could offer me to do reality TV. I would rather get my job back on the building site. Or I could own a construction business. Maybe I could retire to my house in Long Island and take up painting, like Captain Beefheart. A crazy recluse: I like that idea.
Dave Gahan
#81. Hence, viper thoughts, that coil around my mind, Reality's dark dream!
I turn from you, and listen to the wind.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#82. It is very satisfying to see that my dream of LED lighting has become a reality.
Shuji Nakamura
#83. I now lived in an invisible place made of my own dwindling breath, and because no one else could see it, they could not yank me out of it.
Amy Tan
#85. You spend so much of your life crafting this stuff that you want to laugh in the room. I don't want to sit there and slit my wrists. And I think it reflects reality. People use humor to survive, even in the most horrific situations.
Jenji Kohan
#86. The subject and the reality of having children came at the height of my career.
Melissa Etheridge
#87. In most of my photographic pieces I have manipulated the quality of the evidence that people assign to photography, in order to subvert it, or to show that photography lies - that what it conveys is not reality but a set of cultural codes.
Christian Boltanski
#88. My Calvinism persuades me that we are open to God, in the sense that we are not delimited, not organisms with fixed attributes in the manner of the other creatures, but are instead participants in a reality that utterly exceeds our powers of description.
Marilynne Robinson
#89. That was always my fear, that perhaps books would lead me astray, teaching me about a life that didn't match reality.
Stefanos Livos
#90. I've thought my show would be a sitcom or a talk show. Never in a million years would I have thought my show would be docu-series/reality because you always think reality is something crazy.
Kym Whitley
#91. Reality is the scary thing. Not my work, not comedy.
Tracy Morgan
#92. When my mind plays tricks on me I can deal. But when my mind plays tricks on my mind I can not tell what's real
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#93. It is my opinion that humans are largely what they make of themselves; in other words, "human nature" is not so much an empirical reality as a process of self-construction. This means that if people become what they think they are, what they think they are is exceedingly important.
Linda Marie Fedigan
#94. In the end, oh I know,
never, in my haggard passion,
have I ever been such a cadaver as now
as I take again in hand my tables of the present
if reality's real, but after it's been
destroyed in the eternal and the moment by
the obsessive idea of a shining nothingness.
Pier Paolo Pasolini
#95. One of my principal concerns is the contradiction between appearance and reality - illusion and reality. I try to set up an expectation of sorts and then contradict it.
Stuart Pearson Wright
#96. Clear to me at last that the dark I have always struggled to keep under is in reality my most
Samuel Beckett
#97. I really never look at my health issues as 'Woe is me.' I've seen the reality of that. And it's not a pleasant thing.
Rick Majerus
#98. Your voice tears me away from the reality that I exist and places my mind somewhere in between the infinity and beyond. Where everything is made of bliss and magic. Sometimes, I am scared of not hearing it again and never being able to get separated from this chaotic reality again.
Akshay Vasu
#99. You see, the strangeness of my case is that now I no longer fear the invisible, I'm terrified by reality.
Jean Lorrain
#100. It was just my reality, to never have a boy be interested in me romantically for more than one random moment. Like a TV show you don't like but you end up watching anyway, because there's nothing else on.
Siobhan Vivian
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