When Reality Strikes Quotes

#1. Because, you see, every triumph begins with failure.

Adam Gidwitz

#2. Art is meant to strike us with Reality, not allow us to hide from it.

Elmer Rice

#3. My girlfriend is much better than I am at working hard then resting, and she demands that from me, too. She insists on having time when we don't do anything. We leave the housework and watch a movie.

Cynthia Nixon

#4. In dim ways he recognised in man the animal that had fought itself to primacy over the other animals of the Wild.

Jack London

#5. His mouth was small, but bowed. Like a doll's. She wondered if he had trouble opening it wide enough to eat apples.

Rainbow Rowell

#6. We all carry burdens from our past, but it is not for others to exploit them.

Kathleen Grissom

#7. Because, between 'reality' on the one hand, and the point where the mind strikes reality, there's a middle zone, a rainbow edge where beauty comes into being, where two very different surfaces mingle and blur to provide what life does not: and this is the space where all art exists, and all magic.

Donna Tartt

#8. When art calls, you have to follow it. It doesn't happen often, so take the opportunity when it strikes. In all reality, what I do is art. I do create fabulous pieces of decorative baked goods.

A.M. Willard

#9. I'll sleep with Anne."
"No, you won't."
"Yes, I will." He raised a hand high. "For I am, Malcolm, Lord of the Sex!

Kylie Scott

#10. In reality, government subsidized railroad construction, maintained high protective tariffs and a tight money supply, used its power to crush strikes, and in other ways supported the nation's most powerful economic interests. But the laissez-faire myth still framed political debate. The

Steven J. Diner

#11. You have this disturbing reality that there are a lot of people who would rather say, 'I'm on strike' than 'I'm unemployed.' And those are the people who vote for strikes.

Dick Wolf

#12. And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim: and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands.

Anonymous

#13. For the heavenly fire no longer strikes depraved cities, it is rather the lens which cuts through ordinary reality like a laser, putting it to death.

Jean Baudrillard

#14. When the world's run by fools it's the duty of intelligence to disobey.

Martin Firrell

#15. Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.

Marcel Proust

#16. Believe me, I've taken a lot of heat for my mustache.

Kevin Connolly