When you’re older, you want to be scared because you understand more where the boundaries between fantasy and reality are, and I suppose they are more blurred the younger you are. – David Tennant
So, we, as human beings, live in a very imprecise world. A world where our perceptions of reality are far more important than actual reality. – Daniel Keys Moran
ISIS is luring Americans with empty and false promises that do not reflect reality on the ground in Iraq. – Chuck Fleischmann
I think it is important to make sure that I have my real life as well, because Hollywood can certainly seem like an alternate reality sometimes. – Paul Dano
Actors pull from their own experiences to bring reality to the characters. I wouldn’t want to play someone who’s a lot like me. There would be no turning it on or off. – Emily Osment
Life is dramatic and comedic at times. Sometimes in the most dramatic situations, there is comedy. And good comedy comes from a sense of reality. – Constance Marie
I find as a viewer, when I go to see comedies, the strain to be funny throughout the whole thing. I start to lose my sense of reality, and it ends up feeling like an empty experience; there’s funny stuff in it but I’ve lost the emotional connection to the characters because it’s just so bananas. – Mike White
The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick. – Florence Nightingale
‘Cooking Lucky’ is a show for guys – or girls – or really for anyone who is all thumbs in the kitchen and needs some help cooking meals that are so incredibly impressive they make it look like you’ve been slaving in the kitchen all day when in reality, they are so effortless to put together that even a moron can do it. – Eden Riegel
God is a fiction invented by people so they do not have to face the reality of their condition. – Michel Onfray
The reality is that Trump’s focus on immigrants is to misconceive of the terrorist problem that exists in the United States. – Peter L. Bergen
Most people talk; we do things. They plan; we achieve. They hesitate; we move ahead. We are living proof that when human beings have the courage and commitment to transform a dream into reality, there is nothing that can stop them. – Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
Perceptual reality is different for different species. In certain species it is a mode of observation, so what we call scientific fact is actually not ultimate truth, it is perceptual experience, and it’s a mode of observation. – Deepak Chopra
I think it’s very dangerous, the idea of celebrity – you have to be constantly controversial to maintain the status of celebrity. Reality TV is the death of entertainment – it’s just mindless TV but popular because of its voyeuristic nature, and people are very voyeuristic. – David Suchet
TV networks are dying. The death throes of religion give us jihads. The death throes of television give us reality shows. – Penn Jillette
Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness. – Eckhart Tolle
Critical and liberating dialogue, which presupposes action, must be carried on with the oppressed at whatever the stage of their struggle for liberation. The content of that dialogue can and should vary in accordance with historical conditions and the level at which the oppressed perceive reality. – Paulo Freire
Most grain foods, whether we’re talking about quinoa, amaranth, the very popular grains of the day – the reality is they still are associated with a carbohydrate surge. – David Perlmutter
Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind. – Edmund Burke
For me, the first fact of human existence is the human body. But if you embrace the reality of the human body, you embrace mortality, and that is a very difficult thing for anything to do because the self-conscious mind cannot imagine non-existence. It’s impossible to do. – David Cronenberg
There is no need to get caught up in any apocalyptic prophecies that have no basis in reality. – Ehud Olmert
The degree in which a poet’s imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity. – George Santayana
The reality is that we have missed a lot of opportunities in Iraq because of a failed policy. – Marty Meehan
Hugh Everett’s work has been described by many people in terms of many worlds, the idea being that every one of the various alternative histories, branching histories, is assigned some sort of reality. – Murray Gell-Mann
People always get confused. They talk about coaches. The reality is, these coaches and managers that everybody thinks are in so much control, they work for us. They’re our employees. – Daniel Cormier
