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Reality Quotes

All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.

– Max Beerbohm

The distinction between reality and fiction in America seems like it is becoming really blurry. With its religious fanaticism, reality TV programs and fake news broadcasts being aired by the government, the States feel like they are entering the Dark Ages.

– Dana Schutz

The reality is the Lean Startup method is not about cost, it is about speed. Lean startups waste less money, because they use a disciplined approach to testing new products and ideas.

– Eric Ries

There is no reality of consciousness independent of the effects of various vehicles of content on subsequent action (and hence, of course, on memory).

– Daniel Dennett

I have realised just how important it is to readers to feel that fictional stories are based on reality.

– Nicole Krauss

Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.

– Edward Albee

The word ‘Christianity’ is already a misunderstanding – in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.

– Friedrich Nietzsche

These are ideas. I could say that they just came to me, but it would be more accurate to say that I went to them. Ideas – and new connections between ideas – lead you away from commonly held perceptions of reality. Ideas lead you out here. Ideas lead you into the darkness.

– Dave Sim

People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on eachother, like a wall of mini stones.

– Donald Knuth

I suffer from Irish-Catholic guilt. Guilt is a good reality check. It keeps that ‘do what makes you happy’ thing in check.

– Edward Burns

I love talk shows and hosting. I would want to do something like that. I’m not sure I would want to be a reality star continuously.

– NeNe Leakes

I must begin by saying something about the old Germany. That Germany, too, suffered from superficial judgment, because appearances and reality were not always kept apart in people’s minds.

– Gustav Stresemann

I am a single mother – that is the reality.

– Emilia Fox

One thus sees that a new kind of theory is needed which drops these basic commitments and at most recovers some essential features of the older theories as abstract forms derived from a deeper reality in which what prevails in unbroken wholeness.

– David Bohm

I loved the logistical reality of a guy who wants to take over the world, yet who has a family too.

– Mike Myers

It’s really hard to separate fantasy from reality.

– Cathy Rigby

It’s actually pretty complex, because there’s two levels of reality in the narrative. One is what really took place, and the other is Spider’s poisoned version of what took place.

– Gabriel Byrne

We tend to do period stuff because it helps make it one step removed from boring everyday reality.

– Ethan Coen

A major focus of ‘Reality Hunger’ is appropriation and plagiarism and what these terms mean. I can hardly treat the topic deeply without engaging in it. That would be like writing a book about lying and not being permitted to lie in it.

– David Shields

In Hollywood, moviemaking used to be about escaping reality to go to the movies.

– Chris Kattan

A sacrament is a visible sign of an invisible reality.

– Mother Angelica

Alternative descriptions of the same reality evoke different emotions and different associations.

– Daniel Kahneman

Creation’s gold mine is in you. The key is deliberate intention. Whatever your dream may be at this moment, identify it. If you cannot define your desire, it can never become a reality.

– Mary Manin Morrissey

In reality, quitting Facebook is much more problematic than the company’s executives suggest, if only because users cannot extract all the intangible social capital they have generated on the site and export it elsewhere.

– Evgeny Morozov

What the computer in virtual reality enables us to do is to recalibrate ourselves so that we can start seeing those pieces of information that are invisible to us but have become important for us to understand.

– Douglas Adams

People build up a picture of Johnny Depp as being some sort of weird pirate character. In reality he’s incredibly nice… one of the nicest people I’ve ever met.

– Freddie Highmore

Photograph the world as it is. Nothing’s more interesting than reality.

– Mary Ellen Mark

I believe that the fact and the reality of homosexuality and heterosexuality and of opposite and same-gender unions should be taught in our public schools without a value judgement system also being offered.

– Ed Case

No one feels another’s grief, no one understands another’s joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by.

– Franz Schubert

I’ve always liked fairy tale and spectacle. I wouldn’t say I was a fantasy fan, but anything beyond reality I’ve always found exciting – the work of David Lynch, the work of Tim Burton. But for me, I also love those things that are absolutely about human relationships.

– Gwendoline Christie

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