All Quotes

Real writers - serious writers with serious subjects, who earn their living at it - all seem to write in small rooms with that knotty-pine 1974 look on the top-floor rear of their houses. Rooms with views.
‐‐ Peter York

Realise when you are 'middle aged' you have a chance for a whole second career, another love, another life.
‐‐ Sharon Stone

Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives rather than gymnastics of style or literary trends. It's a certain kind of academic who undervalues realism, largely because it is not amenable to endless exegesis.
‐‐ Vikram Seth

Realism implicated that imperialism and imperialist conquests or prestige can be pursued as part of the animus dominandi, the desire to dominate, which is the social force that determines political activity.
‐‐ Nayef Al-Rodhan

Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.
‐‐ Federico Fellini

Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite.
‐‐ Crispin Glover

Realism is not a matter of any fidelity to an empirical reality, but of the discursive conventions by which and for which a sense of reality is constructed.
‐‐ John Fiske

Realism isn't something most people associate with the fantasy genre, yet it's an essential element of great fantasy writing.
‐‐ Lynn Flewelling

'Realistic' is a loaded word for me. Anyone who uses the word 'realistic' is all bad.
‐‐ David R. Brower

Realistic novels simply pretend that the rules of their invented worlds are identical to the rules of actual life, but that's a ruse.
‐‐ John Crowley

Realistically, English is a universal language; it's the number one language for music and for communicating with the rest of the world.
‐‐ Enrique Iglesias

Realistically, I think we are not prepared to go home until we do get more teachers and lower class sizes.
‐‐ John Podesta

Realistically, it's the great truism that screenwriters are fungible, that at the end of the day a studio is not going to want to fire a movie star. And they're really not going to want to fire a star director because the director has the hand on the tiller of a ship.
‐‐ John Logan

Realistically speaking, I don't know how many more years I will want to be acting or will be invited to be.
‐‐ Jennifer Aniston

Realistically, the chance of any book becoming a film is slim.
‐‐ Kenneth Oppel

Realistically, we could aim for the top three in the constructors championship. Realistically, we could look at winning more races. Three race wins would be very satisfying.
‐‐ Damon Hill

Realists do not fear the results of their study.
‐‐ Fyodor Dostoevsky

Reality always outstrips fiction. Whatever you make up, something more incredible always pops up in real life.
‐‐ David Walliams

Reality can be elastic, and I want to see how elastic it can be, you know?
‐‐ Yoko Ono

Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?
‐‐ George A. Moore

Reality continues to ruin my life.
‐‐ Bill Watterson

Reality does get a bad rap. But I'm not concerned about it 'cause I know who I am. They can edit it, but you are in charge of what you do.
‐‐ Niecy Nash

Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
‐‐ Gustave Flaubert

Reality does not easily give up meaning; it's the biographer's job to clobber it into submission. You're meant not only to tame it but to extract substance, to identify cause and axiomatic effect. You subsist on the tactical omissions, the hollow words, the oddly unconnected dots.
‐‐ Stacy Schiff

Reality doesn't bite, rather our perception of reality bites.
‐‐ Anthony J. D'Angelo

Reality doesn't interest me.
‐‐ Leni Riefenstahl

Reality has a way of intruding. Reality eventually intrudes on everything.
‐‐ Joe Biden

Reality has a well-known liberal bias.
‐‐ Stephen Colbert

Reality has always been too small for the human imagination. We're always trying to transcend.
‐‐ Brenda Laurel

Reality in movies is the reality of the story you're telling, so it may not match the reality as we know it, but the reason there's art is that it tries to bring some kind of understanding of all the suffering and joys and pain that we go through. Storytelling brings some value to it.
‐‐ Caleb Deschanel

Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
‐‐ Graham Greene

Reality is a dirty word for me, I know it isn't for most people, but I am not interested. There's too much of it about.
‐‐ Ken Russell

Reality is a genre that seems to be here to stay. I don't know how many of the new shows will last, but the more competition you have, the harder that pie is to slice up.
‐‐ Jeff Probst

'Reality' is a notion that journalists take for granted.
‐‐ Andrew O'Hagan

Reality is a powerful solvent.
‐‐ Tony Judt

Reality is a sliding door.
‐‐ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reality is always extraordinary.
‐‐ Mary Ellen Mark

Reality is an acquired taste.
‐‐ Robert Fritz

Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical.
‐‐ Tom Robbins

Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work.
‐‐ Lauryn Hill

Reality is hard. It is no walk in the park, this thing called Life.
‐‐ Patty Duke

Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.
‐‐ Yann Martel

Reality is, I'm an actor and an entertainer, and I really wouldn't know what to do with another profession.
‐‐ Russell Crowe

Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.
‐‐ Robin Williams

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
‐‐ Albert Einstein

Reality is not always probable, or likely.
‐‐ Jorge Luis Borges

Reality is not simply there, it must be searched and won.
‐‐ Paul Celan

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
‐‐ Lily Tomlin

Reality is observer-determined - it's a spatio-temporal process, which fortunately means that things must change.
‐‐ Robert Lanza

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.
‐‐ Alan Watts