Brad Pitt  - Quotes

 Shoving feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken. 

Tags: butts   chickens   feathers   reality     


Carlos Fuentes  - Quotes

 Robinson Crusoe, the first capitalist hero, is a self-made man who accepts objective reality and then fashions it to his needs through the work ethic, common sense, resilience, technology, and, if need be, racism and imperialism. 

Tags: capitalism   imperialism   racism   reality     
Tim Burton  - Quotes

 One person's craziness is another person's reality. 

Tags: craziness   insanity   perspective   reality   sanity     


John Lennon  - Quotes

 Nothing is real. 

Tags: beatles   reality   truth     
Shannon Hale  - Quotes

 Sometimes my fancy gets to floating inside me, threatening to carry me away like a leaf on a wind. Better to be a stone. 

Tags: hope   reality     
Tom Cruise  - Quotes

 Perception and reality are two different things. 

Tags: perception   reality   things     
Laozi  - Quotes

 Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. 

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Thunderheart  - Quotes

 Jimmy Looks Twice:
We choose the right to be who we are. We know the difference between the reality of freedom and the illusion of freedom. There is a way to live with the earth and a way not to live with the earth. We choose the way of earth. It's about power, Ray.
 

Lewis Black  - Quotes

 They're so broke that they've actually cut essential services. In many places, they've cut policemen, because, who the fuck needs them? Or firemen, son of a bitch, it's much more fun watching something burn down. 

Tags: broke   budget   comedy   economy   fire   police   reality   taxes   truth     
John Lennon  - Quotes

 I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now? 

Tags: beatles   dragons   dreamers   dreaming   dreams   fairies   faith   mythology   nightmares   reality   truth     
Event Horizon  - Quotes

 Miller:
Weir?
Dr. Weir:
[laughing] The ship brought me back. I told you she won't let me leave - she won't let anyone leave. Did you really think you could destroy this ship? She's defied space and time. She's been to a place you couldn't possibly imagine. And now... it is time to go back.
Miller:
[sounding bored] I know. To hell.
Dr. Weir:
You know nothing. Hell is only a word. The reality is much, much worse.
 

No Direction Home: Bob Dylan  - Quotes

 Allen Ginsberg:
There is a very famous saying among Tibetan Buddhists: "If the student is not better than the teacher, then the teacher is a failure."
Allen Ginsberg:
It's sort of a biblical prophecy.
Allen Ginsberg:
Poetry is words that are empowered to make your hair stand on end, that you realize instantly as being some form of subjective truth that has an objective reality to it, because somebody has realized it. Then you call it poetry later.
 

Edward Scissorhands  - Quotes

 Officer Allen:
Will he be OK, Doc?
Psychologist:
The years spent in isolation have not equipped him with the tools necessary to judge right from wrong. He's had no context. He's been completely without guidance. Furthermore, his work - the garden sculptures, hairstyles and so forth - indicate that he's a highly imaginative... uh... character. It seems clear that his awareness of what we call reality is radically underdeveloped.
Officer Allen:
But will he be all right out there?
Psychologist:
Oh yeah, he'll be fine.
 

John Lennon  - Quotes

 Reality leaves a lot to the imagination. 

Tags: beatles   imagination   reality     
Emilie Autumn  - Quotes

 Why can I never go back to bed? Who's is the voice ringing in my head? Where is the sense in these desperate dreams? Why should I wake when I'm half past dead? 

Tags: insanity   insomnia   reality   sleep   wake     
Prozac Nation  - Quotes

 Elizabeth:
Now mom and dad really had something to fight over: me. Then one day my dad disappeared. No numbers, no letters - just gone. I wrote to seventeen magazine, a long letter about us. They wanted to publish it as an article, but kept asking, your dad going away, does he come back? Does it have a happy ending? In reality it didn't, but I thought, what the hell, I'll give them what they want.
 

Tags: Day Quotes   Letters Quotes   Reality Quotes     
White Out  - Quotes

 Hannah Lorenz:
Back to Reality with Nick Watson.
Nick Watson:
Thank you. You know I've been doing this for four years. With only a brief hiatus before this past year to interrupt. And I've discussed with you all manners of silly subjects. From my comments about snipers on the borders to Canada and Mexico...
Andy Wolcienski:
That's an idea I still support, by the way.
Nick Watson:
It's a good idea. To my line of Pope products for the Pope's unfortunately canceled visit to the United States.
Andy Wolcienski:
I still want my "Pope-On-A-Rope!"
 

Blood of the Beast  - Quotes

 Stevie:
That's a reality check, kids. We're in the South, where ignorance is worn like a badge of honor.
 

Tags: Ignorance Quotes   Reality Quotes     
Michael Cunningham  - Quotes

 How are you feeling, man? 

Tags: acid   assurance   brothers   confidence   drugs   reality     
Aladdin  - Quotes

 Iago:
Ladies and gentlemen, a warm Agrabah welcome for Sorcerer Jafar!
Jafar:
Now where were we? Ah, yes - abject humiliation! [He zaps Jasmine and the Sultan with his staff, and they both bow to him. Rajah comes running at him. He zaps Rajah, and the tiger turns into a kitty-cat]
Jafar:
Down, boy! Oh, princess, [lifts Jasmine's chin with his staff]
Jafar:
there's someone I'm dying to introduce you to.
Aladdin:
[Flying towards him on carpet] Jafar! Get your hands off her!
Jafar:
[zaps Aladdin, Carpet flies away. Singing] Prince Ali, yes, it is he, but not as you know him. Read my lips and come to grips with reality [brings Aladdin and Jasmine closer in the air]
Jafar:
Yes, meet a blast from your past, whose lies were too good to last! Say hello to your precious Prince Ali! [zaps Ali back to Aladdin as he says it]
Iago:
Or should we say Aladdin?
Princess Jasmine:
[shocked] Ali
Aladdin:
Jasmine, I tried to tell you.
Jafar:
[still singing] So Ali turns out to be merely Aladdin [turns Abu back to his normal self]
Jafar:
Just a con, need I go on? Take it from me his personality flaws give me adequate cause to send him packing on a one-way trip [sends Aladdin and Abu in a pillar, carpet flies in after the,]
Jafar:
so his prospects take a terminal dip his assets frozen, the venue chosen is the ends of the earth, [sends the pillar in the air]
Jafar:
whoopee! So long,
Iago:
Good bye, see ya!
Jafar:
[sings] Ex-Prince Ali! [laughs maniacly]
 

Timecop  - Quotes

 Eugene Matuzak:
[after catching Ricky with virtual reality porn] Goddammit Ricky, if I catch you fucking this machine again, I'll break your neck!
Ricky:
Sorry chief.
Max Walker:
Looks like safe sex to me
 

Tags: Reality Quotes   Sex Quotes     
Southland Tales  - Quotes

 Madeline Frost Santaros:
Cock Chuggers Two: Cock Chuggin'? Who the fuck makes this shit? Huh?
Boxer Santaros:
Hey, hey, she just cut her own pop album.
Senator Bobby Frost:
"Teen horniness is not a crime. Keep an open heard and an open mind."
Boxer Santaros:
She's developing her own reality show, clothing line, perfume, and not to mention an energy drink which I tried, and her drink tastes really, really good. Can I see the Cock Chuggers?
 

Tags: Energy Quotes   Reality Quotes     
The Butterfly Effect  - Quotes

 
[in the reality where Kayleigh is with Lenny]
Evan:
So, do you think it might have worked?
Kayleigh:
Yeah... But that's not how things wound up... I'm with Lenny, Lenny is your friend... and that's where it ends.
Evan:
Well... Would it make a difference if I told you that no one could possibly ever love anyone as much as I love you? [Kayleigh looks sympathetic about Evan's feelings]
Evan:
...I'm not saying that, I am just saying it like if you were a girl, would that be something you would want to hear?
 

Hubert Selby Jr.  - Quotes

 There was a sky somewhere above the tops of the buildings, with stars and a moon and all the things there are in a sky, but they were content to think of the distant street lights as planets and stars. If the lights prevented you from seeing the heavens, then preform a little magic and change reality to fit the need. The street lights were now planets and stars and moon.  

Tags: change   city   night   reality   stars     
Michael Richardson  - Quotes

 Surrealism, then, neither aims to subvert realism, as does the fantastic, nor does it try to transcend it. It looks for different means by which to explore reality itself. 

Tags: fantastic   fantastique   fantasy   realism   reality   surrealism     
Bright Leaves  - Quotes

 Ross McElwee:
As time goes by, my father is beginning to seem less and less real to me in these images. Almost a fictional character. I want so much to reverse this shift, the way in which the reality of him is slipping away. Having this footage doesn't help very much - or, at least, not as much as I thought it would.
 

Christopher Hitchens  - Quotes

 Even if it were possible to cast my horoscope in this one life, and to make an accurate prediction about my future, it would not be possible to 'show' it to me because as soon as I saw it my future would change by definition. This is why Werner Heisenberg's adaptation of the Hays Office 

Miss Congeniality  - Quotes

 Gracie Hart:
You know what... [grabs Eric in a headlock]
Gracie Hart:
Pull this off! What, is it because Macdonald hates me?
Eric Matthews:
He doesn't hate you!
Gracie Hart:
Is it some woman thing? [Eric knocks her to the floor]
Eric Matthews:
Don't kid yourself! Nobody thinks of you that way! [Gracie trips him and sits on his back, holding him down]
Gracie Hart:
He's punishing me, isn't he?
Eric Matthews:
[under Gracie] Look, I had to beg him to let you do this!
Gracie Hart:
What?
Eric Matthews:
Yeah, like it or not you screwed up, pal! [they roll over attacking each other]
Gracie Hart:
[Sitting on Eric again] This may come as a shock to you but I've never been in a beauty pageant before! I don't even own a dress! I don't even own a brush! [They roll around again]
Eric Matthews:
[with Gracie's thighs squeezing his head] Which part o' that is supposed to shock me? [Gracie slams her thighs against his head and they roll over on the floor again]
Gracie Hart:
[Eric's feet squeezing her face] Jesus! Let's just swing reality for like a second! I have to do everything like the big hair, and the makeup...
Eric Matthews:
Damn right! The spinning, the twirling, the smiling...
Gracie Hart:
[out of breath] So you're saying... I have to wear... the bathing suit?
 

What Joan Knows  - Quotes

 Reality TV Host:
We're here with Susan, who's always known her boyfriend Jim enjoys long walks in the park. But when she began to suspect he was up to more than just stopping to smell the roses, she contacted Caught Cheating, and we have our team of professional trackers along with Susan here for the confrontation.
 

Tags: Reality Quotes   Boyfriend Quotes     
Bruno Bettelheim  - Quotes

 The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are unreal, they are not untrue ... 

Tags: children   comprehension   education   fiction   learning   nonfiction   reading   reality   truth     
Rent  - Quotes

 Collins:
In honor of the death of Bohemia, an improtu salon will commence immediately following dinner. Maureen Johnson, back from her spectacular one-night engagement at the eleventh street lot, will sing Native American tribal chants backwards through her vocorder, while accompanying herself on the electric chello, which she ain't never studied.
Roger:
And Mark Cohen will preview his new documentary about his inability to hold an erection on high holy days.
Mark:
Mimi Marquez, clad only in bubble wrap, will perform her famous lawn chair-handcuff dance to the sound of iced tea being stirred. And Roger will attempt to write a bittersweet, evocative song.
Roger:
[picks up a guitar and plays]
Mark:
That doesn't remind us of Musetta's Waltz.
Collins:
Angel Dumont Schunard will model the latest fall fashions from Paris while accomanying herself on the 10 gallon plastic pickle tub.
Angel:
And Collins will recount his exploits as an anarchist, including the tale of his successful reprogramming of the MIT virtural reality equipment to self-destruct as it broadcast the words:
All:
Actual reality! Act up! Fight AIDS!
 

The Mask  - Quotes

 Niko's Golf Game:
[Niko hits a golf ball, it lands in a virtual reality golf game screen] 198 yards.
Niko:
[turns to see that Dorian has arrived] Hello, Dorian. Thanks for dropping by.
Dorian Tyrell:
Well, next time why don't you call, alright? Leave these delivery boys at home. [Niko grins at the thugs evilly, they force Dorian to ground, and one of them laughs as the other places a wooden tee in Dorian's mouth. He spits the tee out. One of them takes a gun out and holds it to Dorian's head, the other looks at Niko who nods, then places another tee in Dorian's mouth and puts a golf ball on it]
Niko:
[swings club slowly] The cops, ah... tried to shut the club down this morning. They say you've been running the place to make your own small-time scams. I hear things like that, and I start losing my concentration. And my game, it goes straight to HELL! [pulls the club back for swing]
Niko:
You could, too. [swings and hits the ball]
Dorian Tyrell:
Oh, ow!
Niko's Golf Game:
205 yards.
Niko:
I'm fed up with you, Dorian. But I'm gonna cut you a break. One week to get out of town. [brushing Dorian's cheek with the club]
Niko:
After that, I'll use your empty little skull to break in my new 9-iron. [smacks the club away from his face, lifts Dorian up roughly and escorts him out of office]
 

Toba Beta  - Quotes

 In order to survive in a world of instinct,

its' alternative is to hunt or being hunted.

Reject this, then be prepared to be hunted.
 

Tags: hunted   hunter   instinct   reality   survive     
Marya Hornbacher  - Quotes

 When you are mad, mad like this, you don't know it. Reality is what you see. When what you see shifts, departing from anyone else's reality, it's still reality to you. 

Tags: madness   reality     
LolliLove  - Quotes

 James:
[talking about charity causes] There's also the conjoined twins, which are like, those are Siamese twins, and I remember when I was a kid, I thought that it would be really awesome to have a conjoined twin because you'd always have a playmate, someone to hang out with, no matter what you'd never be lonely, but the reality is much more grim than that. It gets old very quickly, and it's hard to maneuver through like, a restaurant or whatever.
 

Laozi  - Quotes

 Do you imagine the universe is agitated? Go into the desert at night and look at the stars. This practice should answer the question. 

Tags: emotions   feelings   reality     
Patrick White  - Quotes

 They walked on rather aimlessly. He hoped she wouldn't notice he was touched, because he wouldn't have known how to explain why. Here lay the great discrepancy between aesthetic truth and sleazy reality. 

Tags: aesthetics   reality   truth   walking     
Freddy vs. Jason  - Quotes

 Deputy Stubbs:
I think we're dealing with a copycat here.
Linderman:
No. No. No, no, no. He's not a copycat. I've seen what he can do. He's the real Jason.
Deputy Stubbs:
That's impossible, Linderman. Jason is dead.
Freeburg:
Yeah, well, you better start thinking outside your little box, dude, 'cause somebody's definitely breaking the fucking reality rules, OK?
 

Tags: Reality Quotes   Art Quotes   Thinking Quotes     
Dean Koontz  - Quotes

 Appearances are not reality; but they often can be a convincing alternative to it. You can control appearances most of the time, but facts are what they are. When the facts are too sharp, you can craft a cheerful version of the situation and cover the facts the way that you can covered a battered old four-slice toaster with a knitted cozy featuring images of kittens. 

Tags: appearances   facts   reality     
Machado de Assis  - Quotes

 I considered the case and realized that if something can exist in opinion without existing in reality, or exist in reality without existing in opinion, the conclusion is that of the two parallel lives, only opinion is necessary  

Tags: existence   opinion   reality     
Being Julia  - Quotes

 Jimmie Langton:
Your only reality is the theater. Anything else, what civilians call the real world, is nothing but fantasy and I bloody well won't let you forget it.
Julia Lambert:
Rubbish.
 

The Man Who Knew Too Little  - Quotes

 Wallace:
Please don't call me by my real name, it destroys the reality I'm trying to create.
 

Tags: Reality Quotes   Trying Quotes     
The Limits of Control  - Quotes

 American:
What is your fucking agenda here? [pause]
American:
You people don't understand a fucking thing about how the world really works.
Lone Man:
I understand. But I understand subjectively.
American:
That's fucking nonsense. Your sick minds have been polluted with crap. Your music, movies, science. Fucking bohemians on hallucinogenic drugs. All that shit has poisoned you. And it has nothing to do with the real world. And I suppose you believe that by eliminating me, you will eliminate control over some fucking artificial reality.
Lone Man:
Reality is arbitrary.
American:
Fuck you.
 

Socrates  - Quotes

 The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we wold appear to be; all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them. 

Tags: greek   honor   reality   socrates     
Rachel Carson  - Quotes

 The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction 

Tags: destruction   ecology   reality   universe   wonder     
As Good as It Gets  - Quotes

 Carol's Date:
Just a little too much reality for a Friday night.
 

Tags: Day Quotes   Reality Quotes     
Don DeLillo  - Quotes

 When I work, I'm just translating the world around me in what seems to be straightforward terms. For my readers, this is sometimes a vision that's not familiar. But I'm not trying to manipulate reality. This is just what I see and hear. 

Tags: familiarity   interpretation   literature   novels   readers   reading   realism   reality   translation   writing     
Kurt Vonnegut  - Quotes

 It appeared to the Elders that the people here would believe anything about themselves, no matter how preposterous, as long as it was flattering. To make sure of this, they performed an experiment. They put the idea into Earthlings' heads that the whole Universe had been created by one big animal who looked just like them. He sat on a throne with a lot of less fancy thrones all around him. When people died they got to sit on those other thrones forever because they were such close relatives of the Creator.

The people down here just ate that up!
 

Tags: creator   fantasy   gods   likeness   reality     
Frank Herbert  - Quotes

 Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic 

Tags: dune   herbert   order   reality   understanding     
Avital Ronell  - Quotes

 To make things 'perfectly clear' is reactionary and stupefying. The real is not perfectly clear. 

Tags: reality     
Ian McEwan  - Quotes

 The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse. Her reverie, once rich in plausible details, had become a passing silliness before the hard mass of the actual. It was difficult to come back. 

Tags: child   daydreaming   fantasy   reality     
Road Trip  - Quotes

 E.L.:
I thought I told you to mail this yesterday?
Rubin:
Yeah, I posted it this morning.
E.L.:
[Josh watches for a second, then the reality hits him] OH FUCK! [Josh scrabbles on the floor for the video]
E.L.:
W-w-w-wait a second. Tell me you mailed the Beth tape to Tiffany. [Josh nods]
E.L.:
Yes!
Josh:
Shit! Oh, no! Oh, no!
Barry:
Hey, hey.
Josh:
What?
Barry:
Did you make a copy? Because if you made a copy we could watch the copy.
 

Tags: Mail Quotes   Reality Quotes   Thought Quotes     
White Out  - Quotes

 Nick Watson:
This is Nick Watson and the big old clock on the wall says fifty-four minutes remain before Reality signs off on WSKO for the last time.
 

Tags: Reality Quotes     
Michael Richardson  - Quotes

 The shifting sands of the world... show how much the surrealists were drawn towards an interrogation of what reality actually is. Unlike fabulists of whatever hue, there is a materiality in surrealist writing that resolutely keeps it, one might say, 'down to earth'. 

Tags: fantastic   fantastique   fantasy   reality   surrealism     
Rick Riordan  - Quotes

 The real world is where the monsters are. 

Tags: monsters   reality   world     
Bertolt Brecht  - Quotes

 Corpses sour you. They are bad for objectivity. 

Tags: corpse   death   objectivity   reality     
If Lucy Fell  - Quotes

 Jane Lindquist:
We're not reality material.
Joe MacGonaughgill:
I didn't know that.
Jane Lindquist:
What's a cute... smart, sexy, good-looking guy... Why haven't you slept with a girl for the last five years?
Joe MacGonaughgill:
I've been saving myself.
Jane Lindquist:
For who?
Joe MacGonaughgill:
I guess I don't know.
 

Tags: Reality Quotes     
Adam Savage  - Quotes

 Reality makes a crappy special effects crew. 

Tags: mythbusters   reality     
Titus Lucretius Carus  - Quotes

 So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains. 

Tags: adversity   heart   peril   reality   truth     
Clive Barker  - Quotes

 [Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion. 

Tags: chaos   horror   illusion   oblivion   reality   truth     


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