Even before I started photography, I began to see that there was a disjunction between available languages and reality.

The spirit of creation is the spirit of contradiction. It is the breakthrough of appearances toward an unknown reality.

This missile test reflects India's mindset, ... India's desire to control the subcontinent will never become a reality.

My grandkids say, "Reality Bites." O.K., but it also challenges and rewards... I believe our best days are yet to come.

If you don't have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if not from dreams?

It's very difficult to ignore humanitarian disasters. The royalties from my albums continue to support my charity work.

If God is a reality, and the soul is a reality, and you are an immortal being, what are you doing with your Bible shut?

At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.

Each of us wages a private battle each day between the grand fantasies we have for ourselves and what actually happens.

I've always been kind of an escape artist. I think that I thought the day-to-day reality of things was unbearably flat.

Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.

The reality is that our independent judiciary is the most respected branch of our government and the envy of the world.

Nothing gets done (in Congress) unless it's bipartisan. And the reason that matters is that it's a function of reality.

For thirty years I sought God. But when I looked carefully I found that in reality God was the seeker and I the sought.

I don't think movies or television have any basis in reality at all. It's all just pretend. That's what's fun about it.

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.

Readers probably haven't heard much about it yet, but they will. Quantum technology turns ordinary reality upside down.

Reality is like a doughnut: Everything that is good and funny and juicy is outside the center, which is just emptiness.

Last Vegas is a counterfeit version of the New Jerusalem. And it shares something of the glorious reality that it mocks.

If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's going to happen anyhow.

If I had created reality television I would have had a much greater influence, but then I would have had to KILL MYSELF.

A symbol always transcends the one who makes use of it and makes him say in reality more than he is aware of expressing.

Hope is not just... out in the sky, or accepting the facts or reality. Hope is having optimistic, positive expectations.

Too much reality in a picture is always a disappointment to the imaginative soul. We love suggestion and not hard facts.

My heart is so heavy when I see the reality of the Indian reservation and as an American, I know I am, too, responsible.

Human vision is endowed with the greatest Reality, since it comes to us directly from the contemplation of the Universe.

More than ever, the creation of the ridiculous is almost impossible because of the competition it receives from reality.

she was richer in those dreams than in realities; for things seen pass away, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

Experience as much as you can and absorb a lot of reality. Otherwise, your writing will have the force of a Wiffle ball.

Reality has become a parallel universe with photographers returning with different versions of what it truly looks like.

In reality, a cell is a biological mini-me compared to the human body. A cell has every biological system that you have.

The herculean task of a photographer is to capture a momentary frame as beautiful in reality, as it would be in a dream.

Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but that's not reality, it's just another aesthetic form of fiction.

As a child, I wanted to marry a farmer, but no doubt the reality would have been very different to the idyll in my head.

The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality.

It is not easy to free myth from reality or rear this fellow up to lutch, lurch with them in the tranced dancing of men.

But Love is the final reality; and anyone who does not understand this, be he writer or sage, is a man flawed in wisdom.

The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.

True sympathy is putting ourselves in another's place; and we are moved in proportion to the reality of our imagination.

I knew it wasn't good when it happened. It's definitely scary. Every now and then, something brings you back to reality.

What happens to the wide-eyed observer when the window between reality and unreality breaks and the glass begins to fly?

There is talk of the failure of socialism, and where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia, and in Latin America?

For a woman to be considered a celebrated beauty is not exactly a bad thing. I think we have to say that in all reality.

The power of movies lies in the fact that it enables the viewer to enter the reality, to some extent, of the characters.

Everyone is always having their attention divided between the world of the people [they're] with and this other reality.

If reality is not what you want it to be, change it. You should not accept anything blindly, not death, not immortality.

We must accept our reality as vastly as we possibly can; everything, even the unprecedented, must be possible within it.

A scientist lives with all reality. There is nothing better. To know reality is to accept it, and eventually to love it.

I am equally proud of all of my architectural projects. It's always rewarding to see an ambitious design become reality.

The reality is that a person who has always struggled with numbers is unlikely to be a great accountant or statistician.

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