Real Quotes - Page 628

Fiction is an elemental force, which has the power to shape reality in its own image - or images, I should say - because reality, like light, exists not only as a single point or particle, but also as an array of possibilities.

Most of the real bad guys in the world are people like you and me; they're not stupid, and you can't smell their horns.

In the end, the overriding factor in whether or not you realize your dreams is going to be you. Not the world. YOU.

It matters not that giants of tribulation torment you. Your prayerful access to help is just as real as when David battled his Goliath. see 1 Samuel 17.

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

People don't realize that the future is just now, but later.

Every moment is a fresh new beginning... a wonderful inauguration of the great cosmic journey through the Universe. We can do whatever we want. We can change reality at any moment.

It's hard to spend years at a time working in total solitude with no reality-check.

Notice, for example, that people who talk about "the joys of childhood" are always adults. Only an adult, utterly remote from the reality of childhood, could suppose it is time of joys.

Occupy Wall Street is a real movement.

As gay people, we always think outside of the box. The irreverent is always important to a drag queen and anyone else who lives outside the box. And this is why drag's important: remember to not take life seriously. It's always important to see the laughter in the illusion that we pretend is real.

Hold on to the reins of Love and don’t be afraid. Hold on to the real behind the false and don’t be afraid.

When I wrote the opera, I made a deal with myself that for at least an hour a day I would work on it, even if it meant just sitting on my piano bench, staring into space and thinking about it. It's about keeping it regular, like your bowel movements - let's get real: it's your bodily artistic movements! It comes from the same place.

It seems like the older I get, the more unreal the world becomes.

Ah! What avails the classic bent And what the cultured word, Against the undoctored incident That actually occurred? And what is Art whereto we press Through paint and prose and rhyme- When Nature in her nakedness Defeats us every time?

It's soothing to realize that my mind's processes are inherently uncontrollable.

We want everyone to prepare themselves for the reality that we are not going to be able to recover significant numbers of people.

The task of understanding is not to replicate in conceptual form something that already exists, but rather to create a wholly new realm, that together with the world given to our senses constitutes the fullness of reality.

I like doing theaters. I like being up close and personal with the fans. It's really cool.

We will never stop illegal immigration until this country has a comprehensive, realistic immigration policy.

So that I saw music as a way of documenting realities from the urban cities of Latin America.

I didn't have any real art training, but when I was about twelve nad thirteen, another boy and I went to a sign painter's house every Friday night and took lessons.

The fact that cartoons are reproduced doesn't mean anything to me as far as whether they are "real art" or not.

You know, as you compose music, you're just off in your own world. You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.

There's a great quote from Henry Kissinger, which I became aware of from reading [Joseph] Heller's Good As Gold. He said: 'Every great achievement was a dream before it became a reality.'