Quotes About Reality

We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard defining edges.

And if you worry that not finishing the food on your plate is a slap in the face of all the hungry people everywhere, you are not living in reality. The truth is that you either throw the food out or you throw it in, but either way it turns to waste. World hunger will not be solved by finishing the garlic mashed potatoes on your plate.

Everything Is a dream until you decide to make it real

As a man thinks so it becomes.

She occasionally daydreamed about being the sort of character in a story who could faint and leave everyone else to sort things out. But that wasn't going to happen.

What were the requirements for using the Language? That the Librarian using it should be able to name and describe what they wanted to happen, and that the Librarian should have the strength to compel reality to change itself. And that the universe could hear her words.

She'd always wondered, or even daydreamed, what it was like to actually work with great detectives, rather than just read about them. It was more annoying than she'd expected.)

She'd always wondered, or even daydreamed, what it was like to actually work with great detectives, rather than just read about them. It was more annoying than she expected.

That's where both the Fae and the dragons fail......."They are defined either by narrative or reality. They don't go beyond that. The only person who can ever set bounds on you should be yourself.

All her life she had been taught that the Language allowed its users to shape reality.

She'd always known that a strong capacity for self-deception and ignoring unpleasant realities had to be useful somewhere.

There is no such thing as genuine truth, only received truth.

My life isn't all running around and screaming, you know.

It's about the power of design and the power of the human spirit. It's above paying anybody to do something stupid for money like reality television does - like ambushing people.

A lake being calm doesn't mean that crocodiles are hungry neither.

Photography is a dish best served raw.

The perfect life, the perfect lie, I realised after Christmas, is one which prevents you from doing that which you would ideally have done (painted, say, or written unpublishable poetry) but which, in fact, you have no wish to do. People need to feel that they have been thwarted by circumstances from pursuing the life which, had they led it, they would not have wanted; whereas the life they really want is precisely a compound of all those thwarting circumstances.

People say it's not what happens in your life that matters, it's what you think happened. But this qualification, obviously, did not go far enough. It was quite possible that the central event of your life could be something that didn't happen, or something you thought didn't happen. Otherwise there'd be no need for fiction, there'd only be memoirs and histories...

but dreams on paper are never as good as the real thing.

Family is what it can be, not what it should be.

You do realize you had absolutely nothing to do with winning those tickets, right, Reese?

Ed. Note: Unfortunately true (also happens in back seat of cars) (#HardToLiveWith)

The Circus Circus is what the whole hep world would be doing on Saturday night if the Nazis had won the war.

There is no such thing as fun for the whole family