Quotes About Reality

Love can't be a metaphor anymore. If you try to make literature out of it, it doesn't work.

I think people have common sense and can tell what's real, what's right or what's wrong and work it out.

The word story is intended to alert the reader to the fact that, however closely the narrative may fit the facts, the fictional process has been at work.

I want to question the images that are in our memory. There is always a double level in my work; what you see is true and at the same time not true.

People always assume I don't need to work for money, but my divorce settlement was not as much as it's always reported to be.

The grim reality is that most start-ups fail. Most new products are not successful. Yet the story of perseverance, creative genius, and hard work persists.

When I was a young student, I thought grow-ups would come and make things work. Now I realize that grown-ups are just kids with wrinkles.

The bridge between reality and a dream is work.

My life honestly isn't as weird as people think it is. I work longer hours, maybe I have a bit more money, but fundamentally, I'm not really that different.

The work which is manipulated looks a little boring to me. I think life is pretty strange anyway. It is wooo, wooo, wooo!

I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries.

In my work theres always been a duality between sticking to reality and trying to stage things.

Ideas matter. Legislative proposals matter. Slick campaigns and dazzling speeches can work for a while, but the magic always wears off.

The future is only a thought form. Work with the present moment. Be with what is.

The universe does not work by our rules

All these tales of people sitting down and composing symphonies just as though they were writing a letter are very much exaggerated; at least, it isn't that way in my work.

A lot of folks just get it in their head that, for instance, like writing memoirs is just easy. You just write down what happened. It doesn't quite work that way.

One wants one's work to be the world, but of course it's never the world. The work is in the world; it never contains the whole thing.

The cinema is death at work.

How are you going to work with people who seem to have divorced themselves from reality?

Nevertheless, all of us who work in quantum physics believe in the reality of a quantum world, and the reality of quantum entities like protons and electrons.

I think that all stereotypes sort of begin with truth. I think that the only problem is if that's the only place that you go.

I do enjoy a bit of the fantasy world that anime provides, but at the same time, I need the reality in it. I'm very much a stickler about the actual animation. I'm not into the cutesy, stereotypical animation with big eyes and a small chin. That annoys the hell out of me.

Everybody thinks, 'Oh, you're married to Howard Stern... You must be laughing all the time.' Yes, we are laughing all the time, but our lives together, it is not crazy.