Quotes About Reality

Sometimes fact is stranger than fiction.

The adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain.

Read enough books on the body, and you'll find that reality is much stranger than any sci-fi series.

Acting is even stranger than I thought it would be.

On movies, you have a lot of stylists that get things too pretty. Everything gets steamed and ironed. It's just not the way we really behave.

You are here so that I can hear what happened at the top of Stav Kesh. I've learned through my long life that stories are ... fluid. And that the truth is often found in the sum of the parts. So I'll have each of you tell me your own version of events. - Master Lha-Mi

It's only supernatural if nature doesn't allow it," he said.

Androids were never meant to dream.

Everything he had dreamed of for so long had happened. And it was terrible.

Eight in the morning, clear sky, already ninety degrees in the shade, the world was nothing like it had been yesterday.

If the Force is the dream, you are the dreamer, and sometimes you have to wake up. Sometimes you are all you have.

At best the chaotic river, alive in the senses briefly, is discountable, has no standing in definition; before the severity of Cartesian doubt, it does not exist

But I was so wrapped up in sports growing up as a kid, that I think I was going to grow to be a pro ball player. But I found out real quick that was not going to happen.

Beyond the picket fences and the oil wells, the happy endings, and the fairy tales, is the reality of shattered lives and broken dreams. We carry on.

Hear my wife speak of John Lewis and you might picture a stately pleasure dome of ornamental cascades and hanging gardens, staffed by muscular Centaurs who know all there is to know about kitchenware and soft furnishings. But really it's just a big hall full of wanky chrome fridges.

That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.

A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.

I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth.

But in a story, which is a kind of dreaming, the dead sometimes smile and sit up and return to the world.

Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.

A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.

you can tell a true war story if it embarrasses you. If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care for the truth; if you don't care for the truth, watch how you vote. Send guys to war, they come home talking dirty.

Não é possível gerir adequadamente um país se as elites não entendem a tecnologia da mesma forma que entendem a economia, a ideologia ou a propaganda… Uma boa governação e uma boa sociedade estão agora indissociavelmente ligadas a uma compreensão da realidade digital. - Tom Steinberg

Anyhow, it's not so bad.... I mean, when you're dead, you just have to be yourself.