Quotes About Reality

'TOWIE' is opening a lot of doors for me so why would I leave?

It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delivered.

There's nothing like a hit movie to make you think you're one of the chosen people. It's amazing how smart we are the morning after a hit opens.

Opera is full of trappings that make us go away from being human. You can't let them do that. You can't walk like you're in an opera! You have to make it real. You have to just be there.

Perhaps the most powerful lesson other brands can learn from Nike is the need to act in accordance with the reality of the world we live in. In a mutually dependant, intimately connected global community facing several major crises, brands need to operate with an expanded definition of self-interest that includes the greater good.

Most audiences are being attracted to '12 Strong' because of what they might expect to see from a movie like this, which is that the Americans arrive, they march into the camp, they take it over, and take charge. It's like, 'Everything's going to be fine now. We're here.' That's not how these guys operate. They're very different.

Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.

You're entitled your own opinions, but you're not entitled to your own facts.

If we can't agree on objective truth, then how are we ever going to agree on opinions?

It's a very complicated issue about when is a fact not a fact in the context of opinions.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.  Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!

The girl never really lived, and so she has never really died.

The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of faith, and the lesson of romance.

To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit and precipice.

Para la mayoría de nosotros la verdadera vida es la vida que no llevamos.

No theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself

Out of the unreal shadows of night comes back the real life that we had known. We have to resume it where we had left off... p 207

What you have told me is quite a romance, a romance of art one might call it, and the worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic.

The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope. When the Verities become acrobats we can judge them.

The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.

Echan a perder todas las historias de amor intentando que duren para siempre.

She is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair.

But you don't really mean to say that you couldn't love me if my name wasn't Ernest? GWENDOLEN: But your name is Ernest. JACK: Yes, I know it is. But supposing it was something else? Do you mean to say you couldn't love me then? GWENDOLEN (glibly) : Ah! that is clearly a metaphysical speculation, and like most metaphysical speculations has very little reference at all to the actual facts of real life, as we know them.

Man can believe the impossible, but can never believe the improbable