Quotes About Reality

We as people often subscribe to hope to feel better about our lives, to escape the harsh and sometimes cruel injustices of the world.

El Santo's movies were kind of out there, but Mil Mascaras did the more reality-based type sci-fi movies. You could say he was one of the first to open the notion for those that subscribe to the mentality that this is sports-entertainment.

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

We must get the American public to look past the glitter, beyond the showmanship, to the reality, the hard substance of things. And we'll do it not so much with speeches that will bring people to their feet as with speeches that bring people to their senses.

Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

People think I don't have substance and I'm just another pretty face.

Substance must itself be said of the modes and only of the modes.

The substance of fictional architecture is not bricks and mortar but evanescent consciousness.

Einstein said, if everything exists as a substance of qualities, and qualities exist only in mind, then all is mind.

Something can be real - actually existing, not merely illusory - and yet not be fundamental. Scientists used to think that heat, for example, was a fluidlike substance called 'caloric' that flowed from hot objects to colder ones.

People think of me as a mannequin, all show and no substance.

Even a song on the radio that completely lacks substance is there for a reason. Sometimes, people need a break from cold reality; the song that you really don't have to put that much thought power into can be just as entertaining as something that might take you on a three- or four-minute cruise through the depth of reality.

My parents covered police pursuits, and it was, in many ways, the beginnings of reality show TV in this captivating story that was a lot of flash but not all that much substance.

Meditation is such a more substantial reality than what we normally take to be reality.

People assumed that I wasn't open to doing TV, probably because I was doing a film and reality shows. I have become choosy and want to take up substantial roles.

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

The hoax is the very absence of truth, which usually means art is absent, too - hoaxes regularly substitute claims of reality for imagination, facts for form, acting as if artifice is the antithesis of art.

Acting is a bit of a substitute for life.

If you're living with a scientist, you see the world differently than you do with a humanist. It's in some ways very subtle, the differences in perceiving reality.

I just like to keep things small and subtle and authentic, and ground everything in reality. So that is something that I feel is my strength as a director and I try to achieve as an actor.

I've always wanted Americans to see what's happening to their country from the comfort of their suburban homes and their smart phones. I want people to see the beginning of the end of the greatest economic machine that the world has ever seen: America.

I expected to be doing basement theater in the suburbs of Stockholm.

We're called New Jersey but we're actually the suburbs of New York.

Growing up, I imagined I would come to New York, get married, move to the suburbs and have kids. It just didn't happen that way.