Quotes About Reality

Próbuj? wyobrazi? sobie ?wiat przed fotografi? i nie potrafi?. Prawdopodobnie w ogóle nie istnia?, nieustannie przepada?,poch?oni?ty przez ruchliwe, nienasycone zmys?y, nic z niego nie zostawa?o.

Ludzie nie pragn? ?eczy wymy?lonych, poci?ga ich tylko to, co zobaczyli wcze?niej.

Babadag, de nouveau, comme il y a deux ans : le car fait un arrêt de dix minutes, le chauffeur s'éclipse, la marmaille fait la manche sans conviction dans la chaleur torride de midi, rien n'a changé. Seuls les billets de mille lei avec Eminescu ont disparu, remplacés désormais par de petits ronds en aluminium représentant Constantin Brâncoveanu. (p. 308)

Un voyage du pays du roi Ubu au pays du vampire Dracula ne peut pas renfermer de souvenirs auxquels on puisse croire plus tard, comment on croit, par exemple, à l'existence de Paris, de Stonehenge ou de la place Saint-Marc. (p. 22)

Dobrze jest ?y? w krainach nieoczywistych, poniewa? ich granice zawieraj? w sobie wi?cej przestrzeni, ni? wskazuje geografia. To s? otch?anie nieznanego, to jest niesko?czona dal domys?ów, uciekaj?cy horyzont wyobra?e? i fatamorgana s?odkich przes?dów, którym nigdy nie sprosta rzeczywisto??.

Now a little boy or girl, and many an older person, thinks that a spotted horse is the real thing, but practical cattle men know that this freak of color in range-bred horses is the result of in-and-in breeding, with consequent physical and mental deterioration.

A standard is an agreed-upon level of quality or attainment. One. One level of quality or attainment that is agreed upon. In other words, when a society grows comfortable with the idea that there can be many standards, the people have, in effect, accepted the reality that there will be no standard. Anything goes. And that, my friends, is exactly what happened to a once great, once wealthy, once undefeatable world power.

On the top deck, it is easy to believe what one sees is the same throughout the ship. But if one of the officers has slipped below and drilled a hole in the hull, smooth sailing is only an illusion.

I feel kind of normal," I say. "Normal but a little crazy.

I thought I should make a place to bring light down into this world. All things that become realities start in that place of someone imagining them.

Well, there are two kinds of happiness, grounded and ungrounded. Ungrounded happiness is cheesy and not based on reality. Grounded happiness is informed happiness based on the knowledge that the world sometimes sucks, but even then you have to believe in yourself.

living with his aunt and uncle in Pripyat, Yuri can scarcely believe how well they eat. And how full he feels after every meal—uncomfortably so. When he first arrived

That's the trouble with stereotypes: they are not wholly disconnected from the truth.

It's paradoxical that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.

We all ought to understand we're on our own. Believing in Santa Claus doesn't do kids any harm for a few years but it isn't smart for them to continue waiting all their lives for him to come down the chimney with something wonderful. Santa Claus and God are cousins.

It must be hard to be a model, because you'd want to be like the photograph of you, and you can't ever look that way.

Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there -- I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television.

People sometimes say that the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal. The movies make emotions look so strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it's like watching television -- you don't feel anything.

People sometimes say that the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually, it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal. The movies make emotions look strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it's like you're watching television -- you don't feel anything.

No es tan grande prestigio como cree la gente simple, a cada rato nacen chicos con los ojos abiertos, aunque hay que reconocer que en general vienen al mundo con los ojos sensatamente cerrados.

Time is not successive," he said. "It is concrete, cosntant, simultaneous, and not uniform.

Al lector se le llenaron de pronto los ojos de lágrimas, y una voz cariñosa le susurró al oído: —¿Por qué lloras, si todo en este libro es de mentira? Y él respondió: —Lo sé; pero lo que yo siento es de verdad.

Suddenly the reader's eyes were filled with tears, and a loving voice whispered in his ear: -Why are you crying if everything in that book isn't true?- And the reader replied: -I know; but what I feel is real.

Everything had to be in order for you, everything had to make sense. I hope you've learned that some things don't make sense, no matter how hard you try to make sense of them.