Quotes About Reality

Everyone's expecting you to be playing fantastic football, winning every game, and course it doesn't happen like that.

I'm not sure if men really understand this, but I don't think there's a woman in America who really expects her life to be easy. In our own ways, we all know better!

Nobody expects that just because they've made computers better they're going to give them to you free.

An account of an expedition is not a novel. Therefore an authentic account can never be given, let alone written down by someone who was not present.

There are things I've seen and experienced in this world - things they don't talk about in too many books.

80% of everything I've experienced since the Verve has been depressing.

To see me as a person on screen would be one of the dullest experiences you could ever wish to experience.

For me, it's a matter of balance. Living inside your head and experiencing real things - both are important.

Art in the age of the digital image is completely different from experiencing art in physical form.

What people think when they see me on TV is that they're experiencing me but they're not.

It's about story; it is a social experiment, and people take that into account when they're watching 'Big Brother.'

I'm a simple country neuroscientist, not an expert on democracy, but I do know something about how the brain works and how opinion-reinforcing bubbles can distort the picture of reality we build from the information we encounter on a daily basis.

Anyone who says he is an expert in the market is lying to you. There is no such thing.

When I'm writing books, something weird happens; and the result is the books contain a large amount of what you could call 'supernaturalism.' As a writer, I find I need that to explain the world I'm writing about.

Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you, life where things aren't.

A crime is like a crack in reality, and it is the author's role to explore those cracks. As a writer, I like to see how they impinge on people.

The world is getting so reality-driven these days. It seems to be accelerating exponentially. But it's a dangerous game for a lot of people.

Children didn't shield families from eviction: They exposed them to it.

I didn't have the exposure. I didn't see gay people or hear about them. My family didn't know any. It wasn't something I thought was reality.

External beauty is a bizarre thing to me.

To make extra money, my parents would sell eggs and chickens. I was very little. I remember a chicken's head being chopped off with the chicken running around. I wasn't sure if my imagination was running away with me or if it really happened. It really happened.

'Scary Movie' is very broad, and the reality is extreme.

The reality is that far-right extremism is no longer dominated by loners.

The reality of music itself, which is the fabric of life for me, is where most of my attention is.