Quotes About Reality

I'm not under the illusion that everything's just going to be hunky-dory work wise forever. I've never been under that illusion. Things could go away tomorrow.

One of the pitfalls of writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these wise, beyond-their-years creatures or else these sad-eyed, tragic people. And the truth is people living with cancer are very much like people who are not living with cancer.

Believe it or not, me and Bez choose the reality TV we do wisely.

I have become a little more cynical and, I would like to believe, a little wiser. When I first came to Mumbai, I was very idealistic. Now I can look anyone in the face and tell a lie. But I'm in a good place.

I am nervous about what people think of me now that I am out of the 'Bigg Boss' house. But I do feel that I have become wiser by being in the show.

In a movie we try to deceive. In theaters, as they say, the deceived are the wisest.

I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them.

Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.

With photography a new language has been created. Now for the first time it is possible to express reality by reality. We can look at an impression as long as we wish, we can delve into it and, so to speak, renew past experiences at will.

You have to show reality as it is, not as you wish it to be.

I wish I was a great cricket player, but I am not.

I wish people could achieve what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that that's not really what happiness is.

I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.

The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.

There's not much you can complain about - you're a Major League Baseball player; you're getting paid to play a game. People want to be you, wish they could do what you do. There are some complaints here and there, but there really aren't any significant ones.

My son died from cancer. My granddaughter died from cancer. I have a lot of reasons to think that reality is not a friendly neighborhood. And the stories that I tell distract me, and if I do the job right, they distract people from things that are happening to them that they wish had never happened.

People say to me 'You're a big Hollywood star', and I find it so funny. I still feel as though I'm the girl from Golders Green. I lead such a boring, normal life. I still go shopping in Sainsbury's. If the ability to do that was taken away from me, I'd go barmy. You lose your freedom. Be careful what you wish for.

Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality.

All great sci-fi is: Be careful what you wish for.

I have certainly seen my share of the world as it really is and not how I wish it would be.

More than once, I've wished my real life had a delete key.

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.

I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.

I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.