Quotes About Reality

I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist... or maybe even a pessimist.

I'm a realist and I always have been.

I write from what I take to be the realist's point of view, looking at life as it really is - or the way I see it to be.

I'm a realist about who really reads books and who acts like they read books.

I'm a realist and I'm not going to shy away from being knocked out.

I'm a realist.

They are imbeciles who call my work abstract. That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.

If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets.

I wanted so badly to have a backup plan for when I'm not performing anymore. Let's be realistic: it's not going to be like this forever.

I have very weirdly realistic dreams where it could be real life, except it's not.

I cannot imagine a more realistic faith than the Christian faith. At every turn, we are told we are death-determined creatures and that our lives, our all too brief lives, at the very least will be complex if not difficult.

Coming back from doing 'The Hobbit,' you think 'Sherlock' is realistic, but of course, it's not that realistic.

I would try to write 'realistic' fiction, and someone would fly, or there would be a black hole full of demons or a girl who attracted frogs.

I was very much inspired by the things that I'd seen and done in politics, but I was also desperate for a complete departure from the reality of my political experience. 'It's Classified' and my previous book 'Eighteen Acres' are both works of fiction, but if they do seem realistic, it's by design.

My stories include realistic fiction and fantasy.

I think, at some point, I might have said it must be great to be as big as Elvis, but that wasn't a realistic dream.

Me playing for the Knicks is not realistic.

I think if people really listened to what our families who serve go through, we could have a realistic discussion of what it means to send young people to war.

I'm always going to give my fans a realistic expectation and let them know that if you think I'm never gonna make a mistake again, go find another YouTuber.

Everyone is filtering their selfies to make them look perfect. We're seeing it more and more in my clinic - patients want to look like a photo they've tweaked. They show me the picture and say: 'This is the new me.' But many times it's not realistic.

I always wanted to be part of a realistic film where there is less to act and more to live.

For me, when I look at a guy I can model my game after, I want to make it realistic and something I can chase and something that's reality.

There are certain realities we must speak of with our children that were not present when I was a child.

Invisible things are the only realities; invisible things alone are the things that shall remain.