Quotes About Realism

I am keen to do roles that are down-to-earth, appealing, and sensitive.

If 'Game Of Thrones' hadn't been made, I don't think 'The Last Kingdom' would have been, but this is more grounded in real life.

I don't connect with shows where we have women looking ultra-glamorous all the time, including in the kitchen.

No crime lab in the world looks like the 'CSI' ones because there's simply not the money for all those fancy machines.

Mine is not the faith of wishful thinking. It's faith with arms and legs, days and nights, eyes and ears.

Sighing dismally, she acknowledged that some things just weren't humanly possible - not even Martha Stewart could fold fitted sheets.

Philosophers should consider the fact that the greatest happiness principle can easily be made an excuse for a benevolent dictatorship. We should replace it by a more modest and more realistic principle - the principle that the fight against avoidable misery should be a recognized aim of public policy, while the increase of happiness should be left, in the main, to private initiative.

Denying realism amounts to megalomania.

The reality of time and change seemed to me the crux of realism.

Do you ever think you're being an idealist? Do you ever wonder if you're holding out for something that doesn't exist? I'm not being pessimistic, and although I'd like to believe that a boom or we or us exists, I'm not sure I do anymore. Maybe I've been holding out for something that's unrealistic.

Most passport pictures are good likenesses, and it is time we faced it.

Les musulmans en Espagne ne furent persécutés qu'à partir du moment où le clergé était devenu trop puissant par rapport au pouvoir temporel ; celui-ci, qui relève de l'empereur, représente dans ce cas l'universalité ou le « réalisme », et partant la « tolérance », donc aussi, par la force des choses, un certain élément de sagesse.

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Man must use what he has, not hope for what is not.

I'm honest. It's the world that's awful - Sandor Clegane, The Hound. ASOIAF

Life is messy," Dr. Lau was fond of saying. "Deal with it. If you're judging it, you're not really seeing it.

I like all weddings, but isn't it particularly lovely when two grown-ups decide to get married?" Lambiase's mother would like to see her son remarry some day. "I know what you mean, Ma. Doesn't seem like they're going in with their eyes closed," Lambiase says. "He knows she isn't perfect. She knows he definitely isn't perfect. They know there's no such thing as perfect.

Beauties" by Anton Chekhov, "The Doll's House" by Katherine Mansfield, "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" by J. D. Salinger, "Brownies" or "Drinking Coffee Elsewhere" both by ZZ Packer, "In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried" by Amy Hempel, "Fat" by Raymond Carver, "Indian Camp

Life is messy. Deal with it. If you're judging it, you're not really seeing it" -Dr. Lau

Su madre siempre le dice que por culpa de las novelas es incapaz de apreciar a los hombres de carne y hueso, observación que Amelia se toma como un insulto, ya que da a entender que solo lee libros con héroes románticos clásicos.

The times are permanently bad…. To imagine a way of life that could be patched up is to think of the cosmos as a vast plumbing affair. To expect others to do what we are unable to do ourselves is truly to believe in miracles."74

But regrettably, whether through a failure of nerve, or out of false optimism — hoping for improvement in an incurable condition — many people end up making the process of dying more protracted than it has to be.

I think most of us who have been married for any substantial length of time realize that the romantic roller coaster of courtship eventually evens out to the terrain of a Midwest interstate - long, flat stretches with an occasional overpass.

Do you know how gemologists tell a fake emerald from a real one? The fakes are perfect. Real emeralds have flaws. None of us is perfect.