More quotations tagged with “reality”
Important days don't look like anything special when they start. Invariably, the sun rises and people wake up. Coffee is swilled and eggs are swallowed. Everybody goes about the business of acting like their lives matter and then, no matter how important the events of the day end up being, the sun invariably sets. The sun rose before the soldiers stormed Omaha Beach on D-Day, and the sun set after Archduke Franz Ferdinand was killed. Sunrises and sunsets are real jerks about putting things in perspective.
—Jules de Gaultier
Realism… has no more to do with reality than anything else.
—Hob Broun
The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.
—Henry Kissinger
I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
—Garrison Keillor
Joel: That's the movies, Ed. Try reality.
Ed: No thanks.
—Ellen Herman