Quotes tagged ‘Reality’

“Shadow: Wasn't supposed to snow today. Wasn't even supposed to be cold. Wednesday: So, you're perfectly okay believing that tiny people on television can predict the weather. But you crinkle with consternation at the mere suggestion that you could make it snow. Shadow: One of those things is science…”

— Maria Melnik, Mr. Wednesday, Ian McShane, imdb.com

“It is in the nature of medicine, that you are gonna screw up. You are gonna kill someone. If you can't handle that reality, pick another profession or finish medical school and teach.”

— David Shore, Dr. Gregory House, Hugh Laurie, imdb.com

“The time has come for you to seek the Path. Your soul has set you face to face before the clear light... and now you are about to experience it in its Reality, wherein all things are like the void and cloudless sky, and the naked, spotless intellect is like a transparent vacuum, without circumferenc…”

— Harley Peyton, Robert Engels, Mark Frost, Special Agent Dale Cooper, Kyle MacLachlan, imdb.com

“Half of eternity is still eternity. Infinity and Zero are different degrees of the same value. Pain isn't real beyond the individual who feels it.”

— Peter Chung, Steve De Jarnatt, Michael Ferris, John D. Brancato, Trevor Goodchild, John Rafter Lee, imdb.com

“Stan: You know, I think I've learned something today. It's really easy not to think of images on TV as real people, but they are. That's why it's easy to ignore those commercials but people on TV are as real as you or I. Kyle: That means that MacGyver is a real person, too!”

— Matt Stone, Trey Parker, Stan Marsh, Trey Parker, imdb.com

“Just because you believe something is true does not make it real.”

— Edward Kitsis, Adam Horowitz, Emma Swan, Jennifer Morrison, imdb.com

“The power to change reality is only outweighed by the cost.”

— Edward Kitsis, Adam Horowitz, The Apprentice, Timothy Webber, imdb.com

“If you’re reading this.. The internet isn’t reality. The things people are typing are words in an app you can choose to ignore. Put your phone down, close your eyes, count to 10 Think about how you can make the world a better place in the real world. We need you out here.”

— Lizzo, twitter.com

“It's okay. We met and we talked and it was epic, but then the sun came up and reality set in.”

— Julie Plec, Kevin Williamson, Elena Gilbert, Nina Dobrev, imdb.com

“Yes, we may think we're all destined to play certain roles, but sometimes those roles can unexpectedly change: a nervous student may discover a hidden confidence; a long time wife may confront a harsh reality; a busy mother may find her attention needed elsewhere; and a woman who wanted to do a litt…”

— Marc Cherry, David Flebotte, Mary Alice Young, Brenda Strong, imdb.com

“This isn't how I want it to be, how either of us want it to be. This is what it is. Let's stop pretending. Let's just be here.”

— Matt Byrne, Shonda Rhimes, Olivia Pope, Kerry Washington, imdb.com

“Beth: Sorry Jerry, you're real. Jerry: [crying] I'm a parasite! Beth: Yeah... but you're real.”

— Mike McMahan, Justin Roiland, Dan Harmon, Beth Smith (voice), Sarah Chalke, imdb.com

“And who's to say this isn't what happens? Who can tell me that my fantasies won't come true? Just this once...”

— Bill Lawrence, John 'J.D.' Dorian, Zach Braff, imdb.com

“Strong and independent? I'm neither one. I'm just being pushed along by reality, whether I like it or not.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“I no longer had any idea what was right and what was wrong. Was I really seeing the real world?”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“There seems to be nothing that is true — all is false and unreal — I cannot understand!”

— Marie Corelli, amazon.com

“It is here, standing at the crossroads of Should and Must, that we feel the enormous reality of our fears, and this is the moment when many of us decide against following our intuition, turning away from that place where nothing is guaranteed, nothing is known, and everything is possible.”

— Elle Luna, amazon.com

“Truth is truth, however much you may wish to blind your eyes to its manifestations.”

— Marie Corelli, amazon.com

“Reality does not go away when it is ignored.”

— Thomas Sowell, amazon.com

“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hit…”

— H. P. Lovecraft, amazon.com