Come to me and show me a small cancer and I'll tell you you've got a small cancer that should be cut… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The opinion which is fated to be ultimately agreed to by all who investigate, is what we mean by the truth, and… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
... Capitalism will behave antisocially if it is profitable for it to do so, and that can now mean human devastation on… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
The situation of the Old Left was the theory of Socialist Realism, etc. It seemed pointless to argue. We stayed carefully away… — George Oppen Copy Share Image
... the ordinary is simply the universal observed from the surface, that the direct approach to reality is not without, but within.… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
The social realism of ' Establishment Blues' or 'Like Janis,' are what I chose to use to express what was happening in… — Sixto Rodriguez Copy Share Image
All seemingly profound thinking which passes for realism, because it conveniently does away with all troublesome principles, has agreat attraction for the… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
No poetic phantasy but a biological reality, a fact: I am an entity like bird, insect, plant or sea-plant cell; I live;… — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
I dream about speaking in big forums about issues that need to be spoken about. I dream about helping others who I… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
There is an instinct for realism, a powerful drive to reproduce oneself. The fascination of photorealistic paintings lies partly in their apparent… — Audrey Flack Copy Share Image
I think you can be much truer to real emotions and reality by creating something that on the surface seems artificial but,… — Yorgos Lanthimos Copy Share Image
Artists forget than the first purpose of a comic character is to convey emotion. Everything else, like realism, or other kinds of… — Ted Naifeh Copy Share Image
The real, then, is that which, sooner or later, information and reasoning would finally result in, and which is therefore independent of… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Spirituality is about being ready. All the spiritual disciplines of your life - prayer, study, meditation or ritual, religious vows - are… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
The core of the film [Hunt for the Wilderpeople] is that relationship. Whether they're getting on or whether they're not. If that… — Sam Neill Copy Share Image
“You'd like Freedom, Truth, and Justice, wouldn't you, Comrade Sergeant?' said Reg encouragingly. 'I'd like a hard-boiled egg,' said Vimes, shaking the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
For the most part, I think video games do a good job of capturing the essence of boxing. However, I'd like to… — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share Image
In stamping photography with the patent of realism, society does nothing but confirm itself in the tautological certainty that an image of… — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
You try to make characters you care about, and I think realism helps. Even though this is a high concept, the characters… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
Hyperrealism is more about objectifying... how an object can be portrayed when it is seen through a camera's lens... all my paintings… — Liu Dan Copy Share Image
What interests me about fiction is, in part, its flickering edge between realism and where a tear in the fabric of a… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
“The people are like an audience watching a drama. They have characters whose sides they chose even before the start of the… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
It's not that I don't believe in a God. It's that I prefer to have my beliefs to offer more than a… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
If your friend changes plans or ignores you after you've made plans with him for a while JUST to hangout with his… — Chad Copy Share Image
Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because,… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
Completely true to nature!' - what a lie: / How could nature ever be constrained into a picture? / The smallest bit… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
As we applaud the hard-edged realism of the opening battle scene of Saving Private Ryan, we cringe at the thought of seeing… — Tim Robbins Copy Share Image
I like it when characters are some combination of appealing and maybe flawed or self-interested. I think in terms of scenes, and… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
Every realistic picture represents a choice as to which features of reality should be given prominence; no painting ever captures the whole... — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Realism in foreign policy means careful consideration of all aspects pertinent to the issue, before taking a decision. This is the only… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument and without the constant attention of highly qualified… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Gaze no more in the bitter glass The demons, with their subtle guile, Lift up before us when they pass, Or only… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm influencing younger artists - they're not trying to be me. But I don't say that in bitterness. I… — Brad Paisley Copy Share Image
This strange business of what it is to be a writer is this increasingly insane world in which we live, in which… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from faith. If the realist once believes, then he… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
All things in my novels are real for me. Some western critics said that Garcia Marquez's novels are magic realism. However, I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
We thought we were being mature when we were only being safe. We imagined we were being responsible but were only being… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
In creating the Harry Potter artwork, I try to bring a certain amount of realism and believability to the characters and setting,… — Mary Grandpre Copy Share Image
Listen to me: a family man is never a real family man. An assassin is never entirely assassin. They play a role,… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
It has generally been assumed that of two opposing systems of philosophy, e.g., realism and idealism, one only can be true and… — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image