“...that realisation that I was the oddity, the statistical probability, life was predictable.” — Ruth Dugdall Copy Share Image
Let the will embrace the highest ideals freely and with infinite strength, but let action first take hold of what lies closest. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
“People don't suddenly just change, you just suddenly see the real them.” — Michelle Blanchard Copy Share Image
“Realism: A post dadaist yearning for the ontological validation of domestic miseries and bygone centuries.” — Carol Novack Copy Share Image
The more people I meet the more I realize that it's only you I want to be with. — Archie Fuentes Copy Share Image
Do you realize that in 40 years, there will be thousands of old women walking with tatoos? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What I've found in my research is that realism and self-honesty are the antidote to ego, hubris, and delusion. — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
“If you see yourself as a man, no one will dare to see you as a kid.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Calls for the simplification of abstract or allusive art have always come from governments suspicious of artists themselves. This is why totalitarian… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides… — Dawn Powell Copy Share Image
Films like 'The Godfather,' 'Chinatown' and 'The Exorcist' brought a realism and currency and understatement to their genres that we wanted for… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
The symbol of all art is the Prism. The goal is unrealism. The method is destructive. To break up the white light… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
I just happened to have my camera and be photographing my friends. It was totally innocent; there was no purpose to the… — Larry Clark Copy Share Image
“Tough love and brutal truth from strangers are far more valuable than Band-Aids and half-truths from invested friends, who don’t want to… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
When using conversation try not to use the words I think think is an indecision. Start it with either I know or… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
What passes for political realism may make for lively academic debates. But it often functions, ironically, as a tool of social control,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Dialogue must appear realistic without being so. Actual realism-the lifting, as it were, of passages from a stenographer's take-down of a 'real… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Abstraction has always been around, since the drawings in the caves. It exists in all cultures all over the world. I thought… — Brice Marden Copy Share Image
Each time I'm starting to work on a film, even if I love to settle the plot in the real world, I… — Arnaud Desplechin Copy Share Image
Political realism is aware of the moral significance of political action. It is also aware of the ineluctable tension between the moral… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It seems to me that you might create any sort of character in a novel and there would be at least one… — Sōseki Natsume Copy Share Image
It was an honor to work with Samantha Morton on this Casablanca-esque, silent-film-esque, Americana photobooth Woolworth's hay day period piece of surrealism/… — Alison Mosshart Copy Share Image
“People who want to stay in your life will make efforts to be there with and beside you and those who don't… — Ayaan Basu Copy Share Image
“We are guided by outcomes, not ideology. We have a policy of principled realism, rooted in shared goals, interests, and values. That… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Monsters are a storytelling tool, like domestic realism and close third. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Set your fantasies in the here and now and then, if challenged, claim to be writing Magical Realism. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
If Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I'm in the game of realism so happy endings probably feel a little bit too neat for life. — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
Levels To better position yourself drop the extra baggage that holds you down. — Gee Linder Copy Share Image
I think what I find challenging is just trying to bring a truthfulness and a realism to a character. — Tricia Helfer Copy Share Image
It's time to bury the unreal, failed 'realism' of those who have long thought that dictators brought stability. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
A real man would buy things for his baby,not for a prostitute on his dick. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The facts, even the real ones, must be imagined before they can be stated. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“When words fail, the hammer drops, living can never be its own excuse.” — Michael Hogan Copy Share Image
I still feel that sincerity and realism are avant-garde, or can be, just as I did when I started out. — Edmund White Copy Share Image
For me, fiscal realism is not a betrayal of Labour values; it is the foundation by which we win the trust of… — Douglas Alexander Copy Share Image
True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Idealism without realism is impotent. Realism without idealism is immoral. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it's best to trade an ideal for something more practical that you can guarantee.” — A.J. Darkholme Copy Share Image
