I think of myself as writing realist American fiction…

“He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays--cynical but hopeful.”

— Rose Macaulay

A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often surprised when…

— Beau Willimon

Cynical is a fool's word for realist.

— Paul Christopher

I don't consider myself a cynic. I think of myself as a skeptic and a realist. But I understand the word "cynic" has more…

— George Carlin

I'm a realist all the way. I'm too cynical to be an optimist. But I've lived too much of a charmed life so far…

— Anthony Jeselnik

In the early 1990s we witnessed the emergence of a revitalized contemporary Chinese art world that began as a reaction against the government-approved Social…

— Arne Glimcher

I'm a realist, I understand football and situations in the game.

— Robert Snodgrass

I'm a realist and a dreamer. There are certain things you can give certain people and certain things you can't.

— Amy Winehouse

A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and dreams, then…

— Cameron Sinclair

Only the free and personal man is a good citizen (realist), and even with the lack of particular (scholarly, artistic, etc)culture, a tasteful judge…

— Max Stirner

An executive should be a realist; and no one is less realistic than the cynic.

— Peter Drucker

The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.

— Benjamin Graham

Being a moral realist I see normative ethics as a search of the truth about our obligations and a search of explanation; the idea…

— Torbjorn Tannsjo

It always felt like I had to be a realist.

— Jack Tatum

Golf is not, on the whole, a game for realists. By its exactitudes of measurements it invites the attention of perfectionists.

— Heywood Hale Broun