“I also felt that Ron and Hermione would have gotten divorced. I'm sorry, I just do. The end of Harry Potter did… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
“Optimism was for children. Once you reached adulthood then you had to join the rest of the world as a realist -… — N.C. Thomas Copy Share Image
Utterly bleak and black is not the sum of realism. All the other colors are real, too. — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
“The fantastic is in complicity with the realist model, in the claims that realism makes to represent the true face of reality.… — Michael Richardson Copy Share Image
Even though I'm a realist, I try to let the medium show and allow it a certain degree of freedom. — William C. Wright Copy Share Image
I firmly believe that a representational painting is only as strong as its abstract components. — Robert Reynolds 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
Some of us might be categorized as the one they settled for. But what we know is that we are the ones… — NyPm0 J Copy Share Image
"Hard" science fiction probes alternative possible futures by means of reasoned extrapolations in much the same way that good historical fiction reconstructs… — Jack Williamson Copy Share Image
Realism' has been abandoned in the search for reality: the 'principal objective' of abstract art is precisely this reality. — Ben Nicholson Copy Share Image
I believe there is no more creative medium than photography to recreate the living world of our time. Photography gladly accepts the… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
When I write, what I long for is not more realism or fiction but more courage. That's what I always find myself… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
If with open mind one reads and observes industriously and long; if in so doing one covers a wide field and so… — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
If you want to be treated like a princess, first you gotta start acting like one. You gotta earn that right. If… — Isaiah Harden (Me Copy Share Image
“A substantial amount of research over the past decade has reinforced the idea that although internal happiness can deviate from its "resting… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
No, I'm not that optimistic, I'm just less pessimistic than most of my peers. — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
I acknowledge Mike Leigh and Ken Loach. They are prostlytizers of English socialism preaching to the converted and telling us what we… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
We have come tardily to the tremendous task of cleaning up our environment. We should have moved with similar zeal at least… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
“Realism arises from the maturity of the minds, while Idealism arises from their conformity.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
In its most fundamental sense, execution is a systematic way of exposing reality and acting on it. Most companies don't face reality… — Lawrence Bossidy Copy Share Image
This poor wretch called man, he thinks he is a problem asking to be solved. He doesn't realize that he was meant… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even when I was on Curb Your Enthusiasm I wasn't this "over-the-top" crazy character. It was still kind of play it straight… — Mekhi Phifer Copy Share Image
Realism as a foreign policy doctrine means basically you don't care about values; you consider them a luxury, and it leads to… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
“O Lucky! How can you desire to be uncivil while all around are Google Cameras. Says Bhutta(After 20 dozen moons)” — Lecturer M K Bhutta Short Story Writer Copy Share Image