I like my films to have a certain amount of realism - something that's thought provoking and intelligently written. More than the… — Arjun Rampal Copy Share Image
I have nothing but the embittered sun; Banished heroic mother moon and vanished, And now that I have come to fifty years… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, it's about the reader's attachment to and belief in the magical elements that make or break… — Tea Obreht Copy Share Image
“Life itself has lost its plane reality: it is projected, not along the old fixed points, but along the dynamic coordinates of… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“Anton Chekhov tells the truth neither out of love or respect for the truth, nor yet because, in the Kantian manner, a… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
“Your strength will be found when you stop struggling with yourself, instead of thinking everyone is a struggle worth overcoming. Every obstacle… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Neither realism nor romance furnishes a more striking and picturesque figure than that of Christopher Columbus. The mystery about his origin heightens… — Chauncey Depew Copy Share Image
Agential realism is not a manifesto, it does not take for granted that all is or will or can be made manifest.… — Karen Barad Copy Share Image
When "reality" is sought for at large, it is without intellectual import; at most the term carries the connotation of an agreeableemotional… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Magical realism as a declaration in the text is usually when someone can't speak and then they must be magically reinvigorated in… — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
“No ghosts need apply. - Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire ” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
People promote being a 90s kid when in reality we're labeled as The Lazy Youth, Lost Generation & we're looked down upon… — Emanuel Sebastiao Copy Share Image
You don't realize what you had until it's gone , but there is a reason for every goodbye. God just chose a… — Maria Micah Rosales Copy Share Image
I believed in realism, as summarized by John McCarthy's comment to the effect that if we worked really hard, we'd have an… — Marvin Minsky 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
I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different… — Barbara Hepworth Copy Share Image
“People who are too optimistic seem annoying. This is an unfortunate misinterpretation of what an optimist really is. An optimist is neither… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
“Science Fiction properly conceived, like all serious fiction, however funny, is a way of trying to describe what is going on, what… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I actually admire some of the books by a lot of the writers who write magic realism very much, but it's not… — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
Fiction doesn't appeal to me because it can describe physical appearances exhaustively or because it can offer access to the inner depths… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
Dynamic ecstasy is absolute romanticism , absolute heroism . And here I return to my point. From my point of view, after… — Juan Ramon Jimenez Copy Share Image
I was pretty realistic to people about what we could get done, and the situation we were in, and trying to tamp… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
