“She could just pack up and leave, but she does not visualize what's beyond ahead.” — Núria Añó Copy Share Image
Why does someone believe you when you say there are four billion stars, but check when you say the paint is wet? — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
Mix idealism with realism and add hard work. This will often bring much more than you could ever hope for. — John Wooden Copy Share Image
It is only by knowing how little life has in store for us that we are able to look on the bright… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Peerlessness is a very treacherous ambition; so mind where and who you tread on. — Evans Ubom Copy Share Image
Reality has a long history of not altering itself to make us happy or comfortable. — Philip Gulley Copy Share Image
Happily Ever Afters are only for fairy tales there is no Happily Ever Afters in the real world its called being realistic. — Serenity C Copy Share Image
“Life is like a story, when all the resolution is resolved, you heave a sigh of relief.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Realism absorbs the ideal by adding a few small imperfections. Example: it paints a few specks of mud on the white gown… — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban's enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The 19thc rejection of Romanticism… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A lot of television shows, when you see births, the baby is coming out, and the wife is freaking, 'You did this… — Lennon Parham Copy Share Image
Just to prove that even the silliest idea can be pursued to its illogical conclusion, Legal Realism spawned Critical Legal Studies. — Alex Kozinski Copy Share Image
“monism that moved on into a flourishing school called Neo-Realism. If a piece of chalk is dropped on the lecture table, that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated by the magic realism used by many writers. I think it goes hand-in-hand with the Indian experience. It's a very… — Joseph Boyden Copy Share Image
It feels much better to me to think that an artist is working to show his appreciation of what already has been… — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
Don't be led away by those howls about realism. Remember-pine woods are just as real as pigsties and a darn sight pleasanter… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
“Realism is for lazy-minded, semi-educated people whose atrophied imagination allows them to appreciate only the most limited and convention subject matter. Re-Fi… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Magical realism is a blending of the unusual or supernatural into an otherwise ordinary setting. And, to me, this perfectly describes the… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
Obviously all religions get corrupted by man. The initial ideas are interesting but once they get organized they seem to become about… — Matt Dillon Copy Share Image
“The first thing I check once I’m inside a story is the emotional weather. Is there a storm coming? What’s the temperature,… — Bob Thurber Copy Share Image
From his style, you’d think Jason Brannon was the dark double of Ray Bradbury. He cares more about character and realism than… — Michael Arnzen Copy Share Image
What's impossible not to notice, though - it's all around us - is the diminution of American prose: How pedestrian it has… — Cynthia Ozick 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
I had the idea that there were two worlds. There was a real world as I called it, a world of wars… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Mass entertainment in America has been dominated for a long time by the mode of documentary realism. — David Riesman Copy Share Image
Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic. — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Lists are based on realism - on the coldly contemplated finitude of resources. — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“One of the great beauties of politics as an art form was its lack of restriction to merely standard forms of realism.” — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
Never Judge Someone By Whom The Person Is. Remember, Every Saint Has A Past, Every Sinner Has a Future... — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
You can work well with people that you may not get on well with in life because it's a parallel realism. — Jonathan Rhys Meyers Copy Share Image
“When you're in the middle of a killing field and the fucking Chooser of the Slain tells you to do something, you… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
Monsters are a storytelling tool, like domestic realism and close third. — Colson Whitehead 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
I think what I find challenging is just trying to bring a truthfulness and a realism to a character. — Tricia Helfer Copy Share Image
Levels To better position yourself drop the extra baggage that holds you down. — Gee Linder 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
Set your fantasies in the here and now and then, if challenged, claim to be writing Magical Realism. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
