A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often… — Beau Willimon Copy Share Image
The fact is, for all the critics' talk about me as a realist, I'm making everything up - everything. It is all… — Richard Bausch Copy Share Image
“It is better for a realist to bend his will and ethics to accommodate a true friend than it is for him… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
World unity is the wish of the hopeful, the goal of the idealist and the dream of the romantic. Yet it is… — Don Williams Copy Share Image
People say I'm such a pessimist, but I always was. It never stopped me from doing what I had to do. I… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
“The idea that there is a “realist” faction in the debate over the size of the Smurfs ought to chill you to… — Conor Lastowka Copy Share Image
How cold the vacancy When the phantoms are gone and the shaken realist First sees reality. The mortal no Has its emptiness… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Whenever I am in my videos, it's rare. A lot of it is, they feel more live and hyper-realist, rather than fantasy.… — Skrillex Copy Share Image
I'm quite optimistic. I'm also a realist. And I hope, you know, things work out. I don't think that the world will… — Shirley Temple Copy Share Image
“Listen: you are not yourself, you are crowds of others, you are as leaky a vessel as was ever made, you have… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I do think that science fiction ideas are best expressed through visual media like film and TV. Realist literature depicts things that… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
A politician or political thinker who calls himself a political realist is usually boasting that he sees politics, so to speak, in… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is. ... We never find out the strength of the evil… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I was very, very young, seven years old, I heard there was school where you could go to learn to draw.… — David Coverdale Copy Share Image
I am certainly open to the idea that this might be used to explain other philosophical categories besides knowledge. I have some… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
President Hinckley is not only a living prophet but also a living seer. He sees things that others do not see. He… — David E. Sorensen Copy Share Image
I'm a realist - yes, I know: darn, I'm unlikely to have a love scene with Chris Hemsworth anytime soon, if ever.… — Danielle Macdonald Copy Share Image
I sing to the realists, people who accept it like it is. I express problems. There are tears when it's sad and… — Aretha Franklin Copy Share Image
I wish I had more control, more like Edgar Rice Burroughs had, but I'm a realist, too. I work in television. I… — Gene Roddenberry Copy Share Image
Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from faith. If the realist once believes, then he… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
It's funny, for a long time I would go watermelon-red and deny that I was a magical realist. It felt imprecise to… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
Dear optimist, pessimist, and realist--while you guys were busy arguing about the glass of wine, I drank it! Sincerely, the opportunist! — Lori Greiner Copy Share Image
“The simple truth is that nowhere in human history is there another man who combined so uniquely and effectively in his person… — Fazlur Rahman Copy Share Image
My mother is a realist, and she's had biological and adoptive children, and she said it's no different: No matter what, they're… — Katherine Heigl Copy Share Image
The word realist means nothing to me, because I would subordinate reality to temperament. Give me what is true and I applaud;… — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
I think of myself as writing realist American fiction. 'Cynical but hopeful' wouldn't be the worst thing I've ever been called. — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
“The title of Realist was thrust upon me just as the title of Romantic was imposed upon the men of 1830. Titles… — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
If you are a novelist of a certain type of termperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world.… — John Barth Copy Share Image
Next comes the realist phase ("After all, from a purely geometrical point of view a cat is only a tube with a… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The 'realist' conception of continuing old-fashioned 'balance of power' politics may have been well founded in the past, but it is inconsistent… — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
People normally view my work as fantasy, which on some level is true, but I do think that my work is more… — Shahad Ameen Copy Share Image
Let the realist not mind appearances. Let him delegate to others the costly courtesies and decorations of social life. The virtuesare economists,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
The point is that we are among those who cannot get their mouths around all the little Yeses that add up to… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
I don't believe that fiction is dead. I know there are some people who believe that it's an outdated art form, and… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
“Lately, a study has suggested that depressed people have a more accurate view of reality, though this accuracy is not worth a… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
“But since Catt was more realist than fabulist, she understood her actual death at the hands of her killer would be something… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be the champion, and I had belief in myself that I could achieve it. But along the way,… — Michael Bisping Copy Share Image
I think people are very stiff. Money makes people stiff, and we want it, and we have to pay the penalty. I… — John Cassavetes Copy Share Image
