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 I know there are some people who believe that it's an outdated art form, and… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image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
Women decide the larger questions of life correctly and quickly, not because they are lucky guessers, not because they are divinely inspired,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Maybe it's not logical. I don't know. I don't care. I've been asked didnt I think it odd that I should be… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
How can you say one style is better than another? You ought to be able to be an Abstract Expressionist next week,… — Andy Warhol 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
A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and… — Cameron Sinclair Copy Share Image
We sometimes forget that human invention can also be a subject of human invention: that might seem a modern notion, or a… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
Faith has its price. When misfortune strikes the true believer, he assumes he has done something to deserve punishment, but isn't quite… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
The ability to "fantasize" is the ability to survive. It's wonderful to speak about this subject because there have been so many… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
To me, what I define as defiance, in some ways, is knowing the "reality" and having the ability to possess a realist… — Alex Ebert Copy Share Image
I believe that my observations have always led me to find that the so-called realist moves about the world with a closed… — Joseph Roth Copy Share Image
“I am whatever I need to be to survive. Roles are as interchangeable as clothes and there are enough fools out there… — Belart Wright Copy Share Image
“To the average mathematician who merely wants to know his work is securely based, the most appealing choice is to avoid difficulties… — Paul Joseph Cohen Copy Share Image
That became my aesthetic - a very Chekhovian, American realist aesthetic in the tradition of Raymond Carver, Richard Ford, and Tobias Wolff.… — Jess Row Copy Share Image
The Society of North American Magic Realists welcomes its newest, most dazzling member, Louis Maistros. His debut novel is a thing of… — Donald Harington Copy Share Image
Look at what realists have done for us. They have led us to war and climate change, poverty on an unimaginable scale,… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
It isn't a circle--it is simply a long line--as in geometry, you know, one that reaches into infinity. And because we cannot… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share Image
My paintings are about light, about the way things look in their environment and especially about how things look painted. Form, colour… — Ralph Goings Copy Share Image
There is the specter of "realism" that is still haunting Chinese contemporary art - that art is only an instrument, an instrument… — Wang Jianwei Copy Share Image
Each of us must work to become a hardheaded realist, or else we risk wasting our time and energy on pursuing impossible… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself a cynic. I think of myself as a skeptic and a realist. But I understand the word "cynic"… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
In the early 1990s we witnessed the emergence of a revitalized contemporary Chinese art world that began as a reaction against the… — Arne Glimcher Copy Share Image
I'm a realist. I like to put it in business terms. I ran three different corporations my way and I was successful.… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
One of the most amazing things ever said on this earth is Jesus's statement: "He that is greatest among you shall be… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
The market is a pendulum that forever swings between unsustainable optimism (which makes stocks too expensive) and unjustified pessimism (which makes them… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The optimist sees a light at the end of the tunnel, the realist sees a train entering the tunnel, the pessimist sees… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
I have been called romantic. Well, that can't be helped. But stay. I seem to remember that I have been called a… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Poetry, which is our relation to the senses, enables us to retain a living relationship to all things. It is the quickest… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Proverbs, like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions. That which the droning world, chained to appearances,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton is pretty much what we would call a foreign-policy realist, someone who thinks the purpose of American foreign policy should… — Richard N. Haass Copy Share Image
“And when I fall in love,” I began, "I will build a mountain to touch the sky. Then, my lover and I… — V.C. Andrews Copy Share Image
The average personality reshapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete overhaul - desirable or not, it is a… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“This is not to say that power and security are the sole or even the most important objectives of mankind; as a… — Robert Gilpin Copy Share Image
