Realist Quotes

I'm very much a realist.

— Leanne Caret

I'm a realist.

— Penelope Keith

“Kafka was a realist”

— Georg Lukacs

“A cynic is what an idealist calls a realist.”

— Susan Elia MacNeal

I may be an aspiring actor, but I am also a realist.

— Kubra Sait

The endurance athlete is the ultimate realist.

— Marty Liquori

I have a lot of courage. I'm a realist.

— Elisabeth Rohm

In love' is for the romantic. 'Love' for the realist.

— Nancy Spain

I am a mixture of idealist and realist.

— Roger Moore

men are not realists - only women are.

— Mae West

I am indeed a moral realist.

— Torbjorn Tannsjo

Im nervous but I'm about to kill it cause they about to let the realist team in.

— Drake

There's evil in the world, all right. Being aware of it makes you a realist, not a paranoid.

— Dean Koontz

“I’m a realist,” I said. “Lying and making promises about forever is almost as bad as one day at a time.”

— Nicole Williams

“I’m a realist. Just because you had sex once doesn’t mean you have to fall in love.”

— Candace Bushnell

I am not a surrealist. I am only a realist. All this group - surrealists - use my name. No, no, I…

— Andre Kertesz

If I am an agnostic, Calyxa, it's because I'm also a realist.

— Robert Charles Wilson

Before I got glasses, I thought Monet was the world's only realist landscape painter.

— Jo Walton

Art Education is as important for a realist artist as an Alphabet is to learn a language.

— Igor Babailov

This may sound trite, but bad things happen to good people, and when you're facing terrorism, natural disaster, you can have every…

— Warren Rudman

Why are we born? We're born eventually to die, of course. But what happens between the time we're born and we die?…

— Studs Terkel

I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist... or maybe even a…

— Clay Aiken

But hope has an astonishing resilience and strength. Its very persistence in our hearts indicates that it is not a tonic for…

— Kathleen Norris

I'm a realist, not a sugar coater. I believe in always letting people know what their obstacles are. And at the end…

— Tichina Arnold

Truth is merely common sense, say the naive realist. Really? Then where, precisely, is the location of--a rainbow? In the air? In…

— Edward Abbey

When I was younger, I was somewhat of an idealist. I guess I'm a little bit more of a realist now. I…

— Conor Oberst

I don't think of myself as a metafictional writer at all. I think of myself as a classic writer, a realist writer,…

— Paul Auster

The kind of theater that I do is sort of 'narrative realism,' which I think in the broadest sense is legitimate to…

— Tony Kushner

I love musicals but it's very, very different. It's really just a different form than serious drama, and has very different rules…

— Tony Kushner

As to the "traditional filler of twenty-first century realist fiction," maybe that is something I avoid. I don't relate to standard psychologizing…

— Rachel Kushner

An optimist is neither naive, nor blind to the facts, nor in denial of grim reality. An optimist believes in the optimal…

— Vera Nazarian

The difficulty in our education up till now lies, for the most part, in the fact that knowledge did not refine itself…

— Max Stirner

I think I'm a realist. Which people who don't like me consider to be pessimism. It isn't pessimism at all. If I…

— Steven Morrissey

“The man of science, whether he knows it or not (most often, obviously, he does know it), whether he wishes it or…

— Lev Shestov

When I was starting out, science fiction was a little genre over there, which only a few people read. But now --…

— Doris Lessing

One cannot afford to be a realist.

— Albert Bandura

It always felt like I had to be a realist.

— Jack Tatum

What reality was ever made by realists?

— Richard Flanagan

“I'm not a cynic. I am a realist.”

— Sonya Watson

“Sometimes the Dreams you have Are Not Meant for You !”

— Marty V