I'm a realist about who really reads books and who acts like they read books. — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
“It is better to recognise that we are in darkness than to pretend that we can see the light” — Hedley Bull Copy Share Image
Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from the faith. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am a great realist in all aspects of life. Whatever I can do ... here it is. — Olga Korbut Copy Share Image
Even in so-called realist or conventional writing there can be defamiliarization. — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him. — Arthur Symons Copy Share Image
A fierce brief fusion which dreamers call real, and realists, an illusion; an insight like the flight of birds. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Experience has proved that there is no difference between a so-called realist painting - of a landscape, for example - and an… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I think hard times are coming. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
You can cooperate and not compromise your core values. But I'm a realist with the philosophy that sometimes you've got to take… — Jason T. Smith Copy Share Image
A novel, even a social realist one, can't simply be a comprehensive rendering of what is. A novel requires a special angle… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
“Every man in the world is either a Realist or a Nominalist. Give yourself a test: if someone called you a gigger… — Alexei Panshin Copy Share Image
I believe that history is not made by cynics; it is made by realists who are not afraid to dream. Let us… — Tzipi Livni Copy Share Image
I want no part of peace with savages who throw acid on and gun down young girls going to school. I would… — Allen West Copy Share Image
For the first time in American history, men in authority are talking about an 'emergency' without a foreseeable end... such men as… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
“A realist writer might break his protagonist's leg, or kill his fiancee; but a science fiction writer will immolate whole planets, and… — Adam Roberts Copy Share Image
“I'm a realist, okay? I have been for a long time. I need to be, and you liking me-wanting to take me… — J. Lynn Copy Share Image
I have for a long time loved fabulist, imaginative fiction, such as the writing of Italo Calvino, Jose Saramago, Michael Bulgakov, and… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“Truth changes with the season of our emotions. It is the shadow that moves with the phases of our inner sun. When… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Idealists are people who believe in the potential of human nature for transformation. . . . The most essential attribute of human… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
The sentences I write have their roots in song and poetry, and take their bearings from music and painting, as much as… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
When I use the term "complex realism", what I'm suggesting is that the writer must be realist, always realist, but not realist… — Agustin Fernandez Mallo Copy Share Image
“I'm a realist, but sometimes I find myself floating in fantasy.” — Brittany Perloff Copy Share Image
I am neither an optimist nor a pessimist. Jesus Christ is risen from the dead. — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
When we refuse to accept our limitations, Nature, who is a stern realist, pays us out. — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
In the realist, faith is not born from miracles, but miracles from faith. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I don't think I've ever been just like, happy with life. I live life as a realist. — Too Short Copy Share Image
I've never understood the division between so-called realists and so-called idealists. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
With a lot of these social realist films, the first thing you do is drain the color. — Sean Baker Copy Share Image
“You are impossible. You are only a realist, and therefore nothing happens to you.” — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
Jesus is not an impractical idealist; he is the practical realist. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I'm always a realist, and I know the world of football is fast-moving. — Arjen Robben Copy Share Image
A strong man must be militant as well as moderate. He must be a realist as well as an idealist. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
An executive should be a realist; and no one is less realistic than the cynic. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
I learned you have to move fast, writing futuristic satire in America: Before you know it, you're a realist! — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
