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
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
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
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
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
The genuine realist, if he is an unbeliever, will always find strength and ability to disbelieve in the miraculous, and if he… — Fyodor Dostoevsky 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
Women can accept the fact that a man is a rotter, a swindler, a drug taker, a confirmed liar, and a general… — Agatha Christie 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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
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 I know there are some people who believe that it's an outdated art form, and… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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 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
“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
You just can't get anything done. You can't get hearings, you can't get legislation, you can't get responses by the regulatory agencies… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
Any number of holier-than-thou honorable realists walk around in the belief that they have accomplished something, simply because they tell you for… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
I am surprised by the word psychedelic. João Gilberto Noll does not accept realism in a straightforward way, but I am more… — Adam Morris Copy Share Image
Dickens is a much misunderstood and mis-approached writer, in that he tends to be read, particularly in the twentieth century, as a… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I'm a realist and I always have been. Quality training is what I do now; before it was a combination of both… — Jackie Joyner-Kersee Copy Share Image
This is what we have all come to Cannes for: for something different, experimental, a tilting at windmills, a great big pole-vault… — Peter Bradshaw Copy Share Image
“You get started on something and you go where it takes you and you set aside other things because you don't have… — Sam Winston Copy Share Image
You cannot prove realism to a complete sceptic or idealist; but you can show an honest man that he is not a… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
It's time that we acknowledge the wisdom women have acquired by managing the chaos of daily life. Women are realists, the glue… — Teresa Heinz 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
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 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
