Realistic Quotes · Page 12

Warmakers are often wrong. ... Peace advocates are sometimes right, especially when their ideas are not only morally sound but politically realistic

— David Cortright

Just had lunch with the president who seems pensive, slightly deflated, realistic, aggravated and resolute. Didn't eat his pie.

— Katie Couric

If someone tells you he is going to make a realistic decision, you immediately understand that he is going to do something…

— Mary McCarthy

“What people say realistic, may not necessarily the same as what we think. At the end we will know which one Is…

— dee

I rarely got retouched when I started modeling, and it was crucial to me to show an accurate, realistic picture of me…

— Barbie Ferreira

We remain open to explore options on a voluntary approach built on a realistic outlook for the Greek economy and restoration of…

— Charles Dallara

Without organization and leadership toward a realistic goal, there is no chance of realizing more than a small percentage of your potential.

— John Wooden

Today, you're halfway to 100! Here's to optimism, whether it is realistic or not. Happy 50th birthday!

— T. S. Eliot

The private detective of fiction is a fantastic creation who acts and speaks like a real man. He can be completely realistic…

— Raymond Chandler

It's all realistic, if you get a group of ladies and you stick them together almost every day for three, four months…

— Shaunie O'Neal

To change criminal justice policy in any meaningful way means to propose changing a very longstanding system. It's not realistic to think…

— Kamala Harris

There is such a cliche to certain roles that all I can do is to try to make them realistic and work…

— Kelli O'Hara

One of the saddest lines in the world is, 'Oh come now - be realistic.' The best parts of this world were…

— Richard Nelson Bolles

I've kind of come to the conclusion that what passes for realism in movies has nothing to do with reality and that…

— Charlie Kaufman

All the plays that have ever been written, from ancient Greece to the present day, have never really been anything but thrillers...…

— Eugene Ionesco

The SF genre, of course, is really an organically evolved, marketplace-determined, idiosyncratic grab bag of themes and signifiers and characters and icons…

— Paul Di Filippo

I don't think neurobiology is going to replace aesthetics or art history. It's a parallel discipline that adds a new dimension. I…

— Eric Kandel

My New Year's Eve is always 2 July, the night before my birthday. That's the night I make my resolutions. And this…

— Tracey Emin

The Captains of Industry have always counseled the rest of us "to be realistic." Let us, therefore, be realistic. Is it realistic…

— Wendell Berry

My only supporter and comrade-in-arms was Georg Helm, who had endeavored to formulate an energetic conception of science before me and had…

— Wilhelm Ostwald

Set goals for yourself and put actionable steps in place to ensure that you achieve them. Whether you aim to get a…

— Kelly Hoppen

The artists catch what's in the air. It's not because the artist "felt like it" or is a guru who channels the…

— Francoise Mouly

When my friends who were college age took a year off of school, they'd play in Weatherbox, or between high school and…

— Brian Warren

Sam Kinison was one of the most compulsive people I'd ever seen. James Belushi was that way, and Chris Farley was that…

— Tim Matheson

We all have dark sides to ourselves, and I want to portray that in a realistic way.

— Tom Weston-Jones

Adrianne Harun's dark, mysterious novel is by turns Gothic and grittily realistic, astute and poetic in its evocation of evil everywhere.

— Andrea Barrett

I think of myself as a realistic writer, not a creator of soap opera or melodrama.

— Joyce Maynard

I'd like to be part of out-of-the-box films like 'Shahid.' I see myself being part of realistic cinema.

— Rithvik Dhanjani

You can shoot a film in New York without seeing the Empire State Building. Or Starbucks...although the latter is much less realistic.

— Kenneth Lonergan

I'm not Britney Spears, and I don't claim to be. Would I like to have her career? Of course! But I just…

— Scheana Shay

Fairy tales are experienced by their hearers and readers, not as realistic, but as symbolic poetry.

— Max Luthi

You have to be realistic. Not everyone is going to like you, so you have to focus on the ones who do.

— Michael McIntyre

Being realistic doesn't require being self-deprecating, being serious all the time, or seeing things in a negative light.

— Anonymous

I wanted so badly to have a backup plan for when I'm not performing anymore. Let's be realistic: it's not going to…

— Gwen Stefani

Realistic non-commercial films offer you a lot more liberty as a director than a usual film.

— Priyadarshan

I think, at some point, I might have said it must be great to be as big as Elvis, but that wasn't…

— Peter Frampton

I always wanted to be part of a realistic film where there is less to act and more to live.

— Tejaswi Madivada

Any realistic vision of change must be based on the notion of empowerment of people.

— Michael Manley

As a driver, you always want to win every race, but as a car owner you know that isn't very realistic.

— Michael Waltrip

My expectations are greater than the average fan's but, I'm more realistic than the top prognosticators.

— Bill Parcells