When you’re with a group of semi-psychotic people, you kind of lose track of reality; it’s almost like being in some sort of cult or something. – Tommy Ramone
I started looking at small companies that were running a sort of virtual reality cottage industry: I had imagined that I would just put on a helmet and be somewhere else – that’s your dream of what it’s going to be. – Thomas Dolby
Solving problems is fine, but it has gotten to the point of being a global obsession. We somehow have it in our heads that if we solve all of the problems, we can sit back and enjoy the easy life. But in reality, we become lazy and complacent. And that’s when we get flooded with even bigger problems. – Thomas Frey
I’ve had people accuse me of being too tough of a grader. But my job is to paint reality versus telling people what they want to hear. – Steve Burke
Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive. – William F. Buckley, Jr.
I love zombie films like Danny Boyle’s ’28 Days Later’ – I thought it was so brilliantly done and so grounded in reality. I was definitely thrust into the zombie world watching that film. – Teresa Palmer
I don’t view my memory as accurate or static – and, in autobiographical fiction, my focus is still on creating an effect, not on documenting reality – so ‘autobiographical,’ to me, is closer in meaning to ‘fiction’ than ‘autobiography.’ – Tao Lin
Remember that your imagination is yours and yours alone. You have the inborn capacity to use it in any way that you choose. No one else is responsible for your imagination. Anything placed in your imagination and held there ultimately becomes your reality. – Wayne Dyer
Dreams look real, but they’re in your mind, so you realize that the physical world is also a construction, which shows that the mind can affect reality in more ways than you can imagine. – Stephen LaBerge
I am equally proud of all of my architectural projects. It’s always rewarding to see an ambitious design become reality. – Zaha Hadid
The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind’s eye. – Shana Alexander
If I didn’t mould my reality then I’d still be in the ghetto where people like me are supposed to stay. You have to dream your way out of the nightmare. – will.i.am
The reality is, is that we love competition, at Apple. We think it makes us all better. But we want people to invent their own stuff. – Tim Cook
It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures. – Vincent Van Gogh
Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America. – Theodore White
Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but that’s not reality, it’s just another aesthetic form of fiction. – Steven Soderbergh
Well, when you’re relaxed, your mind takes you to the whole reality. There’s no such thing as time when you’re really relaxed. That’s why meditation works. – Shirley MacLaine
The idea of a soulmate is beautiful and very romantic to talk about it in a movie or a song, but in reality, I find it scary. – Vanessa Paradis
Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style. – Stephen Bayley
At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action. – Walter Pater
It seems natural to surround my fictional world with animals because my reality is full of them. When I’m sitting there conceiving a story, they just pop up. – Sara Gruen
Whenever you’re fighting with weapons, there’s a level of reality because people don’t understand that these are still metal or hard rubber with sharp points – that if the timing’s wrong, you could definitely get hurt. There’s nothing like working with an actor who doesn’t know what they’re doing, because you’re always in fear of losing an eye. – Will Yun Lee
My function is, as objectively and accurately as I can, to present reality to people out there, and doing that as quickly as we do is quite difficult enough, thank you. – Ted Koppel
The reality in Iraq is that we are creating new terrorists and severely damaging the public impression of the United States in the Muslim world. – Sherrod Brown
Our idea of nature is increasingly being determined by scientific developments. And they have become decisive for our image of reality. – Thom Mayne
