Quotes of: Reality-tv Keyword

This was when he first suspected that the kindly child-loving God extolled by his headmistress might not exist. As it turned out, most major world events suggested the same. But for Theo’s sincerely godless generation, the question hasn’t come up...

Ian Mcewan

Beverly Oliver: Oh, yeah. One time I came in, Jack introduces me to these two guys. He said, "Beverly, this is my friend Lee..." and I didn't catch the other guy's name. He was a weird-looking guy with those funny little eyebrows. The other guy, Lee,...

JFK

Vincent: Look in the mirror. Paper towels, clean cab. Limo company some day. How much you got saved? Max: That ain't any of your business. Vincent: Someday? Someday my dream will come? One night you will wake up and discover it never happened. It's a...

Collateral

Hans: [Hans uses McClane's gun and says something in an uninterpreted German on his CB Radio] Put down the gun, and give me my detonators. John McClane: Well, well, well... Hans. Hans: Put it down now. John McClane: That's pretty tricky with that acc...

Die Hard

Tyler Durden: Man, I see in fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us cha...

Fight Club

James Reston, Jr.: You know the first and greatest sin of the deception of television is that it simplifies; it diminishes great, complex ideas, stretches of time; whole careers become reduced to a single snapshot. At first I couldn't understand why ...

Frost/Nixon

Tanya: We're closed. Quinlan: You've been cookin' at this hour? Tanya: Just cleanin' up. Quinlan: Have you forgotten your old friend, hmm? Tanya: I told you we were closed. Quinlan: I'm Hank Quinlan. Tanya: I didn't recognize you. You should lay off ...

Touch of Evil

[last lines] Dr. Floyd: [prerecorded message speaking through TV on board Discovery while Bowman looks on] Good day, gentlemen. This is a prerecorded briefing made prior to your departure and which for security reasons of the highest importance has b...

2001: A Space Odyssey

If things look right on the surface the underside is rarely questioned. However, things may be great in reality, but if one perceives them to be amiss, it is difficult to change that perception.

Consequences

The waves of probabilities collapse into a physical reality through observation by a conscious mind.

Change: Realizing Your Greatest Potential

The common factor in all our experiences is wakeful consciousness which turns what happens into an experience or a meaningful reality.

Change: Realizing Your Greatest Potential

Alone everything changes. Some might call it distorted reality but it's exactly the place I need to be.

Crank

You know, we queens loathed rain at the beach, small cocks, and reality, I think. In that order.

Dancer from the Dance

First, a bath. I'm feeling soiled. Too much contact with cold reality, I think.

Death at Victoria Dock

Awake it was difficult to find anything in that chaotic clutter, but asleep she could...when the contours of reality were as faint as a tracery of pale ink.

Daughter of Fortune

Comics are drawings, not photographs, and as such they present a subjective view of reality.

Dreamland Japan: Writings on Modern Manga

There is no one to tell this to and yet it seems very important to get this right. The reality and what it is like to escape it. That even now it is sometimes too beautiful to bear.

The Dog Stars

It is my opinion that the isolated mind loses its purchase on reality all too easily and becomes prone to fantasy.

A Death in Vienna

Living is painful. Without pain, reality would escape us and the lessons the world has for us will go untaught.

Embody (Insight, #2)

Maturity is the ability to relate appropriately to other realities than one’s own.

Education for Life: Preparing Children to Meet Today's Challenges

He is a dull observer whose experience has not taught him the reality and force of magic, as well as of chemistry.

The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson