It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.

The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.

I don't think movies or television have any basis in reality at all. It's all just pretend. That's what's fun about it.

Too much of what is called "education" is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

To deal with the stark reality of having hit or hurt a woman or child, to deal with the initial responsibility you have not to do that and the knowledge you did do it, can be incredibly hard.

Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception.

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.

Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme.

Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but that's not reality, it's just another aesthetic form of fiction.

We must start with the reality that corporations cannot guarantee anyone a lifetime job any more than corporations have a guarantee of immortality.

The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality.

It's often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that's a lie, too, in its way. The reality is that, for most wars to begin, the truth has to have been sacrificed a long time in advance.

To be totally honest, if I could be thinner without it causing a lot of pain and anxiety in my life, I would be. But today the reality is my life is more important to me than my weight - and thank God for that.

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

Reality shows that, contrary to other countries in southern Africa, we have no basis for a classical guerilla struggle. We have never had a hinterland, and we do not expect to.