Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.
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Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.
UMBERTO ECO Love hurts the most when you really love. Sometimes you think you're in love, and then you find ...
BABYFACE i believe in love. lust. sex. romance. i don't want everything to add up to the perfect equation...i...
NOT REAL We all dream a lot - some are lucky, some are not. But if you think it, want it, dream it, then it...
TIM RICE If you're having a very high-adrenaline, high-movement experience in virtual reality, and then a...
PALMER LUCKEY If you're not bruised up, then you're not doing an action film in a real way.
MADS MIKKELSEN Real love is more than a physical feeling. If there's even the slightest doubt in your head abou...
ETHAN EMBRY The Romney candidacy is better than it was four years ago, but it's not clear that it's good...
MARK STEYN 'Heel Turn 2' is about a person who's in a match, and he's playing as though the mat...
JOHN DARNIELLE Hate is self-destructive. If you hate somebody, you're not hurting the person you hate. You'...
LOUIS ZAMPERINI If you're not trying to be real, you don't have to get it right. That's art.
ANDY WARHOL If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are descr...
JAMES BALDWIN It's weird how people were always asking us, 'Are you real? Are you joking?' That seems ...
YOLANDI VISSER I'm always looking for something that's real and that's got meat on it. I think it's...
BILL SKARSGARD I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know ...
JACKIE COLLINS The Mormon issue is a real problem in the South; it's a real problem in other parts of the count...
DAN BARTLETT It's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody.
MATT DAMON If beef is your idea of 'real food for real people', you'd better live real close to a r...
NEAL BARNARD If you look only as Genesis as an allegory, you have a major problem, because if it's an allegor...
KEN HAM When you translate a dream into reality, it's never a full implementation. It is easier to dream...
SHAI AGASSI It's fun to pretend you're good at something you know you wouldn't be good at in real li...
BEN WHISHAW When you're in school, every little mistake is a permanent crack in your windshield. But in the ...
DREW HOUSTON You can tell if there's magic in something. When you start it, you want to finish it and you wan...
HALSEY There's something so great when you're watching a movie when you slowly get to know somebody...
DEREK CIANFRANCE If you are not happy when you're weightless, then something's wrong.
BRIAN BINNIE There's nothing better than that feeling of new chemistry when you're so into someone, and y...
CHRISTINA MILIAN If you compare the violence in 'Happy Valley' to the violence in something like 'Game of...
JAMES NORTON American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100
degrees centigrade in pla...
UMBERTO ECO If you put a real leaf and a silk leaf side by side, you'll see something of the difference betw...
ALICE OSWALD The real rub is finding that authentic self and it's not something that's going to come to y...
PAUL GUILFOYLE I think you're a better comedian when you're in the moment and you're kind of reacting t...
SCOTT AUKERMAN And the podcasting - I swear to you - on its worst day, the podcasts are better than our best films....
KEVIN SMITH The reality is that it's harder to recruit pediatric subspecialists if you're not recruiting...
IRWIN REDLENER Music is real; it's something you can touch and feel.
BIJOU PHILLIPS This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature&...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY There's a real feeling when you know you're getting it right. It's a physical feeling.
ROBERT CARO No one's better than me. I'm not better than anyone. Whether it's Eric Clapton or BB Kin...
CARLOS SANTANA I tend to believe, when you're in a relationship, if you don't fight, it's not a real re...
RICHARD LAGRAVENESE The thing with drama is you're allowed to invent people who are maybe slightly better than real ...
BIRGITTE HJORT SORENSEN If you wanna be famous, then it's okay if the music is fake, because fame isn't real.
JOSH HOMME If you're an artist, you want to draw from real life; you want to draw from experiences, emotion...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE You have to really prove yourself to young people, and if your answer is clear and consistent and lo...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH Growing up, I learned that if you are passionate about something, that you can move mountains. Passi...
STEPHANIE ALLAIN If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that d...
MORGAN FREEMAN In real life, the most important decision you ever make is, where does reality leave off and make-be...
TELLER If you listen to PWR BTTM, or to Gloss, If you look at me on stage, it can make you feel less alone....
BEN HOPKINS You just have to make sure you're writing about something that's true. It has to be honest a...
TEDDY THOMPSON I think documentary filmmaking is a braver way to make films because it's real, and you're r...
JAMIE BELL I did a lot of research on real serial killers, and they're not Hannibal Lecters. They're cr...
LAUREN BEUKES I'm a real bath addict. I could sit in a bath and soak for days on end, and you'll never see...
POPPY DELEVINGNE TV's 'real' agenda is to be 'liked,' because if you like what you're seeing,...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE Reality is always different then dream. Reality is hard and nude fact . You need to accept it as it ...
DR. SHAILESH THAKER It's not about how much movement you do, how much interaction there is, it just reeks of credibi...
FRED DURST I've never really broken this down before, but, in movies, you almost have no connection to fans...
ADAM CAROLLA So many reality shows are scripted and create this fake drama, and it's a bunch of bull. We want...
BILL RANCIC Scenes change all the time. Scenes will change while you're shooting them, and you just have to ...
YARA SHAHIDI I consider a dream like I consider a shadow,” answered Caeiro, with his usual divine, unexpected p...
ÁLVARO DE CAMPOS Reality is always different than dream. Reality is hard and nude fact . You need to accept it as it ...
DR. SHAILESH THAKER The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That'...
VINCE LOMBARDI Washington politicians think that government can make better decisions than you and me. But we know ...
BRAD WENSTRUP If you're the village blacksmith and a model T comes along, you better become a mechanic. People...
MARC ANDREESSEN The real architecture happens within the works themselves, and that was done by the composer. That...
JOSHUA BELL The blogosphere is real, and it can be really harsh on fakes... so, if you're a phoney, you'...
JASON CALACANIS If it's Saturday night, and you're sitting on your couch watching 'Showtime at the Apoll...
FRANK VINCENT With sculpting, nothing is cloudy or mystical. It's just about this object, and if you're tr...
CHANNING TATUM There's always a reaction based on fear. People assume if you're criticizing a decision to g...
ED HARRIS It's better to get a rosebud while you're alive than a whole bouquet after you're dead.
HOME RUN BAKER I think it's a problem when something's a dream because it'll never live up to your expe...
KARL PILKINGTON Film is a dramatised reality and it is the director's job to make it appear real... an audience ...
DAVID LEAN What matters is 'Have you done a better job of making our experiences feel like home on Windows?...
SATYA NADELLA Every third person in the world is a drama queen. And crying 'victim,' especially when you...
JOHN MCWHORTER It's a real roller-coaster ride if you're lucky to have longevity in this business - you hav...
JENNIFER LOPEZ James Blake is a real good friend of mine. He's real different than what you thinks. He's su...
TRAVIS SCOTT I think everyone expects if you're in the lead, or if you're a favourite to win, you will wi...
JASON DAY Even if you're unhappy, just pretend that you're happy. Eventually, your smile will be conta...
EVANGELINE LILLY Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real troubl...
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY There are so few roles out there. And even if it is a film that could be led by a black actress, how...
OCTAVIA SPENCER Surveys of thousands of gamers have shown that they're more likely to play real music if they pl...
JANE MCGONIGAL There's two kinds of rock n' roll casualty: the one that has huge success and adoration, and...
RHYS IFANS If explicit metadata is a real problem, it raises problems that just can't be solved. It's n...
DAVID WEINBERGER We all dream a lot - some are lucky, some are not. But if you think it, want it, dream it, then it'...
TIM RICE We all dream a lot - some are lucky, some are not. But if you think it, want it, dream it, then it's...
TIM RICE I have very vivid dreams, and often - this happens to me at least a few times a week - I don't k...
EUGENIE BOUCHARD The way I talk to the puppets is real, and it's in the moment, and it's seeing what will hap...
NINA CONTI This is real human drama, we're not creating some amusement park ride for the summer. Even thoug...
JOHN C. REILLY If you're driving, and a cop is behind you, you automatically think they're going to pull yo...
MANNY MONTANA There's this thing about authenticity when you rap, right? Whether or not it's real, it has ...
DAVEED DIGGS When you're trying to expand your business, it's about real estate in the stores.
JANET EVANOVICH Dishonesty is all about the small acts we can take and then think, 'No, this not real cheating.&...
DAN ARIELY It's challenging to take on something else that is not you and make it very real and have others...
DASH MIHOK You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all her...
NANCY REAGAN I think any spiritual experience that's worthwhile is not about ego and it will humble you in so...
DAVID O. RUSSELL If you shoot with a billion cameras, then there's no perspective. You want to use one shot at a ...
ROGER DEAKINS You have a core competency, something you're better at than I'll ever be, and that's you...
WALTER O'BRIEN But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money...
ALFRED MARSHALL You know,” he continued reflectively, “there is something very satisfying about making something...
LESLIE W.P. GARLAND You can always tell a person's real character and personhood by those who closely surround him, ...
CHUCK NORRIS If words don't have vibration behind them, and a real feeling behind them, then they're just...
CHARLOTTE RAMPLING Architecture is the beginning of something because it's - if you're not involved in first pr...
THOM MAYNE The thing with 'The West Wing' is that the fantasy was legitimately better than the reality ...
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UMBERTO ECO The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer,
the wheel. Once invented it cannot be improve...
UMBERTO ECO The outcast lepers would like to drag everything down in their ruin. And they become all the more ev...
UMBERTO ECO The people of God cannot be changed until the outcasts are restored to its body.
UMBERTO ECO Scratch the heresy and you will find the leper. Every battle against heresy wants only this: to keep...
UMBERTO ECO For centuries, as pope and emperor tore each other apart in their quarrels over power, the excluded ...
UMBERTO ECO The faith a movement proclaims doesn't count: what counts is the hope it offers. All heresies are th...
UMBERTO ECO I'd lost all faith in everything, except for the certainty that there's always someone behind our ba...
UMBERTO ECO And what would we be, we sinful creatures, without fear, perhaps the most foresighted, the most lovi...
UMBERTO ECO All the stories I would like to write persecute me. When I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are...
UMBERTO ECO But why do some people support [the heretics]?"
"Because it serves their purposes, which conce...
UMBERTO ECO In the Middle Ages, cathedrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a...
UMBERTO ECO There, Master Niketas,’ Baudolino said, ‘when I was not prey to the temptations of this world, I...
UMBERTO ECO But it has often happened that I have found the most seductive depictions of sin in the pages of tho...
UMBERTO ECO لا أعرف شيئا ليس هناك شيئ أعلمه .و إنما بعض الأشياء يحسه...
UMBERTO ECO ...a book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy...
UMBERTO ECO We stopped to browse in the cases, and now that William - with his new glasses on his nose - could l...
UMBERTO ECO This, in fact, is the power of the imagination, which, combining the memory of gold with that of the...
UMBERTO ECO How beautiful was the spectacle of nature not yet touched by
the often perverse wisdom of man!
UMBERTO ECO Yesterday's rose endures in its name, we hold empty names.
UMBERTO ECO A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a nove...
UMBERTO ECO كان رجال العهود الغابرة وسيمي الطلعة طويلي القامة و �...
UMBERTO ECO True learning must not be content with ideas, which are, in fact, signs, but must discover things in...
UMBERTO ECO Monsters exist because they are part of the divine plan, and in the horrible features of those same ...
UMBERTO ECO We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay.
UMBERTO ECO Love is wiser than wisdom.
UMBERTO ECO Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now...
UMBERTO ECO Not that the incredulous person doesn't believe in anything. It's just that he doesn't believe in ev...
UMBERTO ECO the first quality of an honest man is contempt for religion, which would have us afraid of the most ...
UMBERTO ECO American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100
degrees centigrade in pla...
UMBERTO ECO The fact that for tens of thousands of years humanity has used warfare as a solution for states of d...
UMBERTO ECO Priešas turi būti atpažįstamas ir baisus, jis turi būti tavo namuose arba prie durų slenksčio...
UMBERTO ECO