Reality Quotes

"Slipping to 103, ... was a good reality check for me."

"REALITY, n. The dream of a mad philosopher. That which would remain in the cupel if one should assay a phantom. The nucleus of a vacuum."

"We do not have it out there as a distant dream. This could actually be reality."

"You can't, in any way, shape or form, sugarcoat any of it. Reality is, probably 99.9 percent of the country didn't lose anybody there, except they lost a little piece of America, and they need to understand what happened that day."

"What is reality, anyway? Just a collective hunch"

"First the cash market went up, reflecting the reality of a very tight supply-demand situation. Then the futures went up, making the case this was an enduring change in energy prices."

"You take on the responsibility for making your dream a reality."

"Reality TV comes along and it proceeds to marry with every other type of program and have offspring. We've got reality TV married to a talent show ? 'Nashville Star' and 'American Idol.' And now I think the same is happening with home improvement shows."

"Wall Street tends to see the light switch as on or off. The reality is that we're dealing with a dimmer switch and the lights are slowly coming up. The economy has picked up about as quickly as expected, but the market just isn't reacting to it."

"Even if the reality is, there's nothing more that he could have done back in Washington or anywhere else ... the symbol matters."

"President Mubarak assumes a role for himself which both Washington and London have not given to him, ... In reality there is no noble, fair and intelligent person in Egypt, in the Arab homeland or the whole world sharing Mr. Mubarak in his deduction."

"Any mental activity is easy if it need not take reality into account"

"an urgent need . . . to face hard reality."

"The reality of it is, if I'm not in the plans, with one year left on my deal, the only fair thing to do is give me the opportunity to back out and shop at the mall."

"Now you've got the herd mentality rushing to the fore. This whole thing is nothing more than a reality check: it's a warning shot across the bow of the tech sector. The day traders and the tech-heavy investors, I think, are a little scared right now."

"I suspect that 280 figure is a bit low. The reality is it's probably closer to 700 to 1,000 (students) out of the 911 units. But if they get a lot of empty nesters and up-and-coming professionals to buy there, that number could be a lot lower."

"Maybe this is good. It knocked us down a bit. Maybe we're back to reality a bit."

"Reality is nothing but a collective hunch."

"The reality is that the AIDS epidemic continues to outstrip the global and national efforts to contain it,"

"We are professionals. We are going to finish that way. In reality, how we conduct ourselves in this period and how well our players play will be as good an interview as you can do - better than anything you could say."