Realist famous quotes
07-13-2025
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I sing to the realists; people who accept it like it is.
-- Aretha Franklin -
A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.
-- Arthur Symons -
An architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist.
-- Cameron Sinclair -
The reason I don't like realist, photorealist, neorealist, or whatever, is that I am as interested in the artificial as I am in the real.
-- Chuck Close -
There's an overlap between social-realist fiction and crime fiction - a sweet spot there.
-- Daniel Woodrell -
You're a cynic," Urgit accused. Silk shook his head. "No, Your Majesty. I'm a realist.
-- David Eddings -
There's evil in the world, all right. Being aware of it makes you a realist, not a paranoid.
-- Dean Koontz -
Romantics value intensity over stability. Realists value security over passion. But both are often disappointed, for few people can live happily at either extreme.
-- Esther Perel -
A mystic is a spiritual realist, a person for whom the Invisible is a matter of more or less firsthand experience.
-- Frances Parkinson Keyes -
The genuine realist, if he is an unbeliever, will always find strength and ability to disbelieve in the miraculous, and if he is confronted with a miracle as an irrefutable fact he would rather disbelieve his own senses than admit the miraculous also.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky -
I don't consider myself a cynic. I think of myself as a skeptic and a realist.
-- George Carlin -
I'm a realist and I always have been.
-- Jackie Joyner-Kersee -
I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really.
-- James Earl Jones -
I always say I am a realist, and my mom says, 'No, you just have anxiety.
-- Jessica Chastain -
People say I'm such a pessimist, but I always was. It never stopped me from doing what I had to do. I would say I'm a realist.
-- Joan Baez -
I am ... a realist. The magnitude of what one terms license or civil liberties or personal freedom has got to be adjusted to the circumstances.
-- Lee Kuan Yew -
A strong man must be militant as well as moderate. He must be a realist as well as an idealist.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. -
The endurance athlete is the ultimate realist.
-- Marty Liquori -
A man who has been shot at is a new realist, and what do you say to a realist when the war is a war of ideals?
-- Michael Shaara -
In love' is for the romantic. 'Love' for the realist.
-- Nancy Spain -
I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist. And my reality is that we live in a multifaceted, multicultural world. And maybe once we stop labeling ourselves, then maybe everyone else will.
-- Octavia Spencer -
An executive should be a realist; and no one is less realistic than the cynic.
-- Peter Drucker -
When we refuse to accept our limitations, Nature, who is a stern realist, pays us out.
-- Phyllis Bottome -
If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist; and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist.
-- Quentin Crisp -
If I am an agnostic, Calyxa, it's because I'm also a realist.
-- Robert Charles Wilson -
I'm not an idealist anymore, I'm a bitter realist.
-- Soe Hok Gie -
We're born eventually to die, of course. But what happens between the time we're born and we die? We're born to live. One is a realist if one hopes.
-- Studs Terkel -
I'm an eternal realist and the success rate for being an actor is pretty low.
-- Tom Hiddleston -
A realist is an idealist who has gone through the fire and been purified. A skeptic is an idealist who has gone through the fire and been burned.
-- Warren W. Wiersbe -
Even though I'm a realist, I try to let the medium show and allow it a certain degree of freedom.
-- William C. Wright -
[ 'American Dream' ] probably will [go] somewhere in Europe. You get 3000 entries [to] Sundance, and how many movies get [screened]? So, I'm a realist. I'm very much realistic in terms of if this movie will be released in the States. Probably not.
-- Janusz Kaminski -
Even in so-called realist or conventional writing there can be defamiliarization.
-- Leni Zumas -
I am surprised by the word psychedelic. João Gilberto Noll does not accept realism in a straightforward way, but I am more inclined to call Quiet Creature a realist text than I am to call it a psychedelic one. The transcendent aspect of the psychedelic experience is totally absent.
-- Adam Morris -
I'm a realist. And realists don't fool themselves.
-- Adam Dunn -
"Cynic" is a word invented by optimists to put down realists.
-- Stefano Benni
