#realist

Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works. ↗

— Jim Harrison

#concepts #how #most #publishing #totally

My mother is a realist, and she's had biological and adoptive children, and she said it's no different: No matter what, they're putting a stranger into your arms. You don't know them yet. ↗

— Katherine Heigl

#biological #children #different #had #into

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#language #leader #must #practical #realist

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#chicago #goes #person #protection #realistic

Dennis the Menace was probably the most realistic comic book ever done. No space aliens ever invaded! ↗

— Gilbert Hernandez

#comic #comic book #dennis #done #ever

I have a theory that as human beings get older, chemicals are released into the brain to prepare us for the end. Sort of like how the nurse lubes your ass up before the anus-cam. It makes the whole thing a lot easier to swallow. Easier, not enjoyable. ↗

— Kris D'Agostino

#death-and-dying #humor #life #life-and-living #realist

'Realistic' is a loaded word for me. Anyone who uses the word 'realistic' is all bad. ↗

— David R. Brower

#bad #loaded #me #realistic #uses

A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him. ↗

— Arthur Symons

#before #faithfulness #him #mere #realist

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that's one of the hardest things to do because you don't always know exactly where you're going, and you shouldn't. ↗

— George Lucas

#achievement #always #because #exactly #goals

You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people, then that's obscenity. ↗

— Roman Polanski

#immoral #obscenity #people #realistically #show