#reality

Men are like parking spots. All the good ones are taken, and those that aren’t are inaccessible.” PHOEBE TRAEGER ↗

I call it guerilla TV. ↗

— Marsha Bemko Producer of Antiques Roadshow

#collecting #killer-stuff-and-tons-of-money #reality-television #money

Whereas life separates meaning from emotion, art unites them. Story is an instrument by which you create such epiphanies at will, the phenomenon known as aesthetic emotion...Life on its own, without art to shape it, leaves you in confusion and chaos, but aesthetic emotion harmonizes what you know with what you feel to give you a heightened awareness and a sureness of your place in reality. ↗

— Robert McKee

#art #awareness #chaos #confusion #emotion

I am a conservationist by nature (higher fauna only), but when queasiness descends, the real becomes embellished, if not entirely elusive. ↗

— Benson Bruno

#reality #nature

You ever notice if you call someones cell phone they won't answer but if you text them seconds later they will. "The Power of your Thumbs compels You! ↗

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

#communication-quotes #life-reality #communication

Naturally, for a person who finds his identity in something other than his full organism is less than half a man. He is cut off from complete participation in nature. Instead of being a body, he 'has' a body. Instead of living and loving he 'has' instincts for survival and copulation. ↗

— Alan Wilson Watts

#identity #nature #reality #love

Belief is otiose; reality is sufficiently awesome as it stands. ↗

— Martin Amis

#awe #humanism #reality #religion #religion

Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it. ↗

— Niels Bohr

#physics #quantum #reality #science #strange

Yesterday's fairy tale is today's fact. The magician is only one step ahead of his audience. ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#fairy-tales #magic #reality #science #science

For scientists, reality is not optional. ↗