Realistic Quotes

Let's be realistic. Let's do the impossible!

Cannibalism is a radical but realistic solution to the problem of overpopulation.

One half of me is a hopeless romantic. The other half is well... just realistic.

I wanted so badly to have a backup plan for when I'm not performing anymore. Let's be realistic: it's not going to be like this forever.

Imitation, if it is not forgery, is a fine thing. It stems from a generous impulse, and a realistic sense of what can and cannot be done.

I describe in a realistic form a nonrealistic Reality.

The scenes in the show were filmed with a crew of really excellent stunt jumpers, but we had the feel of the parachutes, so we could be more realistic in the roles.

Realistic, naturalistic art had dissembled the medium, using art to conceal art; Modernism used art to call attention to art.

You are not realistic unless you believe in miracles!

If someone tells you he is going to make a 'realistic decision', you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad.

Those of you who have spent time with Australians know that we are not given to overstatement. By nature we are laconic speakers and by conviction we are realistic thinkers.

Economics never was a dismal science. It should be a realistic science.

When I stopped making films, they were getting on to the more realistic films and the explicit films and all. They were depicting life as it is, and some of it was unpleasant. I gradually moved away from that.

We have to be realistic about what the state can afford, and put an end to abuses of the system that cost millions.

I love tiny, plastic realistic food magnets. I don't know why. They're hilarious.

We should always be practical, realistic and optimistic.

Put a higher value on yourself. Being hyper-realistic about everything is too simple a get-out.

The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.

My work has the abstraction underneath it all now & what I deliberately set out to do down here, for this is the perfect realistic abstraction in landscape.

Either we're going to solve this by realistic negotiation or there will be blood on the border.

I try not to do scenes a certain way, because then I become conscious of it, and it dosen't come off as realistic. I try to make it so that I'm not really aware of what I'm doing.

We only hear success stories. You don't hear about the hundreds and hundreds - the overwhelming majority that don't go anywhere. This is a more realistic portrayal of what happens in startups.

So often feminism is built up as this thing where you have to be perfect. You have to be consistent and you can't ever deviate. That's just not realistic.

The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world - no ideals.

I don't believe [monogamy] is realistic. But, I believe that we, as people, have the power to make it happen.

Being realistic is the most commonly travelled road to mediocracy

People have to be realistic, or the dream just drags on.

Fairy tales are experienced by their hearers and readers, not as realistic, but as symbolic poetry.

True hope is cleareyed. It sees all the difficulties that exist and all the potential for failure, but through that carves a realistic path to a better future.

People talk about mumblecore but I prefer bumblecore, hyper-realistic bee movies about how bees really are.

We can let our past [difficulties and failures] beat us or teach us [to be more knowledgeable, competent and realistic in the future]!

Anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic.

Anybody who pretends to be objective isn't realistic.

Be realistic with your expectations. I'd really like to cuddle a unicorn, but it aint going to happen.

I believe politicians should always remain realistic.

You have to be realistic about where you are in life and enjoy it.

We have to be realistic. If we don't win, life will continue.

The most realistic blood I've seen is when Marlon Brando gets beat up in On The Waterfront.

We will never stop illegal immigration until this country has a comprehensive, realistic immigration policy.

I try to be as realistic as possible.

I have always tried to keep truth in my photographs. My work, whether realistic or abstract, has always dealt with a form of religion or imagination.

It is far easier to debate about realistic painting than to paint one.

I like to set realistic goals for myself, not outrageous ones.

The subject of a good tragedy must not be realistic.

I don't think it's realistic for someone to have an undying loyalty to everything you ever make.

We have to think about what the future is going to look like for people. People are afraid of robotization; they're afraid of globalization; they're afraid of all these things. And Trump's solution to that is: shut the borders; America first; everything's got to be made here, which is of course, not realistic - in his own companies everything's not made here at all - but I think we have to engage in issues that do cross these demographic boundaries.

The 3-D effects in "Star Wars" are so realistic, you can actually see George Lucas reaching from the screen and taking the money from your wallet.

I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.

Job's unraveling wasn't wrong or sinful; rather, it was emotionally realistic.

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