Alex Ebert Quotes

The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.

I am quite a dreamer. I think we all are dreamers. We all don't like to live a practical life all the time. There is a thin line between our hopes and dreams.

I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.

I like imagination -- and the way I think things could be, had been, or should be -- better than reality.

I'm not as optimistic as Gene Roddenberry was. I fall somewhere in the middle. But as a romantic, I like to think things are going to get bigger rather than worse.

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

The more a man dreams, the less he believes.

I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist... or maybe even a pessimist.

There's a part of every person that is entertained by the idealistic, the fantastic.

When I was younger, I was somewhat of an idealist. I guess I'm a little bit more of a realist now. I think there's a lot that can be done to make the world a better place, but it's more about choosing your battles.

Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Don't look back, you can never look back.

I guess maybe I'm idealistic.

Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?

The possible ranks higher than the actual.

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.

To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia.

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

American dreams are strongest in the hearts of those who have seen America only in their dreams.

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

I believed totally in the possibilities implied in the series. I never thought of it as fantasy. Far from it.

You can't be idealistic in this world and not be crazy.

A lot of our assumptions of the world are fairly cynical, fairly negative, and assume the worst. What our reading tastes show - in this rush to fantasy, romance, whatever - is that we actually still want to believe in a world of possibility, in a world of mystery.

I might dream, but I am no dreamer.

As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.

I'm a realist.