Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing Quotes

#1. Ain't nothing like the real thing.

Marvin Gaye

#2. Maybe I am getting too grown to want to sleep with Mama. But like a baby, I still have this smallness to my mind. I don't need her hands to convince me the world I can't see from under my blanket is real. I need her hands to do more than her words. Convince me the world I see outside it- ain't.

Connie Rose Porter

#3. We understand and recognize what is good, but we do not labor to bring it to fulfillment, some of us out of laziness, some because we put something else, some pleasure, before virtue
and there are many pleasures in life, long conversations and indolence-that pleasing vice..

Euripides

#4. The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.

John Lyly

#5. Music is a science, it heals depression, it awakens, most people don't know, they just take music for an entertainment, something to dance to, and enjoy yourself and you go to bed and forget it tomorrow, music must never be forgotten, it's like a fountain that keeps on flowing

Peter Tosh

#6. Sanguine took a moment, finding it hard to process the information. He ... this guy uses a wand? For real? He actually uses a wand? Like a wizard? ... Don't the other Necromancers have any sense of pride? What's he gonna do next, fly around on a broomstick? This ain't Harry Potter.

Derek Landy

#7. It is imperative that a woman keep her sense of humor intact and at the ready. She must see, even if only in secret, that she is the funniest, looniest woman in her world, which she should also see as being the most absurd world of all times.

Maya Angelou

#8. For every reader, like me, who scheduled his/her classes around their favorite soap opera.

Elisabeth Naughton

#9. The ability to represent failure as success would become an Agency tradition.

Tim Weiner

#10. Don't go taking that gospel stuff seriously. It's nice to clean you out now and then, but it ain't for real. It's like bad whiskey. Run through you fast and leave you with pain.

Dorothy Allison

#11. No love is lost; unless we try, to make it last forever.

Seekerohan

#12. You know we got two lives, sometimes more. I don't mean like reincarnation, I mean like we have our life of innocence and then it rams right into the real life. The life where innocence is just a mirror - looks nice, reflects a lot, but it ain't the real thing. I

Douglas Clegg

#13. No, you need to listen, she says. This ain't Silverlake, an you ain't the daddy. Out here in the real world, the person who knows what they're doin is the daddy an right now, that's me. So. Do like daddy says an shift that tasty butt of yers. Unless, of course, you want it shot off.

Moira Young

#14. Ain't real big on fear. I tried it once, and well ... didn't like the taste of it. Burped it up for days afterwards and have no intention of doing that again.
-Jess 'Sundown

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#15. Courage is the belief in self, and the possible ability to prevail in the face of adversity.

Tony Dovale

#16. Everything must have in it a sharp seasoning of truth.

St. Jerome

#17. Lie on your back and pinch off your nose. Preferably with a diver's nose clip, but your fingers will do. Just make a point to arrange your arm in a way that minimizes its fatigue. Stick a drinking straw in your mouth and breathe. That's it.

Andy Bolton

#18. Please, your story, or I shall offend the dignitaries of my kingdom by yawning at holy things.

Diana Wynne Jones

#19. Always listen to your heart and listen to your gut. Neither of them will ever lie to you.

Michael Houbrick

#20. I didn't know what types of movies I wanted to do. I want to do things that are different. I want to take my time with each role.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#21. So there you have it, the extent of my charms: brown hair and eyes like unbarfed chocolate. I'm a lucky girl. -Max

James Patterson

#22. Kind of, but it's more than that. It's like a lot of shit you've been told in your life is a lie. All these rules and all these things you worry about... they ain't got real meanin' on their own. The only meanin' they got is what we give 'em, you know?

L.T. Vargus

#23. Listen, ah don't wanna speak ill of the dead but have ah told you that mah mother was a great whopping whale of a cunt? Well she was precisely that - a great whopping whale of a hog's cunt with a dirty maggot for a brain.

Nick Cave