Quotes About Real

#1. I think the fact that I look totally artificial, but I am totally real, has its own kind of magic in it.

Dolly Parton

#2. It's when you are trying to make something that is "authentic" as opposed to real - people who appreciate music for the wrong reasons tend to compartmentalize stuff.

James Hunter

#3. How hard a thing is life to the lowly, and yet how human and real!

W.E.B. Du Bois

#4. People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next.

Chuck Norris

#5. Rather than go to a demonstration to burn an effigy of the author Salman Rushdie, I would have hoped that it'd be the real thing.

Cat Stevens

#6. God doesn't hand you an easy life because you will grow in it. He hands you a dream with hurdles, obstacles, setbacks, battles and challenges because he knows the real you is at the finishing line.

Shannon L. Alder

#7. Your goals are constantly revised according to circumstance, but your purpose, your real reason for being, that supercedes everything.

Jim Tressel

#8. He has never understood that sometimes real love requires one to let the beloved go. Probably he never will.

Sara Craven

#9. Give a real meaning to what you wear; wear what has a real meaning.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#10. I love sketch comedy. My real goal is to do something with Albert Brooks. That would be my fantasy. I stay up night and day thinking up stuff he might find funny.

Illeana Douglas

#11. What we do at the end of every season - which is why it's probably not the greatest idea to talk about things in the visitor's locker room after the final game - we sit down and have real serious conversations with all of the senior people.

Jeffrey Lurie

#12. the desire and hunger for education is the key to real learning.

Jim Stovall

#13. A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Tony Robbins

#14. Now we're in the middle of a three-sided vampire war. Which would be an awesome video game, but I'm really not interested in playing for real. I like my reset buttons.

Rachel Caine

#15. He was like a real dad, you know. We used to sit down with guitars and mess around.

Julian Lennon

#16. I have got nothing against family companies, but there must be real equity, that is all I say. It cannot be based on influence or political friendships. It has to be based on real equity backing their dreams.

Uday Kotak

#17. A restaurant wine list is praised and given awards for reasons that have little to do with its real purpose, as if it existed only to be admired passively, like a stamp collection. A wine list is good only when it functions well in tandem with a menu.

Gerald Asher

#18. The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.

Nikos Kazantzakis

#19. A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God. Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?

Abigail Adams

#20. She had a heart like a Twinkie, full of oversweet goo, yes, a real junk-food heart.

Jean Thompson

#21. This is a work of fiction, and the people in it are fictitious. The ghosts are real.

Nathaniel Benchley

#22. Programming today is the opposite of diamond mining. In diamond mining you dig up a lot of dirt to find a small bit of value. With programming you start with the value, the real intention, and bury it in a bunch of dirt.

Charles Simonyi

#23. A novel that features real people is complicated, but in the end, that extra challenge is all for the good.

Rick Bass

#24. A single prop that does not look real to an audience can louse you up. The same is true of the smallest flaw in setting up the motivation in a story line.

Desi Arnaz

#25. Night is real. Night is not an absence of light, but in fact, it is daytime that is a brief respite from the looming darkness ...

Guillermo Del Toro

#26. I had the feeling that focusing on objects and telling a story through them would make my protagonists different from those in Western novels - more real, more quintessentially of Istanbul.

Orhan Pamuk

#27. You are a spitfire of a woman, do you know that? You remind me of a horse that hasn't been broken yet. All skittish and full of wild energy."
"Are you for real?" Her jaw fell open. "Did you just compare me to a horse?

Sara Humphreys

#28. It's my real name. My mother's name is Rose Rock. It was the worst name as a kid to have. They called me Piece of the Rock, Plymouth Rock, Joe Rockid, and Flintstones. Now they call me Mister Rock.

Chris Rock

#29. Too many so-called leaders of the movement have been made into celebrities and their revolutionary fervor destroyed by mass media. They become Hollywood objects and lose identification with the real issues. The task is to transform society; only the people can do that

Huey Newton

#30. Once upon a time you would have said there are no real choices, only God's will.

Anonymous

#31. Real age, as I came to see from the genuine pieces that passed through my hands, was variable, crooked, capricious, singing here and sullen there, warm asymmetrical streaks on a rosewood cabinet from where a slant of sun had struck it while the other side was as dark as the day it was cut.

Donna Tartt

#32. I want to have conversations about real things with people who have experienced real things. I'm tired of talking about movies and gossiping about friends. Life is crunchy and complicated and all the more delicious.

Amy Poehler

#33. Now I realized that life supplies us with everything we need for the journey. Everything I had acquired either actively or passively, everything I had learned either voluntarily or by osmosis, was coming back to me as the real riches of my life, even though I had lost everything.

Ingrid Betancourt

#34. The real enforcer, and this is true for the entire Lycurgan system, was peer pressure.

Scott Rusch

#35. We must consider how very little history there is
I mean real, authentic history. That certain kings reigned and certain battles were fought, we can depend upon as true; but all the coloring, all the philosophy, of history is conjecture.

Samuel Johnson

#36. When I moved to Los Angeles, I figured I'm really going to make an attempt to become a real actor. And when I did that, I thought it was time for me to face my parents and tell them what I did.

Kenneth Choi

#37. Real men always have time for their woman. No matter what, even if hes busy he'll find a way to make time for her.

Wiz Khalifa

#38. I'm pretty much using media all day because my school is online. It's sort of like homeschooling but also like going to real school - you log in and do all your work and email it to the teacher, and we have a teacher who oversees us on set.

Nolan Gould

#39. The bracelet validates that my memory is a real one.

Colleen Hoover

#40. If [things] seem to have a relative unreality ... it is because they are potential and not actual; they are unfulfilled ... They have it in them to be more real than they are.

G.K. Chesterton

#41. Carlos was probably somewhere warm, eating three meals a day, and sleeping in a real bed. That was the life

Susan Beth Pfeffer

#42. Did you know that bone china had real bones in it?" Poppy said, tapping a porcelain cheek. "Her clay was made from human bones. Little-girl bones. That hair threaded through the scalp is the little girl's hair. And the body of the doll is filled with her leftover ashes.

Holly Black

#43. Nobody's really unsympathetic, I think. People do good and bad things. If a character's totally unsympathetic, they're not real and I'm not interested. Even the real monsters have to have a spark of something you can relate to.

Matthew Macfadyen

#44. May your convictions be deep, your love real, and your desires earnest

Charles Spurgeon

#45. I'm frightened of nothing anymore," answered Fell simply, "except lies. For they're the real killers.

David Clement-Davies

#46. My grandma has fake teeth but her smile is real

Jason Myers

#47. Frank Sebastiano is a real write. He has two Emmys, one from 'SNL' and the other from 'The Chris Rock Show' . The only award I have is an FM-mmy.

Artie Lange

#48. When you're guest-starring, it's very nice, but you're there very briefly, and it's right there in the name: You're a guest. It's very hard to get a real sense of belonging. With recurring and regular roles, at least you have a sense that this is a home and a steady place.

Zeljko Ivanek

#49. Potential audiences are real people found in real places.

Suzanne Lacy

#50. He could no longer remember his real name. He felt empty and cleansed, in that place that was not a place. He was without form, and void. He was nothing.

Neil Gaiman

#51. It's a real triumph taking a painting out from a pit-hole with a loose and open approach. Some aspects in its favour are those strange accidents that can produce amazing results.

Bill Vaughan

#52. Something changed in part of reality - my knees and my hands.
What science has knowledge for this?
The blind man goes on his way and I don't make any more gestures.
It's already not the same time, or the same people, or anything the same.
This is being real.

Alberto Caeiro

#53. I'm proud I've been able to pay my rent doing what I love because I hate real jobs.

Travie McCoy

#54. The connectedness, actual real connectedness, not the fake bullshit connectedness that you get when you're twatting about on MDMA, it's like genuine telepathy or something, isn't it?

Stefan Mohamed

#55. Fantasy for me as a kid was real, and I had a fantasy about what life was, whether it was sort of wicked and dire, or wholly normal, or whatever. Anything really close to home is not, it seems to me, what a good book should be about.

Diana Wynne Jones

#56. The one thing that TV is bad at doing is preaching. There are two extremes, you either turn the people into a punchline or turn them into hero, and both of those things suck, because most people are neither in real life.

Mike Rowe

#57. After a lifetime of swimming upstream, I am convinced that one of the real secrets to Wal-mart's phenomenal success has been that very tendency.

Sam Walton

#58. Chinese citizens have never had the right to really express their opinions; in the constitution it says you can, but in the real world it is more dangerous. In the west people think it's a right they're born with. Here it's a right given by the government, and one that's not really practised.

Ai Weiwei

#59. With those kinds of statistics, there are real concerns that cannot be explained away other than race. How long do we turn a blind eye to it?.

Richard Ney

#60. Daily life is better when it involves interactions with real people who have a personal investment in their labour, like shopkeepers, than it is with someone 'just doing my job' or the infernal self-checkout machine.

Julian Baggini

#61. Popularity is more than looks. It's not clothes, hair, or even possessions. When we let go of these labels, we see how flimsy and relative they actually are. Real popularity is kindness and acceptance. It is about who you are, and how you treat others.

Maya Van Wagenen

#62. Real ugly girls have it tough. I feel so sorry for them sometimes.

J.D. Salinger

#63. A talent for truth is real property. If a man loves truth better than things, people like to be around where he is. Almost everybody wishes he could be honest, but you can't have the spirit of truth when your heart is set on dickering for things.

Lloyd C. Douglas

#64. It is a waste of time to see people who have only a social surface to show. I will make every effort to find out the real person, but if I can't, then I am upset and cross. Time wasted is poison.

May Sarton

#65. The more reasonable a student was in mathematics, the more unreasonable she was in the affairs of real life, concerning which fewtrustworthy postulates have yet been ascertained.

George Bernard Shaw

#66. Seth: I need you to be mine. I can't handle this chasing you around nonsense anymore. These moments we have, where it feels like I almost have you but I'm always wondering what you're thinking and waiting for you to run from me? I can't take it. It's for this to be a real relationship.

Kelly Oram

#67. I'm not afraid to have a character say, 'I am a Christian,' or, 'I believe in God,' because I think they represent real people on this Earth.

Tyler Perry

#68. Postpartum depression is a very real and very serious problem for many mothers. It can happen to a first time mom or a veteran mother. It can occur a few days ... or a few months after childbirth.

Richard J. Codey

#69. There's no real separation between the real world and the Internet. What we've begun to see now is a militarization of that space.

Jacob Appelbaum

#70. Devils so work that things which are not, appear to men as if they were real.

Lactantius

#71. Honest, open communication is the only street that leads us into the real world ... We then begin to grow as never before. And once we are on this road, happiness cannot be far away.

John Powell

#72. The only reason that we like complex numbers is that we don't like real numbers.

Bernd Sturmfels

#73. The tour life is real tough on a marriage. To the young guy who is just getting his PGA Tour card and is in a serious relationship, my advice is to wait three years before getting married.

Boo Weekley

#74. The real achievement of Woody Allen was that he was making movies that felt very personal, and for a whole group of people, it spoke to them. Then he became an archetype, like Groucho Marx or Chaplin.

Noah Baumbach

#75. First, however, and feeling real excitement at the thought, the good burst of adrenaline at last, Behringer wanted to dismantle the sockets and loosen his patient's eyes. Behringer

Jonathan Lethem

#76. Being queer you're supposed to adore figure skating. It's a sport, not an art. I love the costumes and hate the music and of course I worship Johnny Weir because so does he. Also he's real. It's a full gay thing and it always has been.

Mark Morris

#77. A lot of nudity in my early movies was out of necessity. When I came out to Hollywood, I didn't know anybody, I didn't have any connections. I did what a lot of people have to do in the real world, and just work up from the bottom.

Amber Heard

#78. When you look back at the fight against Communism, one thing that is striking is the degree to which we [the United States] were carried on by our own values. One of the real challenges of the new era is going to be to maintain those values and not adopt those of our adversaries.

David E. Hoffman

#79. Exploration by real people inspires us.

Stephen Hawking

#80. When you tell your truth, you are coming from a real place, so you are automatically a leader.

Mary J. Blige

#81. Don't misunderstand. I am not here bashing people who are homosexuals, who are lesbians, who are bisexual, who are transgender. We need to have profound compassion for people who are dealing with the very real issue of sexual dysfunction in their life and sexual identity disorders.

Michele Bachmann

#82. All the characters in this book are fictional, but they are as real to me as the members of my own family. I had to tell their story because they could not.

Maral Boyadjian

#83. Using something real does not destroy the fantastical; it underlines it.

Marcus Speh

#84. And I could tell she loved him. And although she was an evil fungus growing on 200 pounds of irritated lard, her feelings were real.

Lynda Barry

#85. We don't need to update the paper through the night, so we don't need so many people working anti-social hours producing a newspaper for real-time news. That's the equivalent of the steam age.

Lionel Barber

#86. In sports, you simply aren't considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke; winning it twice proves you are the best.

Althea Gibson

#87. Since pure awareness of nowness is real Enlightenment,
in openness and contentment I found the Truth in my heart.
By simply relaxing in this uncontrived, open, and natural state,
we obtain the quality of effortless freedom of whatever arises.

Jigdral Yeshe Dorje

#88. "The dream is real but it does not last" - This is an illusion.

Frederick Lenz

#89. As a gift to His people, the King painted their seven colors in the shape of a bridge in the sky, as a symbol for the real bridge that the people had just crossed.

E. Mellyberry

#90. The facts of science are real enough, and so are the techniques that scientists use, and so are the technologies based on them. But the belief system that governs conventional scientific thinking is an act of faith.

Rupert Sheldrake

#91. I try to keep it real. I don't have time to worry about what I'm projecting to the world. I'm just busy being myself.

Demi Lovato

#92. A noble birth and fortune, though they make not a bad man good, yet they are a real advantage to a worthy one and place his virtues in a fairer light.

George Lillo

#93. I've got absolutely no real perception, properly, of time.

Sade Adu

#94. You on the train and me here and everything emptier now you're gone. Tell me, are you real?

Paula McLain

#95. There's a convention that books are mirrors of the real world, but our fact-obsessed age also wants fiction to be factually based and trustworthy.

Jim Crace

#96. Unions, though they may for a time be able to secure an increase in money wages for their members, partly at the expense of employers and more at the expense of nonunionized workers, cannot, in the long-run and for the whole body of workers, increase real wages at all.

Henry Hazlitt

#97. The real argument against aristocracy is that it always means the rule of the ignorant. For the most dangerous of all forms of ignorance is ignorance of work.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#98. And that leaves you with an interesting choice ... Do you sacrifice you own happiness and feelings of peace in order to have this relationship, or do you start to get well and choose a real life ... ?

Nic Sheff

#99. When you go from the fake New Orleans of Disneyland to the real one, where the captain of the paddle-wheel steamer says it is possible to see alligators on the banks of the river, and then you don't see any, you risk feeling homesick for Disneyland.
-'City of Robots',1986

Umberto Eco

#100. Learning how to edit movies was a real breakthrough.

Peter Jackson