Quotes About Something Real

#1. Unless something real cool comes along, I will probably be doing features, so long as I can make a living doing that. Otherwise, I will do another show.

Danny Masterson

#2. In the words of Lynne McTaggart: Living consciousness somehow is the influence that turns the possibility of something into something real. The most essential ingredient in creating our universe is the consciousness that observes it.

Dan Brown

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

Marcus Speh

#4. Something can only become an illusion after disillusionment. before that, it is something real. what caused the disillusionment? no one told me the print on the wall was just ink and paper and had no life of its own. at some point the cat stopped blinking, and i stopped thinking it could.

Lynda Barry

#5. I'd want the human voice expressing grievances, or delight, or whatever it might be. But something real

Studs Terkel

#6. If I can make something real and it's appreciated and accessible to other people, I'm happy.

Lizz Wright

#7. Do something real, and keep it simple.

Craig Newmark

#8. The best visual effects are when you shoot as much of what you can in camera. And it's really good for the actor's performance to have something real.

Rob Letterman

#9. In our daily lives, where we're bombarded by the fake and the trivial, reading serves as a way to stop, shut out the noise of the world, and try to grab hold of something real, no matter how small.

Maureen Corrigan

#10. They said "soon" to each other often, and "soon" gave their plan the weight of something real.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#11. I'm all out o faith, this is how I feel. I'm cold and I am shamed lying naked on the floor. Illusions never change into something real. I'm wide awake and I can see the perfect sky is torn. You're a little late, I'm already torn.

Natalie Imbruglia

#12. Science - or the products of science like technology - is just a way of achieving something real, something that happens, something that works.

Richard Dawkins

#13. I want to know something real. Something that not everyone in the world knows about you." His puppy face deepens, his mouth sagging at the corners.

"I can't get to sleep when I have socks on, but my feet are always cold so it's kind of a problem.

Jasmine Warga

#14. She wasn't fantasy anymore. But something real, something he couldn't imagine living without, and he crossed his arms, as if bracing himself from the possibility that all this might slip away.

Nicholas Sparks

#15. I think you can laugh the hardest when you get closest to something real.

Mimi Kennedy

#16. I love songs that tell stories. They make you feel something, something real.

Daphne Ashbrook

#17. A person or an act is never entirely Sansara or entirely Nirvana, a person is never entirely holy or entirely sinful. It does really seem like this, because we are subject to deception, as if time was something real. Time is not real.

Hermann Hesse

#18. There's something real in women's intuition. It's an accurate signpost for decision making, but it usually bumps up against man's logic. So we have to put ego aside and listen to them.

Jon Voight

#19. In many criminals, especially youthful ones, it is possible to detect a very powerful sense of guilt which existed before the crime, and is therefore not its result but its motive. It is as if it was a relief to be able to fasten this unconscious sense of guilt on to something real and immediate.

Sigmund Freud

#20. It is only through fiction and the dimension of the imaginary that we can learn something real about individual experience. Any other approach is bound to be general and abstract.

Nicola Chiaromonte

#21. Living consciousness somehow is the influence that turn the possibility of something into something real..The most essential ingredient in creating our universe is the consciousness that observe it.

Lynne McTaggart

#22. Look closer and you'll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.

Zelda Fitzgerald

#23. You want something real bad? Go after it with ferocity like if your life depended on it and never ever surrender. Only a question of time.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#24. Everyone wants something real, something that was created to invoke a positive feeling.

Mikey Way

#25. Jazz took too much discipline. You have to come in at the right place, which is different than me singing the blues, where I can sing, 'Oh, baby,' if there's a pause in the melody. With jazz, you better leave that space open, or put in something real cool.

Etta James

#26. They say my public persona don't have enough appeal, I take a lesson from Kanye and give 'em something real.

Donald Glover

#27. Legends, then, are seldom formed out of thin air. They grow out of something real. That original something may be extremely different from the final legend, but the kernel of truth is there nevertheless.

Catherine M. Andronik

#28. It's the balance between wanting the power of electronics and having something real happening - if you want people to engage in what you're doing, I think that's important. I want to have fun with people, but that's hard to do with a laptop.

Anna Meredith

#29. He carried a highly ecclesiastical umbrella, like something real and austere, that said its prayers at night in the hatstand. I

Sebastian Barry

#30. Everybody is trying to make something real, something with a core of substance, and of course, an exciting action movie with a lot of terrific stuff and fantastic visuals and everything, but at the core of it, it's a movie with substance and something that is going to make people think.

Joel Kinnaman

#31. I don't want to only ever meet you in the woods, even though I love this. I ... I gotta feel like there's something real beyond these trees. I want to be able to take you on a date. Just ... once.

Linda Kage

#32. I think I wanna do some action stuff down the road. I wanna kill some aliens. Something real fun, you know? Just a big, fun movie.

Ja Rule

#33. You can't make money without selling something real. You can't make something real without first imagination manifesting itself in your head. You can't have imagination without surrendering yourself to an idea that you want to create something of value to other human beings.

James Altucher

#34. I went to Northwestern in Chicago, in Evanston, and then I ended up trickling down in Chicago theater. I did a bunch of plays, but I was non-equity. For a lot of people, non-equity means you're not yet professional. But for me, if you're in a mainstream theater, you're doing something real.

Denis O'Hare

#35. I guess that's where faith comes in, the faith of a child to believe in Santa, the faith of an adult to believe in God, maybe faith is what makes something real? Maybe Rose had believed enough to create her own afterlife, maybe that's the reward of faith ...

Gillibran Brown

#36. Just say something real. Everyone just always tries so hard, and it all comes out the same. I just want someone to say something real.

Katie Alender

#37. Sharing the same passionate love with another person, gives a feeling of being alive! The experience of something real, is unforgettable.

Ellen J. Barrier

#38. We know it's all just daydreaming ... But sometimes, it'd be nice just to hold something real in your hands that felt like a measure of your worth.

Shannon Hale

#39. I guess, really thinking about it, I always assumed when you missed someone , it was tangible ... something real you could grab and hold on to, but it's a not-there feeling.

Norma Fox Mazer

#40. It's always considered bad taste to comment on a tragedy right when it's happening, but I love when something is considered too soon to talk about because then you can blast past that social censorship to get into something real.

Margaret Cho

#41. Future is something imaginary but the present moment is something real!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#42. I really don't want somebody writing something positive about me if they don't believe in it. I'd rather somebody write something real mean. I like reading bad stuff, it gets me excited. In fact, the only reviews I keep are the bad ones 'cause I think they're the cool ones.

Patti Smith

#43. it's about phrasing, and being delicate, and getting just the right feeling from a song, the soul of it, so that something real happens inside you when a man opens his mouth to sing, and don't you want to feel something real rather than just having your poor earholes bashed in?" He

Zadie Smith

#44. We're trying to fill something internal with something external. We're trying to fill something real with something illusionary.

Isha Judd

#45. Being asked to describe what 'post-racial' means is a bit like being asked to describe a leprechaun, cold fusion or unicorns: we know what is meant, but, if we are willing to be honest, we also know that none of the four describe something real, something tangible, something true.

Tim Wise

#46. Are you looking for something real in this world of illusions? Call me. Casual Flings need not apply. I am looking for Love.

Aprilynne Pike

#47. What a gift. This page is briefly stained by my tears of gratitude. Novelists don't usually have it so good, do they, when something real happens (something unified, dramatic and pretty saleable), and they just write it down?

Martin Amis

#48. I watched 'Evil Dead' when I was 12. I was going through all the horror I could grab. I remember going to the video store and asking for something 'real.' And the guy gave me the 'Evil Dead' VHS. When you're 12, you're not supposed to see that.

Fede Alvarez

#49. Built on the insubstantial foundation of our feelings, the life we had created together seemed a figment of our imaginations that dissolved into fairy dust in the face of something real, and deadly, like cancer.

Kim Van Alkemade

#50. My sister, Judy, has always said that she would like to lie in state, propped up in her coffin with her eyes blared wide open, face fixed in a big grin, and have a taped greeting for all her mourners. Something real upbeat and, well, live-sounding, like: 'He-e-e-ey!Cuteshoestellyomamahi!

Jill Conner Browne

#51. Suddenly for no earthly reason I felt immensely sorry for him and longed to say something real, something with wings and a heart, but the birds I wanted settled on my shoulders and head only later when I was alone and not in need of words.

Vladimir Nabokov

#52. Sometimes I'll watch a movie all over again to recapture that feeling of being inside something real.

Gayle Forman

#53. Three years later and drowning in lies, we're suddenly prepared to lose everything for the chance at something real.

Krista Ritchie

#54. Life is short. You die before you think you're going to. Don't waste it in college unless you're doing something real. My view.

Tucker Carlson

#55. I'm at the point in my life when I'm ready to have a baby. Something real in a crazy world.

Pia Zadora

#56. I think unintentionally I gravitate towards concepts and topics that hit home or are something real we can all relate to.

Seth Gordon

#57. Why is a picture of something real eventually more exciting than the thing itself?

Jamaica Kincaid

#58. You don't know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.

Carson McCullers

#59. That's sad. How plastic and artificial life has become. It gets harder and harder to find something ... real." Nin interlocked his fingers, and stretched out his arms. "Real love, real friends, real body parts ...

Jess C. Scott

#60. What a strange mind, to cover the real thing with an imitation of something real.

Frances Mayes

#61. In my opinion, questions that are based on something real ought to be settled by something real without all this damned lazy miserable drifting

Joanna Russ

#62. Something real, cool, and solid, lies before you something unromantic as Monday morning, when all who have work wake with the consciousness that they must rise and betake themselves thereto.

Charlotte Bronte

#63. You remind me that there's so much more to life. You're my something real to grasp on to at the end of the day. You ground me. I love you and that's not going to change.

Kendall Ryan

#64. Whatever a writer gets paid for his book, it's never enough. I think that's true. It's hard work. But in the end, you wrote a book. It's something real and tangible that sits on a shelf forever.

Jim Gaffigan

#65. "But love ? Is that what you feel for Morpheus?"
I swallow hard. "I'm not sure. It's all wrapped up in my loyalties to Wonderland. But there's something real between us. Something powerful." I sink further into my seat. "It's complicated."

A.G. Howard

#66. I just want something that is real and that moves people. And just want to make something real.

Lizz Wright

#67. It's the band that really counts and not our egos. Egos probably destroyed more bands than anything else did, and that's something we want to avoid at all costs. We want to give the audience something real, something spectacular, and if it would be about egos, it would hardly be worth their time.

Chester Bennington

#68. The one thing I've learned while doing this work is that as much as I enjoy playing out romantic fantasies, it's still just pretend, and more and more I'm craving something real.

Leisa Rayven

#69. I knew I was strong, and maybe like they said, "crazy." But I had this feeling inside of me that something real was there.

Charles Bukowski

#70. To learn how to do, we need something real to focus on - not a task assigned by someone else, but something we want to create, something we want to understand. Not an empty exercise but a meaningful, self-chosen undertaking.

Lori McWilliam Pickert

#71. Some people might leave you,' he said, for once ignoring a joke in favor of something real. 'But it doesn't mean you're worth leaving. It doesn't mean that at all.

Veronica Roth

#72. And who must have had something real about her, or she could not have existed, but it certainly was not her hair, or her teeth, or her figure, or her complexion.

Charles Dickens

#73. The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real.

Simone Veil

#74. When something real is about to happen to you, you go toward it with a transparent surface parallel to your own front that hums and bisects both your ears, making eyes very alert. The light bends toward chalky blue. Your skin aches. At last: something real.

Thomas Pynchon

#75. So many reality shows are scripted and create this fake drama, and it's a bunch of bull. We wanted to do something real and something wholesome and something that's focused on positive family values.

Bill Rancic

#76. From my studies of old and recent reports, and from direct involvement with several UFO investigations, I have become convinced that there is something real and new behind the UFO phenomenon.

Bruce Maccabee

#77. What a terrible mistake to let go of something wonderful for something real.

Miranda July

#78. I'm trying to do something real different; I'm trying to bring the street to real pop. I'm trying to bring the street to pop. Not watering it down, no nothing.

Timbaland

#79. Their relationship isn't perfect in a lot of ways, bit it's something real. And real should probably be the goal, not perfection. Every relationship is flawed; you just have to figure out how to make it work. Keep trying.

Lindsey Leavitt

#80. You turn into this desperate dude looking for a shred of attention when you just had so much. It's like, "I'm just lonely and all I really want is a hug, but I gotta capture that in something real gross." You start to understand why circus clowns are alcoholics.

Babatunde Adebimpe

#81. The best lie is the one that has an element of truth, so it's good to include something real in your fiction.

Renee Conoulty

#82. We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?

Ray Bradbury

#83. There's such a feeling of satisfaction when something you imagined turned into something real.

Prabal Gurung

#84. It's not the amount of time that makes something real. It's what happens in that time," he said solemnly. "Each moment is weighted against the next, and the moments I've spent with you have been more meaningful than almost all the ones I've had before it.

Amanda Hocking

#85. Show me something real

Unknown

#86. How do you write about something, even something real and painful-like suicide-when all of the writing that's been done on that subject has robbed you of any originality of expression?

Jeffrey Eugenides

#87. There was no stopping it ... The way you worked yourself right into my heart. You took it over, Aly. You made me feel something real again when I believed all I could feel was hate.

A.L. Jackson

#88. Religious life is about something real in human experience that is not constrained by what Wittgenstein called 'all that is the case'. In this sense Heidegger is not simply 'mistaken' - he just asks us, as philosophers mostly do, to think more carefully about what we're saying.

George Pattison

#89. I desire to have a dialogue that's positive, and communicative and moves forward, and is about something real, not just consumption.

Mike Vallely

#90. Men who have a lot of charm have it in place of something real that you are eventually going to want from them and find that they do not have.

Merrill Markoe

#91. Most of all I want to make pop music that has something real behind it.

Alex Winston

#92. Any perception can connect us to reality, properly and fully. What we see doesn't have to be pretty, particularly; we can appreciate anything that exists. There is some principle of magic in everything, some living quality. Something living, something real, is taking place in everything.

Chogyam Trungpa

#93. If God is all-powerful, then the Devil must be nothing more than a darkness in the mind of God. But if the Devil is something real and separate, than perfection is impossible, and there can be no God ... except for the aspirations of fallen angels ...

Tad Williams

#94. I can't speak for readers in general, but personally I like to read stories behind which there is some truth, something real and above all, something emotional. I don't like to read essays on literature; I don't like to read critical or rational or impersonal or cold disquisitions on subjects.

Laura Esquivel

#95. I want something real. Something that leads to something more than sex.

Victoria Denault

#96. I needed a piece of a story, something real and full of life and blood and breath and heartache, something that someone had lived through, a piece of wisdom earned the hard way. That's why telling our stories is so important.

Shauna Niequist

#97. It is not a camera, or a reporter that makes something real and genuine; more often a camera or a reporter does the opposite.

Curtis Sittenfeld

#98. All fiction comes from a little bit of reality, otherwise it would have no relevance. The fun is in innovation, take something real like this fair, and make it something larger than life.

Garrison Keillor

#99. Say something real,' she whispers.
'Je t'aime.' I love you.

Krista Ritchie

#100. The finger-biter's feelings for her ex-husband were a bonsai tree - they may have started in something real, but she'd tended them so closely and for so long they were now purely decorative.

Elizabeth McCracken