Quotes About The Real Thing

#1. There, don't you think I'm always a-fault-finding! When I get hold of the real thing in folks, I stick to 'em, - but there's an awful sight of poor material walking about that ain't worth the ground it steps on.

Sarah Orne Jewett

#2. Life had become a reproduction: it was not the real thing.

Ray Davies

#3. What is the use of merely listening to lectures? The real thing is practice.

Ramakrishna

#4. I don't have time to read popular fiction. I'm too busy with work.' Secretaries, he thought acidly, read that junk, at home in bed at night. It stimulates them. Instead of the real thing. Which they're afraid of. But of course really crave.

Philip K. Dick

#5. The real thing is that sweet joy you feel when you're in the midst of it.

Jan Phillips

#6. You can always spot the real thing, that affection; why does it always come from the wrong person?

Jess Walter

#7. I'm not trying to sign people up to a creed, I'm much more interested in the people that disagree. These ideas are powerful but this isn't mysticism in the ordinary sense to be protected by mumblings about faith and all that. This is the real thing.

Terence McKenna

#8. This larger goal wouldn't be the imitation of education in Universities today, glossed over and concealed by grades and degrees that give the appearance of something happening when, in fact, almost nothing is going on. It would be the real thing.

Robert M. Pirsig

#9. 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

#10. Falling in love is like eating mushrooms, you never know if it's the real thing until it's too late.

Bill Ballance

#11. The real thing is, you should be seeing these plays in the Theatre. That's what they were written for. That's where the enjoyment is. Studying them is no enjoyment whatsoever.

Tony Randall

#12. Then when Matt had come along it hadn't been fireworks, passion and fights and drama. It had been low- key, sweet, lovely. But that didn't meant it wasn't the real thing. It never had done. Just because it wasn't suprising hadn't meant it wasn't right.

Jenny Colgan

#13. I can think of no other experience quite like that of being 20 or so pages into a book and realizing that this is the real thing: a book that is going to offer the delicious promise of a riveting story, arresting language and characters that will haunt me for days.

Anita Shreve

#14. I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting.

Antonia Fraser

#15. It took the real thing to show you the size of your delusions.

Ann Brashares

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

Frances Mayes

#17. When you see that sunset or that panoramic view of God's finest expressed in nature, and the beauty just takes your breath away, remember it is just a glimpse of the real thing that awaits you in heaven.

Greg Laurie

#18. I always used to say to my ex-girlfriends that I could never take a good photograph of them, because there was too much of an intimacy between us, but actually the real thing is, if there's a proper intimacy between you ... I find it really compelling and exciting - it's quite good foreplay.

Rankin

#19. Love isn't perfect. It's hard work and sometimes it's more effort to be in love than it is to just run away. If you keep looking for perfect, the real thing is going to pass right by you.

Jay Crownover

#20. Greek mathematics is the real thing. The Greeks first spoke a language which modern mathematicians can understand ... So Greek mathematics is 'permanent', more permanent even than Greek literature.

G.H. Hardy

#21. It is what it looks like and is called. A jail. it is not a front for something else, not a facade, not a pseudonym. It is real, the real thing, the thing behind the words.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#22. They swapped the real thing for an image of the real thing.

Bob Goff

#23. Substance is like tree and smartness its shadow. The smartness is what we think it is and the substance is the real thing!

Utpal Vaishnav

#24. I didn't want to see George Hamilton playing me, I wanted the real thing.

Robert Evans

#25. They probably didn't care if it was the real thing or not. They wanted it to be. And by suspending their disbelief they could believe in the illusion.

Alexandra Potter

#26. Brandon Sanderson is the real thing-an exciting storyteller with a unique and powerful vision. ELANTRIS is one of the finest debuts I've seen in years.

David Farland

#27. If we split practice from the real thing, neither one of them will be very real.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

#28. My only market analysis was to look around and see that, in one way or another, most watches are inspired by watches that were made in the 18th and 19th centuries. If I wanted a watch like that, I'd much rather buy the real thing at auction than a replica.

Richard Mille

#29. The preference most of them had for seeing through their camera, rather than looking at the real thing, and so on.

Alice Munro

#30. The real thing creates its own poetry.

Anzia Yezierska

#31. All wishes are best granted metaphorically. Metaphors are much easier to see than the real thing.

Rachael McKay

#32. The illusion of knowledge and freedom is not the same as the real thing.

Aimee Carter

#33. Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

#34. I've survived broken hearts. You will, too. They're all worth it when you find the real thing. The right one.

M. Leighton

#35. This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.

Gertrude Stein

#36. Food for thought is no substitute for the real thing.

Walt Kelly

#37. I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know they're getting the real thing.

Jackie Collins

#38. ...He's a wonderful person and I'd fall head over heels in love with him if I haven't already, there's no doubt about it. And there's no doubt that he'd eventually leave me. There's no way anything between us would go somewhere. I'm done with flings. I want the next thing--the real thing.

Karyn Bosnak

#39. They're just actors. I much prefer the real thing!

Alan Clark

#40. She looks like the real thing, She tastes like the real thing, My fake plastic love. But I can't help the feeling, I could blow through the ceiling If I just turned and ran.

Thom Yorke

#41. No point in wasting time with false vanity when you possess the real thing.

Alan Bradley

#42. As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.

Colette

#43. No matter how great we get with digital formats of instrumentation, nothing really quite duplicates the real thing.

Michael Bolton

#44. There's only one requirement of any of us, and that is to be courageous. Because courage, as you might know, defines all other human behavior. And, I believe - because I've done a little of this myself - pretending to be courageous is just as good as the real thing.

David Letterman

#45. Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.

John Berger

#46. Tom Stoppard's other work includes: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Jumpers, Travesties, Night and Day, After Magritte, The Real Thing, Enter A Free Man, Hapgood, Arcadia, Indian Ink (a stage adaptation of his own play, In the Native State) and The Invention of Love. Arcadia

Tom Stoppard

#47. The Ethan of her dreams had disappeared. He was just another person who was sad. She was kind of glad, actually. Dreams disappeared when you woke up. The real thing was better anyway.

Elizabeth Woods

#48. (A murderer about their victim
He was an expert in vicarious death. I should like to have been there to see how he enjoyed the real thing.

P.D. James

#49. You're mine, Angel, and don't you forget it. Your fights are my fights. What if something bad had happened today? It was bad enough when I thought your ghost was haunting me; I don't think I can handle the real thing.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#50. More than anything, people want the reality of the discussion at hand. If what is going on in that building is the real thing, if the transforming love and power of Jesus Christ is being experienced, you can sit on a metal folding chair or in a plush theater seat.

Bill Hybels

#51. In middle age, I practiced feeling old, but the real thing has been a rude surprise.

Mason Cooley

#52. More like the real thing,' said the lord Digory softly.

C.S. Lewis

#53. Before or After? Fern:
Before, anticipation is usually better than the real thing.
Ambrose: After. The real thing, when done right, is always better
than a daydream. Fern wouldn't know, would she? She let that one
slide.

Amy Harmon

#54. Holly Black is the Real Thing: a gifted writer with a solid grounding in what matters. Her stories are dark and splendid blooms rising from roots sunk deep in myth and tradition.

Ellen Kushner

#55. Knock-offs may look good, but they never last as long as the real thing.

N.M. Silber

#56. [On the] question of why we might want to look at images even more than the real thing: I think there is some quality when you look at an image of, not only seeing this thing, whether it's the horse or the sky, but you are seeing somebody point at it and say, Look!

Rebecca Solnit

#57. I do like a little romance ... just a sniff, as I call it, of the rocks and valleys. Of course, bread-and-cheese is the real thing. The rocks and valleys are no good at all, if you haven't got that.

Anthony Trollope

#58. It didn't matter what we did or where we did it as long as we were together. We knew we'd found what most people either pursue in years of futile search or dismiss as a fantasy at the outset: the missing half of ourselves. The real thing.

John Perry Barlow

#59. Now that is the real thing, the straight goods from the mass unconscious, friend; that little girl is a witch. There's just no place for her to function in this society. She'd have seen the devil, if she hadn't been brought up on The Bionic Man and all those Star Trek reruns.

William Gibson

#60. 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

#61. He leaned down and placed his lips on mine and gave me the most delicious kiss of my entire life. I saw fireworks light up the night sky. My heart beat like a drum. I knew without a shadow of a doubt that I loved him, and that made this kiss the best of my entire life. This kiss was the real thing.

Shannon McCrimmon

#62. Pornography is to sex what McDonalds is to food. A plasticized, generic version of the real thing.

Gail Dines

#63. Your political reputation affects how likely allies are to trust you, and what kind of deals they'll offer at the negotiating table. There's also some emotional response in there, so factions do bear grudges. Just like the real thing.

Mike Simpson

#64. Don't let that little pyramid with the bright eye fool you. That's to draw your attention away from the real thing: the big trapezoid beneath it.

Anton Szandor LaVey

#65. In reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of arbitrary signs.

Edith Wharton

#66. We have invented sex guilt to take our minds off the real thing.

Muriel Spark

#67. It is really no surprise that, in a media world that has been so compromised by an invasion of political partisans and inarticulate airheads with communications degrees, a fake journalist can seem more trustworthy than the real thing.

David Horsey

#68. Does the real thing ever have the perfection of a stage performance?

Agatha Christie

#69. The real thing you do is you ask a lot of questions.

Keith Rabois

#70. The real thing young people should fear is missing out on those few, true, long-term friendships that make for a richer, happier life.

Robin Marantz Henig

#71. I truly believe that we each have a House of Belonging waiting for us. Waiting to be found, waiting to be built, waiting to be renovated, waiting to be cleaned up. Waiting to rescue us. Waiting for the real thing: a grown-up, romantic, reciprocal relationship.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#72. Many people have just enough natural religion to make them immune to the real thing.

Billy Graham

#73. We had played a kid's version of gang fighting called "Civil War," and then later we had got in on the real thing, we fought with chains and we fought barefisted and we fought Socs and we fought other grease gangs. It was a normal childhood.

S.E. Hinton

#74. When a problem seems intractable, it is often a good idea to try to study "toy" versions of it in the hope that as the toys become increasingly larger and more sophisticated, they would metamorphose, in the limit, to the real thing.

Doron Zeilberger

#75. The people who go get an LL album want to hear LL. They don't want to hear LL trying to sound like DMX or whoever else is out there. That's not what they want to hear from me, because if they want to hear that they can go get the real thing.

LL Cool J

#76. The Musicians Hall of Fame is chosen by thousands of your peers. So it's the real thing.

Dick Dale

#77. The real thing that physics tell us about the universe is that it's big, rare event happens all the time - including life - and that doesn't mean it's special.

Lawrence M. Krauss

#78. I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.

Mae West

#79. He was serene, fulfilled, the real thing, the person no one wants to hear about, a happy man.

Paul Theroux

#80. In a career playing heroes, I learned a little about the real thing. A hero stands up-for himself, for herself, but most importantly for others.

Kevin Sorbo

#81. I would like to get married, actually. I've done everything else in my life now except that, but where do I find the real thing? The non-phony? In Los Angeles? I am not so sure.

Aviv Nevo

#82. What I aspire to is to have the viewer look directly at the subject, as if they're looking through a window at the real thing.

Chris Jordan

#83. After 'The Real Thing,' I thought about giving up acting because it's difficult to have a rich life outside your work when you're an actress, a private life that can survive being picked up and put down. That's what I thought, anyway.

Jennifer Ehle

#84. An idea of awakening is not awakening. It's simply an idea. It's not the real thing. The real thing happens in our lives.

Belsebuub

#85. Edam and Gouda are genuine Dutch cheeses, but the real thing is a lot less bland than the varieties most of us experience in the U.K.

David Hewson

#86. The real champions in life are so humble and gracious. They just continue doing what they do without all the posturing. If you've got the real thing, you don't have to flaunt a loud imitation.

Denis Waitley

#87. Texting is a sex toy: pleasurable but a substitute for the real thing. Love has a face. Video chatting is good, but who's comfortable enough to share their "bed hair"? Love isn't about pat answers.

Chila Woychik

#88. If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Jessamyn West

#89. I've seen the photos," he said.
"Photos are never the same as the real thing," I said.

Andrew Pyper

#90. The next couple of jobs will determine, at least from a business point of view, if I'm a guy who's actually the real thing or I'm a guy who's had a nice moment.

Josh Brolin

#91. What you mons making all the racket about? You wake me again and I'll put the voodoo hex on you. All you only call me Tuberculosis behind my back now. You want the real thing?" Sergeant "T. B" Tinkerbelle Bettina Jones.

Ellen Dawn Benefield

#92. A clockwork heart can't replace the real thing.

Dru Pagliassotti

#93. His carefully calculated sincerity is almost entirely indistinguishable from the real thing.

Richard Russo

#94. Man is by nature a lover. Only he has yet to discover the real thing to love. This quest awakens him to the fulfillment of his real Self.

Sri Chinmoy

#95. Bob Dylan's not a hype and a haircut: he's the real thing.

Benmont Tench

#96. I guess you just lacked the courage, the guts to strike out on your own. And so when it all came to an end, you were still living that way, a life you never meant to be anything more than a stopgap, filling in for the real thing.

Banana Yoshimoto

#97. Words are merely utterances: noises that stand for feelings, thoughts, and experience. They are symbols. Signs. Insignias. They are not Truth. They are not the real thing.

Neale Donald Walsch

#98. People don't understand real musicians anymore. Jack White is great - he's the real thing - but he isn't having hits.

Prince

#99. Pornography won't be enough. Because it never is. Sooner or later, all niggers want to touch the real thing. All dogs want to smell and taste the true information. All artists want to make their fantasies reality. And everyone with a cock wants to use it to fall in love.

Peter Sotos

#100. Back in East St. Louis, tennis wasn't the real thing. If you weren't playing baseball, basketball, football, you were kind of on the outside.

Jimmy Connors