Quotes About The Real World

#1. I feel that good fantasy will always be in demand. I think children especially need literature that helps them escape from the real world, which is very scary to them right now.

R.L. Stine

#2. Novels should be judged rigorously. Either a book works or it doesn't. The fact that something is true in the real world should not lend authority to it in fiction.

Akhil Sharma

#3. We need a dream-world in order to discover the features of the real world we think we inhabit.

Paul Karl Feyerabend

#4. If you agree to work for us, half the time you won't know the purpose of your duties ... and when we do explain, we might not be telling the truth. But that's the real world, folks ...

James Alan Gardner

#5. I hate that phrase "the real world." Why is an aircraft factory more real than a university? Is it?

Richard Hugo

#6. Harper: You, the one part of
the real world I wasn't allergic to.

Tony Kushner

#7. I suppose Phil Collins offers something for everybody, and in hipdom that's not cool. But in the real world, there's no shame in that at all.

Phil Collins

#8. They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleasant, intelligent people, but once they get inside the Palace they're riveted to the status quo and they lose track of public opinion in the real world.

Anthony Holden

#9. What is at issue is the conversion of the mind from the twilight of error to the truth, that climb up into the real world which we shall call true philosophy.

Plato

#10. In the real world in which we live, you always have to choose between evils. And in choosing between evils, you have to have moral criteria for how to make those choices.

Alan Dershowitz

#11. And the more she could imagine this island, the less she liked the real world. The more she could imagine the people, the less she liked any real people.

Chuck Palahniuk

#12. Newton's laws of physics can rarely be applied to the real world. There is more to life than cause and effect. Things just aren't that simple

Amy Zhang

#13. Why don't you sparkle?"
-"Because I live in the real world, where vampires burst into flames.

L.J.Smith

#14. He'd spent too long being disappointed by the world - he'd spent so many years pining for something like this, some proof that the real world wasn't the only world, and coping with the overwhelming evidence that it in fact was.

Lev Grossman

#15. Creativeness comes partly out of the unconscious, i.e., is a healthy regression, a temporary turning away from the real world.

Abraham H. Maslow

#16. I also acknowledge that prejudice runs very deep in our society. And, in the real world, discrimination rears its ugly head in the shadows, where it's very difficult to root it out.

Joe Biden

#17. The concept of a general equilibrium has no relevance to the real world (in other words, classical economics is an exercise in futility).

George Soros

#18. What was happening to my life? Was this how it worked in the real world? Was it nothing more than a sandstorm through which one walked with one's eyes closed, every moment obliterated by the next?

Paul Murray

#19. In politics, religion and other areas of culture, people disagree on the worth of competing ideas. There is no equivalent to the scientific method that can determine in a robust way which ideas match the real world, and which ones can be ruled out. So conflicting ideologies persist indefinitely.

Nathan Myhrvold

#20. I was born in D.C. on 8th Street. I know what's up. I know what time it is. I used to hang out in Brooklyn and in the Bronx as a teenager. I know what the real world is like.

Michael Steele

#21. Life at university, with its intellectual and inconclusive discussions at a postgraduate level is on the whole a bad training for the real world. Only men of very strong character surmount this handicap.

Paul Chambers

#22. I don't know if people feel this way, but I think by nature that when you start off as a young pop singer, they assume that you're a bit pampered, prissy, and precious, or that you live in a bubble and not in the real world. For me that's not the case.

Debbie Gibson

#23. There is number of different efforts around the country are to try to redesign the math pathway and the courses that students have to take to make it more applicable to the real world.

Anya Kamenetz

#24. I don't feel beholden to follow the real world at all. The important thing is to know WHY things turned out the way they did. You need to understand the reasons for events, or at least be able to make reasonable guesses about them.

Patrick Rothfuss

#25. People who are in politics to be right all the time would be better off taking up fly-fishing. It's less dangerous. Politics that is not applied in the real world and doesn't address the real challenges and paradoxes and agonies is a hobby.

Neil Kinnock

#26. It's like high school holds two different worlds, revolving around each other and never touching; the haves and the have-nots. I guess it's a good thing. High school is supposed to prepare you for the real world, after all.

Lauren Oliver

#27. In the real world there are many tones, from white at one extreme, through a large number of medium tones to black at the other extreme. To achieve a three-dimensional effect on paper you need just three - white, black and medium gray.

Stan Smith

#28. Every Yom Kippur, Jewish tradition requires a strict spiritual inventory. You aren't supposed to just sit around feeling guilty, but to take action in the real world to set things right.

Naomi Wolf

#29. Most everyone lived twice in those days. They echoed their own steps. They took one step in the real world and one in their space. They saw double, through eyes and monocle displays. They danced through worlds like veils.

Catherynne M Valente

#30. In mind's special processes, a ten-mile run takes far longer than the 60 minutes reported by a grandfather clock. Such time, in fact, hardly exists at all in the real world; it is all out on the trail somewhere, and you only go back to it when you are out there.

John L. Parker Jr.

#31. I think it's sad to me that I had to make a decision to not play the game that I feel like I'm best at and that I love. But if it was just about the game itself, I'd be there in a heartbeat. But that's not how the real world works.

Tiffeny Milbrett

#32. So few people who do porn for so many years make it when matriculating back into the real world. The recidivism rate for porn performers rivals that among career criminals for the same basic reason. It's all they know.

Tyler Knight

#33. One of the compensations for wearing a uniform and earning less money than an equally talented man can make in the real world is the off chance of being killed.

Tom Clancy

#34. If there's nobody left, even if the real world is saved, I will be destroyed ... So please don't die. Please don't go away anymore ... -Lenalee Lee

Katsura Hoshino

#35. Finally has figured out there aren't enough quiet little British films around to protect her from the real world

Brian Andreas

#36. The most important habit is solitude, quiet time. People who enter their day by taking 45 minutes or an hour for themselves - meditation, prayer, inspirational reading, taking a walk - before they go for it in the real world do best.

Ken Blanchard

#37. The real world was far too real to leave neat little hints. It was full of too many things. It wasn't by eliminating the impossible that you got at the truth, however improbable; it was by the much harder process of eliminating the possibilities.

Terry Pratchett

#38. Question: Is the world as it's depicted in words the real world? Words stand between the person and his soul. And

Svetlana Alexievich

#39. I created 'America's Next Top Model' one-hundred percent. I was in my kitchen making tea one morning, and I looked out the window, and the idea popped into my head. I wanted it to be 'American Idol' meets 'Ford Supermodel of the Year' meets 'The Real World.'

Tyra Banks

#40. As with real reading, the ability to comprehend subtlety and complexity comes only with time and a lot of experience. If you don't adequately acquire those skills, moving out into the real world of real people can actually become quite scary.

Jeffrey Kluger

#41. When you start to doubt yourself the real world will eat you alive.

Henry Rollins

#42. I think all geniuses - or the ones thet I've run into - tend to have a faintly tenuous relationship with the real world, because so much is going on on the inside. They may be geniuses but they often need someone to walk around holding a string. They're sort of balloons, bobbing around.

Neil Gaiman

#43. In the real world, he and I could never work. I kissed him just that much harder and pushed all thoughts of why this was wrong to the back of my mind and surrendered to all the reasons it felt right.

Braxton Cole

#44. There are all kinds of worlds in the real world,"she said softly."Most people don't know that.

R.L. Stine

#45. Trust cannot, in the real world, be just a matter of personal choice.

David Amerland

#46. The problem with people who live in a world of speeches and books and theories is they don't know how to fix things in the real world when they go wrong. They feign ignorance, blame others, and make another eloquent speech.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

#47. Transmuting this sandy metaphor, if literature is my sandbox, then the real world is my hourglass - an hourglass that drains grain by grain.

Rabih Alameddine

#48. The real world is far too complex and unpredictable to make something like the idea of humanity controlling its own evolution or engineering itself - well, I wouldn't say impossible but it should be approached with a degree of caution.

Ken MacLeod

#49. The same people who never did their homework in high school are still doing that to this very day out in the real world.

Jules Shear

#50. When I'm working in the real world with real women and we're shopping, we find that fashion seems to end when you get any larger than a size 12. How ridiculous is that?

Tim Gunn

#51. Now we live in fairyland. The only lightly disappointing thing about this land is that it is smaller than the real world has ever been.

Frigyes Karinthy

#52. Asleep vision (dreaming) is perception that is not tied down to anything in the real world; waking perception is something like dreaming with a little more commitment to what's in front of you.

David Eagleman

#53. Your preparation for the real world is not in the answers you've learned, but in the questions you've learned how to ask yourself.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#54. When it comes to morals & principles, a man in the 'real' world has two options; compromise or wait for sometime and then compromise.

Mohammad Rafiq Teli

#55. [D]oes the real world have any more substance than visions and hallucinations when we're having them? At any given moment, what's happening in our minds is all and everything that happens.

Roger Ebert

#56. If you want to send a manuscript, send it to an agent. And send a letter first, asking permission. Launch it into the real world of cold-blooded commercial response, not into the fantasyland of wishful thinking, cowardice and surrender to Resistance.

Steven Pressfield

#57. I think the problem in the Republican Party is really not money. I think they've got lots of it. I think it is theory of the case - why are we here, what is our message, how to connect to the real world.

Bob Woodward

#58. Everything we think we know about the world is a model. Our models do have a strong congruence with the world. Our models fall far short of representing the real world fully.

Donella H. Meadows

#59. Your Imagination is YOU yourself, and the world as your Imagination sees it is the real world.

Neville Goddard

#60. I think for anything to change, in the real world, people have got to change on the inside and that's what we want to start, to get people to think and do more themselves and get involved in whatever they want to get involved with.

Graham Russell

#61. I could leave the world of the book enthralled and inspired, but the real world awaited me, to caress or to kick me; reality was a powerful force that could not be ignored.

Sara Niles

#62. Some philosophers fail to distinguish propositions from judgements; ... But in the real world it is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. The importance of truth is that it adds to interest.

Alfred North Whitehead

#63. We have abolished the real world: what world is left? The apparent world perhaps? . . . But no! with the real world we have also abolished the apparent world.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#64. Some readers are tempted to ignore the challenges of their own lives and to live completely in the alternative reality of books. This can be dangerous and sinful, a rejection of the real world in which God has placed us.

Gene Edward Veith Jr.

#65. This is my favourite thing about being raised in Africa: we don't do labels very well; we don't do this, 'Oh, you're a Democrat; oh, you're a Republican.' Because we live in the real world.

Dambisa Moyo

#66. In the real world, banks hang onto their money for fear of making bad loans, no matter how many bailouts or stimulus packages Washington passes.

Dick Morris

#67. Someone once defined a social problem as a situation in which the real world differs from the theories of intellectuals. To the intelligentsia, it follows, as the night follows the day, that it is the real world that is wrong and which needs to change.

Thomas Sowell

#68. The real world dissolved and I was free to drift in fantasy, living a thousand lives, each one more powerful, more accessible, and more real than my own

Frank Conroy

#69. My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.

Elizabeth Moon

#70. I can play a lot of things, but I haven't mastered any one. I use music really as a form of raw expression; escape from the real world.

Adrian Grenier

#71. I was attracted to law school because I believed it would help me prepare for a career in the real world.

Kenneth Chenault

#72. I think it's the real world. The people we're writing about in professional sports, they're suffering and living and dying and loving and trying to make their way through life just as the brick layers and politicians are.

Red Smith

#73. You stupid, conceited fool! You know nothing! You're like a child, blind to everything but its own empty stomach! Well, grow up, Carl, and join the real world. Until you do, for God's sake leave me be!

Amanda Browning

#74. In the real world, illiquid assets carry a discount.

David Einhorn

#75. On all levels primary, and secondary and undergraduate - mathematics is taught as an isolated subject with few, if any, ties to the real world. To students, mathematics appears to deal almost entirely with things whlch are of no concern at all to man.

Morris Kline

#76. The real struggle is about you: you, a person who has to learn to live in the real world, to inhabit her own skin, to know her own heart, to stop waiting for life to begin.

Caroline Knapp

#77. 'Lost' was filmed in Hawaii, so we stayed there and loved it, so we thought, 'Why would we leave?' It is a bit like growing up in a bubble, but I don't think that's a bad thing, as you will eventually get out and see the real world.

Henry Ian Cusick

#78. Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

Oscar Wilde

#79. In the real world, the tests are all open book.

Jeff Jarvis

#80. One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time his film will somehow bear a closer resemblance to it.

Galen Rowell

#81. But if, once we return to the real world of human choice, we choose to be kind and generous, that is real love.

Gary Chapman

#82. In April 2013, Nathaniel Popper of 'The New York Times' reported on Bitcoin in an article titled, 'Digital Money is Gaining Champions in the Real World'.

Steve Hanke

#83. Often in the real world, it's not the smart that get ahead, but the bold.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#84. The real world. The very notion is absurd. Worlds and everything in them are made real by the stories that inhabit them.

Jonathan Auxier

#85. Then I let the stories live
inside my head, again and again
until the real world fades back
into cricket lullabies
and my own dreams.

Jacqueline Woodson

#86. You don't live in the real world, Z. From what you've told me, I don't think you ever have. You're like me. You live inside this illusion. She motioned to our virtual surroundings.

Ernest Cline

#87. I know what it means to be moved by a book in my body so much that I go looking for its analog in the real world.
[From an interview with Complex magazine, 12/2012]

Junot Diaz

#88. I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.

Iris Johansen

#89. The more time we spend interconnected via a myriad of devices, the less time we have left to develop true friendships in the real world.

Alex Morritt

#90. I have stared long enough at the glowing flat rectangles of computer screens. Let us give more time for doing things in the real world ... plant a plant, walk the dogs, read a real book, go to the opera.

Edward R. Tufte

#91. Love in the real world doesn't usually work out the way stories make us think it should. We don't always get fairy-tale endings. People split up and move on. Just because you love someone doesn't mean you can't love someone else. - Georgina to Brandy

Richelle Mead

#92. You can coddle your child and tell them, 'You're the best no matter what.' But in the end, when they go out into the real world, I think it's pretty tough out there and other children are cruel.

Amy Chua

#93. We imagine all these postapocalyptic, class-stratified, new-world-order techno-futures. But actually the real world, the world we live in, this is the dystopia.

Elan Mastai

#94. I've starred in a lot of science fiction movies and, let me tell you something, climate change is not science fiction, this is a battle in the real world, it is impacting us right now.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#95. I'm floating inside my skin. I could go on floating like this for days. Right now, the real world with its heartbreak and disappointments is just a pulse against the protective membrane we've drunk ourselves into. It's somewhere outside us, waiting. A Great and Terrible Beauty, Page 141, by

Libba Bray

#96. ... I kept trying to run away. And I almost did. But it seems that reality compels you to live properly when you live in the real world.

Kenzaburo Oe

#97. The world is like a reverse casino. In a casino, if you gamble long enough, you're certainly going to lose. But in the real world, where the only thing you're gambling is, say, your time or your embarrassment, then the more stuff you do, the more you give luck a chance to find you.

Scott Adams

#98. What is your view of the world?"

My answer came easily.

"I see the earth as a classroom," I said. "We are all sent here to learn lessons and help each other. But the real world is the spirit world. And that world is a world of light and love.

Laura Lynne Jackson

#99. They might all be drinking laced Kool-Aid in there, but she had a good head on her shoulders. Things like vampires and past lives and immortality just didn't exist in the real world. And Schuyler was a card-carrying member of the real world. She didn't want to check into CrazyTown any time soon.

Melissa De La Cruz

#100. What's important is that you stay true to yourself. Because when you enter the real world, the most valuable thing you can bring is all your you-ness. The world doesn't need any more hot chicks or tough guys or smooth talkers - the world needs more you. And don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

Bo Burnham