Top 100 Real Thing Quotes
#1. So many things
nay every real thing
is good if only it will be humble and ordinate.
C.S. Lewis
#2. I've heard 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' read, and I tell you Mrs. Stowe's pen hasn't begun to paint what slavery is as I have seen it at the far South. I've seen de real thing, and I don't want to see it on no stage or in no theater.
Harriet Tubman
#3. Well, the ancients might not have been very heroic. Most of them were probably like Mother, crouched somewhere trying to work out how to make fake jawbone jewelry that would look like the real thing.
Barbara Kingsolver
#4. In an industry where people merely *play* heroes, he was the real thing.
Gary Fishgall
#5. Life had become a reproduction: it was not the real thing.
Ray Davies
#6. What is the use of merely listening to lectures? The real thing is practice.
Ramakrishna
#7. It's not like I turn off Marilyn Manson and I'm an everyday guy who goes and has another job and doesn't think about any of this stuff. Marilyn Manson is the most real thing that can come from me.
Marilyn Manson
#8. 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
#9. The real thing is that sweet joy you feel when you're in the midst of it.
Jan Phillips
#10. You can always spot the real thing, that affection; why does it always come from the wrong person?
Jess Walter
#11. As long as death exists, man will continue to exist only as a shadow, not a real thing!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#12. If that moment had been a real thing, it would've been a butterfly, flapping and fluttering toward the sun.
Maggie Stiefvater
#13. You," he said, "are a terribly real thing in a terribly false world, and that, I believe, is why you are in so much pain.
Emilie Autumn
#14. 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
#15. Is passion what we are? Is that what we are in pictures? Is what we are in pictures almost real? Maybe it's become the most real thing.
Richard Prince
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. If a product costs $10,000 or $20,000 it has limited use. This is what the first computers cost! Only when almost everyone is able to afford it will it be a real thing.
Mark Zuckerberg
#19. Falling in love is like eating mushrooms, you never know if it's the real thing until it's too late.
Bill Ballance
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. The first real thing I heard was Three O'Clock Blues by B.B. King. That's where it all began for me.
Robin Trower
#23. 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
#24. I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting.
Antonia Fraser
#25. It's not a real place, not a real thing. Mom made up the Gray Space, the place of anti-art, antifeeling, the cold dark place that felt like death. It was just her zany way of describing the place she went when she felt most depressed, when making music at all became impossible.
It isn't real.
Kate Ellison
#26. It took the real thing to show you the size of your delusions.
Ann Brashares
#27. I had considered envying men before
I pretend to envy things like their higher incidence of ungrounded confidence and monomania
but I don't really envy those things, and I'm not sure I even believe in them
but this, the covert-baby-having thing, was the first real thing.
Rivka Galchen
#28. What a strange mind, to cover the real thing with an imitation of something real.
Frances Mayes
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. They swapped the real thing for an image of the real thing.
Bob Goff
#35. 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
#36. I was doing science," Giddon said. "He threw a bean."
"I was testing the impact of a bean upon water," Bann said.
"That's not even a real thing."
"Perhaps I'll test the impact of a bean upon your beautiful white shirt.
Kristin Cashore
#37. I didn't want to see George Hamilton playing me, I wanted the real thing.
Robert Evans
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. If we split practice from the real thing, neither one of them will be very real.
Stephen Nachmanovitch
#41. 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
#42. The preference most of them had for seeing through their camera, rather than looking at the real thing, and so on.
Alice Munro
#44. That in the soul which is called the mind is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing.
Aristotle.
#45. A plan is a real thing, and things projected are experienced. A plan once made and visualized becomes reality along with other realities - never to be destroyed but easily to be attacked.
John Steinbeck
#46. All wishes are best granted metaphorically. Metaphors are much easier to see than the real thing.
Rachael McKay
#47. It's a real thing, glory. But it pales in comparison to what we sacrifice for it.
Erika Johansen
#48. The illusion of knowledge and freedom is not the same as the real thing.
Aimee Carter
#49. 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
#50. I've survived broken hearts. You will, too. They're all worth it when you find the real thing. The right one.
M. Leighton
#51. Love is not only the expression of emotion or the expression of sentiment, it is a real thing. It is the absolute reality, which influences all creation.
Debasish Mridha
#52. Funny how you can live your whole life waiting and not know it ... Waiting for your real life to begin. Maybe the most real thing the end. To realize when it's too late. I know now that I loved him more than anything on earth or off of it.
Peter Heller
#53. 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
#54. Food for thought is no substitute for the real thing.
Walt Kelly
#55. 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
#56. ...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
#57. I think everyone's pretty much the same underneath. The collective unconscious is a real thing. There's only a few emotions, and we all have them. There's, like, seven emotions. So personal is universal. Everyone experiences confusion, joy and pain, just in different forms.
Juliana Hatfield
#58. Love felt and returned, love which our bodies exact and our hearts have transfigured, love which is the most real thing that we shall ever meet, reappeared now as the world's enemy, and she must stifle it.
E. M. Forster
#59. They're just actors. I much prefer the real thing!
Alan Clark
#60. 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
#61. No point in wasting time with false vanity when you possess the real thing.
Alan Bradley
#62. 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
#63. No matter how great we get with digital formats of instrumentation, nothing really quite duplicates the real thing.
Michael Bolton
#64. 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
#65. Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.
John Berger
#66. A thought-form held in thinking substance is a reality; it is a real thing, whether it has yet become visible to mortal eye or not.
Wallace D. Wattles
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. (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
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. In middle age, I practiced feeling old, but the real thing has been a rude surprise.
Mason Cooley
#73. More like the real thing,' said the lord Digory softly.
C.S. Lewis
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. Knock-offs may look good, but they never last as long as the real thing.
N.M. Silber
#77. I have a real thing for Mexican directors. And I love Guillermo del Toro and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu.
Emma Watson
#78. [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
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. I still feel lucky whenever I hear a director say, "Action!" Because then I think, "Whoa, I'm really in the movies. This is a real thing happening." I've never not been enthralled by that. I still love it. I still love hearing it, and I feel really lucky all the time.
Fred Armisen
#82. 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
#83. Many people have just enough natural religion to make them immune to the real thing.
Billy Graham
#84. 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
#85. 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
#86. There's a truth to the fact that it's hard to be real. It's easy to be indulgent. It's easy to be bubble gum, but it's hard to find a real thing that really makes your soul tick. It's painful and honest. It can be more challenging than just a sad song.
Mat Kearney
#87. 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
#88. The Musicians Hall of Fame is chosen by thousands of your peers. So it's the real thing.
Dick Dale
#89. 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
#90. I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.
Mae West
#91. Costis followed, telling himself that it wasn't true that he and the king and even the stone under their feet were nothing but tissue, transparently thin, and that for a moment, the only real thing in the universe had been there on the parapet with the king.
Megan Whalen Turner
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. He was serene, fulfilled, the real thing, the person no one wants to hear about, a happy man.
Paul Theroux
#98. Stock prices aren't real things. They're just froth on a wave. The wave is the only real thing, which investors forget when they're watching the ticket slither by.
Jane Bryant Quinn
#99. Language as a real thing is not imitation either of sounds or colors or emotions it is an intellectual recreation and there is nopossible doubt about it and it is going to go on being that as long as humanity is anything.
Gertrude Stein
#100. 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
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