Top 100 Really There Quotes
#1. Any fear is an illusion. You think something is standing in your way, but nothing is really there. What is there is an opportunity to do your best and gain some success.
Michael Jordan
#2. I started really young, like 12 or 13, and then I started doing school plays. We had a really good drama department, so the kind of drama-geek stigma wasn't really there in my high school.
Matt Damon
#3. Sometimes it takes being at your lowest point to see who's really there for you. And they're all standing right beside me now. The
A. Zavarelli
#4. Grandmother was like an opal. You could never be sure which colors were really there and which were just tricks of the light.
Michelle Moran
#5. Darkness isn't bad. It's only darkness." Those fingers relaxed. "All it means is you don't see the world as they do. You see what's really there. They see what they wish was there.
Leah Raeder
#6. And really, there is nothing more innocent and cruel than a child.
Jet Black
#7. Some people remember the sixties better than others do. Some weren't even there, some who were there were not really there, and some who were not really there were "really there".
Tom Hays
#8. He cannot "tempt" to virtue as we do to vice. He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand; and if only the will to walk is really there He is pleased even with their stumbles.
C.S. Lewis
#9. You try so hard to shield me, and protect me, and really, there is no need, you try so hard to hide what you want, how you feel, and of course you can't.
Susan Hill
#10. Mostly, I could tell, I made him feel uncomfortable. He didn't understand me, and he was sort of holding it against me. I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everybody else. But really there wasn't much point, and I gave up the idea out of laziness.
Albert Camus
#11. When the horror recedes and the world resumes its normal shape, you cannot forget it. You have seen what is really there, the empty horror that exists when the consoling illusion of our mundane experience is stripped away, so you can never respond to the world in quite the same way again.
Karen Armstrong
#12. My favorite on screen moments are when you are really there and you know you're creating something. That's so exciting ... it's why you come to work.
Jason Dohring
#13. When we're awake, we see what we need to see. When we're asleep, we see what is really there.
Jodi Picoult
#14. My mother had never openly protested my relationship with Sydney. Really, there'd been no chance. I'd simply shown up at Court with a bride in tow, and no one had been able to put asunder those whom the state of Nevada had brought together.
Richelle Mead
#15. My problems seemed so glamorous to other people, and everyone just thought I was so lucky. But then, I was lucky because my family was really there for me. I think I just felt like I really wanted to hold on to who I was as a person, and try to have as much of a normal life as I could.
Winona Ryder
#16. In a play, you only get one chance, and you have to get it perfect. In a film, you can change and fix it whatever way you want, so really, there's a pretty big difference.
Kara Hayward
#17. Really, there's only one way of changing the world, and that's by changing yourself.
A.G. Roemmers
#18. Oh, of course, naturally, God is impossible. That is the first proof that he exists. Nothing exists as we see it. Nothing we see is really there, as we think we are seeing it. Our eyes are liars. Everything that seems real, is merely part of the illusion.
Gregory David Roberts
#19. Get beyond his eyes and his smile and the sheen of his hair
Look at what's really there.
Wendelin Van Draanen
#20. Really, really there is no dying for us. Remember?
Art Hochberg
#21. I guess I've just gotten to the point where I don't want to be bored by the characters that I play, and I don't want to feel like I'm having to make something more interesting or I'm having to force something that's not really there on the page.
Mary Elizabeth Winstead
#22. Personally, I think, so what? Money's just a thing and things change. That's what I've found. One minute something's really there, right next to you, and you can cuddle up to it. The next it just melts away, like a Hershey's kiss.
Frank Cottrell Boyce
#23. Jesus got me through the slums without getting murdered. I just walked with him as though he were really there and not a spirit just floating around.
Larry Norman
#24. I knew I was really there, because I was the thing his arms encircled, the thing his love defined.
Carolyn Ives Gilman
#25. More my son, I found myself thinking. You were never really there for him. Not emotionally. You were just the absence he was always striving to impress.
Jojo Moyes
#26. I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe.
Gertrude Stein
#27. And I want to press my palm against his chest to feel it beat, to prove he's really there.
But we cannot touch.
Stephanie Perkins
#28. We can believe and aver that there's a universe out there even if all living creatures were nonexistent, but this idea is merely a thought and a thought requires a thinking organism. Without any organism, what if anything is really there?
Robert Lanza
#29. I loved getting to do Promised Land with him. I mean, he's really there for you. We did one very emotional scene in the church. He's just a wonderful acting partner. You feel very safe with him.
Delta Burke
#30. Scout - oblivious to our jokes at her expense - pushed forward. "I don't understand why you're arguing with me. You know you have no chance."
Michael clutched at his chest dramatically. "You're killing me, Scout. Really. There's chest pain - a tightness." He faked a groan.
Chloe Neill
#31. There was once an invisible man who had grown tired of being unseen. It was not that he was actually invisible. It was that people had become used to not seeing him.
And if no one sees you, are you really there at all?
Patrick Ness
#32. Projection into the future does not create security because the future is not really there. It's a fluid mirage. The only security is merging with The Field, right now.
Penney Peirce
#33. Ever since 1980, sci-fi has generally been more Bladerunner than Star Wars. People talk about Star Wars being the most influential movie of all time and creating the blockbuster along with Jaws and that sort of thing, but really there's not been a space opera that anyone can go and see.
Mark Millar
#34. Just concentrate on being in the moment", he said. "Don't read into things. See what's really there ok?
Jennifer Brown
#35. For really there is nothing like wings for getting you into trouble. But, on the other hand, if you are in trouble, there is nothing like wings for getting you out of it.
E. Nesbit
#36. I make 2+2=5, and I get to keep the remaining 1 that's not really there. I truly am a Master of the Universe. I don't just do "God's work," as our CEO once put it, it's more like I've actually become a god myself.
A.D. Aliwat
#37. I think documentary filmmaking is a braver way to make films because it's real, and you're really there.
Jamie Bell
#38. The best reason to pray is that God is really there. In praying our unbelief starts to melt. God moves smack into the middle of even an ordinary day.
Emily Giffin
#39. Writing is a solitary business. It takes over your life. In some sense, a writer has no life of his own. Even when he's there, he's not really there.
Paul Auster
#40. The fictional eye sees in, through, and around what is really there.
Eudora Welty
#41. I was suddenly very aware of the fact it was me standing up in that tunnel with the wind over my face. Not caring if I saw downtown. Not even thinking about it. Because I was standing in the tunnel. And I was really there. And that was enough to make me feel infinite.
Stephen Chbosky
#42. I think that Vietnam, many of us who served in Vietnam thought that was very wasteful, and to what end? To what end? What were we really there for? What were we really fighting for?
Richard Armitage
#43. There are all kinds of ways that people present their films, but that's kind of a good feeling, if you can make it seem like the characters are really there.
Gus Van Sant
#44. I don't hold onto anything, because it's a waste of energy to do so, really. There's nothing that I can do about the way people want to write about me. I just try and concentrate on my work and do that as well as I can.
PJ Harvey
#45. Whenever I say I made a record in the garage, people just assume that I have, like, a Lear jet parked in there or something. But really there's old luggage, a couple of bikes. It's big enough to put one minivan in. That's it. No dartboard. I'm so not macho.
Dave Grohl
#46. Nigeria is like everywhere, really: there are some beautiful places that have been invested in and others that haven't been.
Tinie Tempah
#47. How often do we do that, he wondered
look at someone and fail to see what's really there?
Sue Monk Kidd
#48. Christianity believes that God has created an external world that is really there; and because He is a reasonable God, one can expect to be able to find the order of the universe by reason.
Francis Schaeffer
#49. I don't look at myself on the outside. Sometimes you feel like you're not really there and need one more [take], because I feel like something is coming out. I don't really know what but I need to get it out.
Noomi Rapace
#50. My thinking is, government is really there to do the things that people absolutely can't do for themselves. And that's mostly involved with the things that might kill you. And what might kill me? The environment and terrorism.
Bill Maher
#51. I'm sometimes accused of being hostile to mutual funds. That's not fair, really. There is a place for them. Still, I am hostile to one thing, which is trying to use funds to time your way in and out of the market. That's a recipe for very bad results.
Kenneth Fisher
#52. Really, there was only one problem with Mr. Davis, as far as Gregory was concerned; He taught math.
Greg Pincus
#53. I'm not as trusting as people think I am. Sure, I see the best in people, but that doesn't mean it's really there.
Charles De Lint
#54. Each thing is valid and really there. It is through a field of such valid objects that I must pick my way, every day and in every way. I put a lot of effort into making such distinctions. I need to make them. I need to be very clear, in my own mind.
Margaret Atwood
#55. I'm having to learn to get the balance right, because if you want a full-time career, and you also want to be a mother who is there for your child, then you have to make sure that when you do spend time together, you're really there for them.
Trinny Woodall
#56. Several do math on their fingers. Then they raise their hands as one. "Can we see it?" "No." "Not even open the first door?" "No." "Have you seen it?" "I have not." "So how do you know it's really there?" "You have to believe the story." "How much is it worth, Monsieur? Could
Anthony Doerr
#57. He knew that her eyes were made up of dozens of shades of brown, with that one enchanting circle of green constantly daring him to take a closer look, to see if it was really there or just a figment of his imagination.
Julia Quinn
#58. I've been in scenarios as an actor where you have to manufacture an emotion that's not really there, but it wasn't hard with Halle because she's a great person and very beautiful, so it ain't a tough job at the end of the day.
Benjamin Bratt
#59. The definition of a philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black hat, which isn't really there. And the definition of a theologian is he's somebody who finds it.
Michael Ruse
#60. Sometimes you think you know more than you really do - people, events, things that are true and things that are not. Sometimes you think you know yourself. But then, surprise, it is someone else who shows you what is really there, like the truth a photograph shows.
Patricia MacLachlan
#61. He said that doubt provided contour to faith, like shading in a drawing, that it allowed you to see what was really there. At the time we were learning how to sketch in art class, I felt like it was the one thing he said that I actually understood.
Anna Jarzab
#62. Really, there is no infidelity, nowadays, so great as that which prays, and keeps the Sabbath, and rebuilds the churches. The sealer of the South Pacific preaches a truer doctrine.
Henry David Thoreau
#63. Love is nature's LSD. You're going to see things that aren't really there.
Dov Davidoff
#64. Sherlock shrugged. "I don't understand the need for power, really. There are more important pursuits."
"Only those who have never felt powerless can afford to think like you.
Heather W. Petty
#65. Ed is very sexy because his emotions are really there - not forced.
Valerie Bertinelli
#66. There are no interruptions, really - there are simply mismanaged occurrences.
David Allen
#67. Let sanguine healthy-mindedness do its best with its strange power of living in the moment and ignoring and forgetting, still the evil background is really there to be thought of, and the skull will grin in at the banquet.
William James
#68. Many people have told me that my books read like novels. Perhaps this is because, when I write, I feel I am really there, so strong is my feeling for my subject. On occasion, I have been so moved by the events I have been describing that I have felt like crying.
Alison Weir
#69. You really can't go home again. Sometimes, that's a good thing. Sometimes, when you try, you find out that home isn't really there anymore ... but that it wasn't only in your head before. Home actually existed. Home wasn't just a dream. Sometimes, that's the best thing of all.
Mira Grant
#70. If you are able to explain suffering, a man once told him, you weren't really there.
Barry Hannah
#71. This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.
Meryl Streep
#72. The sky was a rich, mindless, never-ending blue, like a promise of some ridiculous glory that wasn't really there.
Donna Tartt
#73. People really want to set up these rivalries because there's a lot of vampire books out there. People want to believe we're all fierce rivals, and really there's just so much camaraderie with authors. Everyone kind of boosts each other.
Richelle Mead
#74. I just wanna throw my phone away and find out who is really there for me
Katy Perry
#75. That's how to cultivate obsession even if you're only trying for reassurance. Document it. Keep touching it. Make sure it's really there.
Charlotte Shane
#76. People trust their eyes above all else - but most people see what they wish to see, or what they believe they should see; not what is really there
Zoe Marriott
#77. He presented to the world the facade of a certain kind of man who wasn't really there.
Amy Schumer
#78. As always he behaved as if he were an abstraction, not really there, a machine without a soul.
Doris Lessing
#79. He paused as if waiting for her to say something, but all she could do was stare at him and wonder why he couldn't see that she was a ghost and not really there at all.
Karen White
#80. There may be a long list of things to do, but really, there is just one thing on the list at any time. If you think of it like that, the whole world looks different and you can stay quite calm. Maybe everything will get done eventually and maybe not. You can always have hope.
Zoketsu Norman Fischer
#81. There are moments that you suffer a lot, moments you won't photograph. There are some people you like better than others. But you give, you receive, you cherish, you are there. When you are really there, you know when you see the picture later what you are seeing.
Sebastiao Salgado
#82. I grew up in northern New Jersey - the banlieue of New York - and I now live in Brooklyn. I am separated from my parents by about 50 miles, but really there is almost no distance between us. I speak to them nearly every day.
Jonathan Ames
#83. Varro to Brian: You always think there has to be some grand gesture, but really, there doesn't even have to be words. Just knowing something should be all the truth you need.
Mary Calmes
#84. And in the end, really, there's nothing much to say about a true war story, except maybe Oh.
Tim O'Brien
#85. By in large in this country the issue of gay rights and equality should be past the point of debate. Really, there should be no debate anymore.
Scott Fujita
#86. She looked lonely through the lens of my telescope, like one of those faraway stars, still visible to our eyes but no longer really there.
Karen Thompson Walker
#87. One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation.
Jessye Norman
#88. I want to hold my breath for as long as it takes.
I want to stop breathing just long enough to know what it would be like to be totally sitll.
Like being a cough away from death.
Not really there- not really here.
Jaye Murray
#89. If you're there, Eva ... if you're really there ... " His fingers tightened around our shoulder, digging into our skin. "I love you, too. Always"
Then he pushed us away.
Kat Zhang
#90. People have become less discriminating listeners, which is tragic, really. There's a lot of emperor's new clothes out there, whether they're female or male solo acts. That bothers me. It's hard to break through, and it's like climbing Mount Everest if you actually do.
Paula Cole
#91. She haunted the makeup department until she was bored, then took a look around home furnishings. She wasn't ever going to get another dining room table, but really, there wasn't any harm in lookng ...
Neil Gaiman
#92. I have found a paper of mine among some others in which I call architecture 'petrified music.' Really there is something in this; the tone of mind produced by architecture approaches the effect of music.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#93. God, come down, if you're really there -
Well, you're the one who claims to care!
Morrissey
#94. Unfortunately, some people go to a restaurant, and they aren't really there to enjoy themselves. They're there because they think they deserve to be there or because they can just afford it.
Joe Dinicol
#95. WHEN YOU'RE READING YOU SHOULD PRETEND YOU'RE REALLY THERE BECAUSE IT WILL MAKE THE BOOK MOR INTERESTING!
Mary Downing Hahn
#96. At street corners, where walls join, I thought I could see some familiar features, like outlines of human faces, the shadows of cheekbones and eyebrows. They are really there, caught in stone for all time, along with the marks left by earthquakes, winters and scourges wrought by men.
Ismail Kadare
#97. The great amount of fun that I have is I can cast dramatic actors to play comedic roles, and I can cast comedic actors to play dramatic roles because, really, there's no such thing. There's just actors.
Noah Hawley
#98. How do you complete a painting, really? There are paintings by so many different artists that are interesting precisely because they haven't really been completed.
Peter Doig
#99. Imagination need not stand as an obstacle to clear-sighted perception; on the contrary, it can be a prerequisite for recognition of the less obvious aspects of what is really there.
John Armstrong
#100. I think when you are young, you are hoping that this person will be the right one. The one you are going to be in love with forever, but sometimes you want that so much, you create something that isn't really there.
Johnny Depp
