Top 100 Some Real Quotes
#1. My favorite kinds of stories are the ones that have these big crazy genre hijinks and then a real honest, meaty, emotional story where we're watching a character grapple with some real things.
Greg Pak
#2. It's odd how much our perception of cities owes to stories and films.We talk about 'Dickensian' London as if it had some real existence beyond the page. Deep down, despite the evidence of our lives, we can't really believe that anything is ever made up.
Joel Lane
#3. Just what should a young man or woman know to be 'in the know'? Is there, in other words, some inside information, some special taboo, some real lowdown on life and existence that most parents and teachers either don't know or won't tell?
Alan Watts
#4. The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is but a picture of the invisible, wherein as in a portrait, things are not truly, but in equivocal shapes, and as they counterfeit some real substance in that invisible fabric.
Thomas Browne
#5. No one wears buckles anymore, and I decided to get him some real boots next winter solstice.Some sexy guy boots. Yeah.
Kim Harrison
#6. 'I, Malvolio' is a very, very funny show, a clown show, but there is Beckettian darkness in the character. Some real darkness, some right close to the edge of despair moments.
Tim Crouch
#7. We've got some real greedy hogs who own no interest in the company they're running, whose sole interest is in whatever it takes to be able to get to the point to fly out on their golden parachute and milk the shareholder and take risks that they shouldn't take.
Joe Jamail
#8. When you're on screen with Mads, there's some real fireworks because your character is his intellectual equal. In a way, maybe your character has an instinct as to who this man really is.
Laurence Fishburne
#9. That night the wind was howling almost like a wolf and there were some real wolves off to the west giving it lessons.
George R R Martin
#10. Our souls are getting older and we're tired of doing things the same old way. We want to find some real solutions.
Echo Bodine
#11. If we start electing presidents on the basis of their sexual purity, some real monsters will get into the White House.
Hunter S. Thompson
#12. I came in with my idea of what a cowboy would wear, but then I met some real cowboys and they said that I rode the horses well, shoed the horses, but no good cowboy would be wearing a pair of Levi's. I had to get a good old pair of Wranglers.
Steve Kanaly
#13. Have you by chance brought some real British tea? Twining's? Or from Jackson's in Piccadilly?
Anthony Burgess
#14. The standard that measures two things is something different from either. You are, in fact, comparing them both with some Real Morality, admitting that there is such a thing as a real Right, independent of what people think, and that some people's ideas get nearer to that real Right than others.
C.S. Lewis
#15. You want to meet a bunch of really friendly people? Go to a Slayer concert. There'll be some real psychos there, but most of those people will take care of each other.
Henry Rollins
#16. Eddy Arnold was a great friend of mine, and through the years, Eddy and I, we did a lot of shows together, and we even worked in some real estate transaction things together, and he helped me there. You know, he was a great real estate man.
Jim Ed Brown
#17. In Modernism, reality used to validate media. In Postmodernism, the media validate reality. If you don't believe this, just think how many times you've described some real event as being 'just like a movie.'
Brad Holland
#18. If he just had the decency to die silently yesterday, not squeal like a girl, I'd be free right now. Probably even doing some real job," she sneered.
Alexandra Engellmann
#19. You're living with a bunch of hot guys, and instead of finding Cole and experiencing some real-life anatomy, you're shacking up with a textbook like a pariah.
Ali Novak
#20. I worked for John Ford, Howard Hawks, Henry Hathaway, Raoul Walsh - I worked for some real good directors.
Richard Farnsworth
#21. Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and when people start getting it confused, that means they need to sit down with some real people.
Chuck D
#22. For the first time you will have some real democracy in the world. What exists now as democracy is not democracy - it is mobocracy.
Osho
#23. Why do I not rather seek some real good - one which I could feel, not one which I could display? These things that draw the eyes of men, before which they halt, which they show to one another in wonder, outwardly glitter, but are worthless within.
Seneca.
#24. There are a lot of movies out there that I would hate to be paid to do, some real demeaning, real woman-denigrating stuff. It is up to women to change their roles. They are going to have to write the stuff and do it. And they will.
Beah Richards
#25. Having lived so long, I can't tell the difference between the two political parties. They both sound like broken records that started skipping after the founding fathers died. Now there were some real men!
Christopher Pike
#26. Business skills, when well applied, can do more than just make money. They can potentially make money and do some real good, which is immensely satisfying. To do that, it's important to think outside the box, take risks, and be an entrepreneur.
Jeffrey Skoll
#27. It takes some real hard running to stay in the same place
Ivan Doig
#28. There are some real positives for Wales. Their back four's not bad, sometimes.
Iain Dowie
#29. It just seemed like Buddhism, especially Tibetan Buddhism - because that's mainly what I've been exposed to - was a real solid organization of teachings to point someone in the right direction. Some real well thought out stuff. But I don't know, like, every last detail about Buddhism.
Adam Yauch
#30. As a comedian, you want people to like you. That's part of why you're there in the first place: You have this unquenchable need to be liked, and then when you divert from that and take a chance at doing something that has moments of fierce unlikeability, you can hit some real low points.
Mike Birbiglia
#31. Are you ready for some real revelation knowledge ... you are god
Benny Hinn
#32. If you listen to Bryson Tiller's record, there's some real music. There's some trap stuff, but if you listen to what's on top of that stuff, that's real music. I look at that and I know it's real. I respect it immensely.
Warryn Campbell
#33. I think expectations might be preceding reality, ... In the long run we've got some real opportunity here, but we've come a long way too quickly. We may need to ratchet it back a little and set a new foundation to grow for the rest of the year, but continuing at this pace is going to be difficult.
Michael Davies
#34. Every bubble has two components: something - some real trend, and a misconception about that trend.
George Soros
#35. I think there is some real therapy in getting your hands in the dirt and working with food.
Jon Tester
#36. You can't have self confidence without some real skills that enable you to be successful.
Erik Weihenmayer
#37. A movie can and should have some real dissonance throughout - rage, heartache, tears, conflict, catharsis and all the other elements Aristotle demanded of a good story - but the chord has to be resolved.
Josh Radnor
#38. Seated at the table, high in her firmament of gin, she looked critically at her brother and his wife, remembering some real or imagined injustice of her youth, for with any proximity the constellations of some families generate among themselves an asperity that nothing can sweeten.
John Cheever
#39. It was about some real belief that God wasn't just going to show up on Sunday and cop out by Tuesday morning.
Hannah Brencher
#40. The character of Matt LeBlanc in 'Episodes' has some real dark sides, and Matt wasn't afraid to explore those.
Jeffrey Klarik
#41. I've encountered a lot of people who sound like critics but very few who have substantive criticisms. There is a lot of skepticism, but it seems to be more a matter of inertia than it is of people having some real reason for thinking something else.
K. Eric Drexler
#42. John and I had a few meetings about what direction the sequel should take. I made some real insane suggestions. True to what you'd expect, he ignored them all and just picked up Halloween II where the original left off.
Donald Pleasence
#43. Criticism ... makes very little dent upon me, unless I think there is some real justification and something should be done.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#44. So it's worth some real up front time to think through the long term value and the defensibility of the business.
Sam Altman
#45. I love putting on an outfit or a costume and just looking at myself in the mirror. Baggy pants or some real funky shoes and a hat and just feeling the character of it. That's fun to me.
Michael Jackson
#46. I want to know about life! I want some real answers ... "
"Five."
"Five?!"
"I thought that was a pretty good answer!
Charles M. Schulz
#47. I'm busier than a busy person. People aren't scared to play this raucous, harsh music over radio speakers, so I think it's the perfect time to get in with some real serious, heavy bands.
Jason Newsted
#48. I hope many of you will be people that question why things are and why we have to do them the way we have always done them. I hope you will take some risks, exert some real leadership on issues, and if you will, dance along the edge of the roof as you continue for life.
Wilma Mankiller
#49. I think the world is ready for some rock 'n' roll. Some real time guys that play their own instruments, write their own songs, and sing the music and have a good time doing it.
Vince Neil
#50. Your boyfriend has some real trust issues," Morpheus baits. "Shut up. He had a rough childhood." "He should be grateful he had one at all.
A.G. Howard
#51. I've got some real diehards down in New Zealand; I look after them and make sure they always get tickets.
Gin Wigmore
#52. And with my last thought I felt some real sympathy for those poor chickens.
Shannon Hale
#53. Why is it that half of the households in America pay zero income tax? We need some real tax reform.
John Cornyn
#54. What shocked me, and what I wasn't prepared for, was just how brutal and how unethical some people can be in the NFL. I mean, there were some great people, but there were some real snakes, too. I was like, 'Holy cow!' But it made me a better person, and it got me ready for other things.
Terry Crews
#55. I just got to feel that whoever I marry has some real regard for me.
Marilyn Monroe
#56. For the past 32 years, I've done nothing outside the entertainment business. I've had some real highs and some real lows, but I love the work so much that I never once thought of quitting.
Meat Loaf
#57. It's very important to keep the emotions grounded, to keep the characters in some real place.
Marc Webb
#58. I decided that it's either, you know, if I want to have children, have a family and - and live a long life, I've got to make some real, real serious changes.
Carnie Wilson
#59. If she liked him so darn much, she should have done something about it. Taken some real action.
Emily Giffin
#60. When I felt rather overcome with my father's opposition, I said as firmly as I could, that I must have this or something else, that I could not live without some real work.
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
#61. Well, we studied a lot of books and things like that. Denzel has a personal experience with it, not himself, that's his business-I won't get into that, but he knows a lot about it as well. So, we took some real life experiences that we both-I've been told that I have OCD.
Antoine Fuqua
#62. Go out and find some real people. Listen to their stories. Don't ask for the main point. Let the story run its course. Like flowing water, it will find its own way, at its own pace. And if you've got patience, you'll learn more than you might imagine. - T
Bernadette Jiwa
#63. Resolved, never to speak evil of anyone, so that it shall tend to his dishonor, more or less, upon no account except for some real good.
Jonathan Edwards
#64. If you don't know who Eleanor Rigby is, you probably were born after 1985 and need to listen to some real music.
George Takei
#65. There's not a lot of room anymore for what I call 'made-up' drama. The drama comes from real places now - marriage takes work and focus, the kid stuff takes patience and commitment. And if you don't grow as people and as a couple, within all of that, then you've got some real drama.
Jeremy Sisto
#67. I don't have 'The Jerry Springer Show'. I just got 'Family Feud', but some of them families, when they lose, man, they have some real conversations with each other back behind that wall, but I've never been involved in any of them.
Steve Harvey
#68. I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.
Jane Austen
#69. There is no such thing as chance or accident; the words merely signify our ignorance of some real and immediate cause.
Adam Clarke
#70. When I get down to my last dime I'll just walk over to skid row."
"There are some real weirdos down there."
"They're everywhere.
Charles Bukowski
#71. A blank space on a form, the missing page, a void, a hole in your knowledge of someone--it's still some real thing. It exists. You don't get to fill it in with whatever you want.
Barbara Kingsolver
#72. I grew up - for a while, the only show I could watch if I hadn't finished my homework was 'The Simpsons,' because I think my parents saw that there was some real-life lessons to take from that.
Tyler Ritter
#73. Stories are better than fiction, so let's hope for some real-life sequels.
Katherine Ramsland
#74. Look here; to gain some real affection from you, or Miss Temple, or any other whom I truly love, I would willingly submit to have the bone of my arm broken, or to let a bull toss me, or to stand behind a kicking horse, and let it dash its hoof at my chest -
Charlotte Bronte
#75. Every book has some real life in it. I was never pursued by an evil twin clone, but everything else in MR. MURDER was pretty much out of my own life.
Dean Koontz
#76. Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#77. I got some real rough dental work done not long ago, and my mouth's still numb right here [points to the left side of his chin]. So it kind of messes with my speech a little bit, so don't y'all think that I took too many cos I haven't.
Roy Jones Jr.
#78. If any American really believes that Obamacare is going to control costs, I've got some real estate in Whitewater, Arkansas I'd like to sell them.
Jonathan Gruber
#80. You have another little drink, and I'll have another little drink, and maybe we can work up some real family feeling here.
Irving Ravetch
#81. All of us from 'The Waltons' still love each other. I think we're closer than some real families.
Michael Learned
#82. If they ever envision Goodness as a thing that exists outside them, some real thing they've been called to participate in by their actions, well then, we're headed right back toward The Virtues.
Geoffrey Wood
#83. Everybody needs some real rock in their lives ... whether it's bands like ourselves, Aerosmith or Stones ... or new bands like Five Finger Death Punch, Avenged Sevenfold ... it's out there.
Nikki Sixx
#84. I was simply the target of their discontent and in some real sense they blamed me for not being able to rouse them out of a failed past; what they didn't consider was that I had my troubles too - most of them caused by simply living with them.
Charles Bukowski
#85. No one ever wrote a story yet without some real emotional drive behind it
and I have not that drive except where violations of the natural order ... defiances and evasions of time, space, and cosmic law ... are concerned.
H.P. Lovecraft
#86. I'm not limited by genre and it doesn't really matter what the genre is as long as the film is going to be new and have some real artistic integrity.
Josh Hartnett
#87. I reflect back 35 years ago, and look how far we have come in America with our environmental policy to improve the conditions of our air and water, and we have had some real successes.
Jay Inslee
#88. There's some real dark days where you just feel like the story is falling apart in every one. Just keep moving forward, even when you are bluffing, even when you don't quite know what is going to happen next.
Dan Scanlon
#89. I guess I'm afraid of not being like other people. No, that's not true. I'm not afraid of not being like other people. I'm afraid I won't find anybody who doesn't mind me not being like other people. I'm not ambitious for money or power. I want to find some real way to live.
Jeanette Winterson
#90. Once you have the psychedelic tool in hand then some real choices have to be made.
Terence McKenna
#91. It's a funny thing about Hollywood. Once you've been out here awhile, it's hard to go someplace else, and it gets harder the longer you stay here. Takes some real propulsion to make you leave.
Pamela Moore
#92. Let's start fresh with Russia on some real help and some real reform.
Jeffrey Sachs
#93. I'm just skin covering coffee and some real nervous teeth.
Bill Hicks
#94. I think we will begin to see some real efforts made to do things like protecting Social Security and Medicare.
John Dingell
#95. Enthusiasm is big. When I write a book, it's a three-year commitment. Toward the end, I'm writing seven days a week, and it's exhausting but thrilling. The only hope is to have some real enthusiasm for the book ... Above all, you need some strong emotional or personal connection to your material.
Nathaniel Philbrick
#97. Chrissie Hynde is the blueprint for any teenage pop star wannabe looking to have some real cred.
Shawn Amos
#98. When a person realizes he has been deeply heard, his eyes moisten. I think in some real sense he is weeping for joy. It is as though he were saying, Thank God, somebody heard me. Someone knows what it's like to be me
Carl R. Rogers
#99. We need to make some real fundamental change from the Constitution down in this country.
Al Sharpton
#100. You've got to remember that men are men and women are women. And although a lot of similarities, there are some real differences.
Helen Fisher
