Top 100 With Real Quotes
#1. The medical operations are so challenging because they're so technical, as well. I assumed before we started that we would do the classic thing, when it comes to the operations, that we would do all of these inserts with real doctors.
Clive Owen
#2. Are you guys seriously messing around with real weapons?" she exclaimed. "It's like you want Darwin Awards!"
Tom flushed, and set his gun back on its hook. "It's not like we were going to start a dynastic war or something."
"Yeah," Vik said guiltily, returning his own weapon.
S.J. Kincaid
#3. I'm a bitter, sad, sour young man who makes a career out of hastling people with real careers.
Steve Martin
#4. Writing with voice is writing into which someone has breathed. It has that fluency, rhythm, and liveliness that exist naturally in the speech of most people when they are enjoying a conversation ... Writing with real voice has the power to make you pay attention and understand
the words go deep.
Peter Elbow
#5. Once you decide not to worry about that stuff anymore, dating and relationships and love and all that, it's like you're free to get on with real life.
David Nicholls
#6. With real wages still falling for many, people are increasingly being forced to use their credit cards, their dwindling savings, or take out payday or doorstep loans if they need to buy anything beyond the most everyday of items.
Frances O'Grady
#7. We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are.
Blaise Pascal
#8. It's always the thing when you're shooting out and about with real people and you could get a couple of bogeys like sticking their face in front of the camera, like 'Hey!'
Joel Kinnaman
#9. The first thing we learn is that worship has to do with real life. It is not a mythical interlude in a week of reality. Worship has to do with adultery and hunger and racial conflict.
John Piper
#10. We are real black characters with real character, not the stars of American racist spectacle. Blackness is not probable cause.
Kiese Laymon
#11. The value for me being in a mainline tradition is history and memory, which is not just Christian tradition but denominational tradition, and characters, you know, with real distinct flavors of ways to be Christian.
Barbara Brown Taylor
#12. I have been grappling for years with the question of whether experiencing difficulty dealing with real life is what drives people to become actors.
Naseeruddin Shah
#13. We never needed best friend gear because I guess with real friends you don't have to make it official. It just is.
Mindy Kaling
#14. I've enjoyed my time in the game, whether it be managing Luton in the top flight, taking Spurs to Wembley or, as director of football, pinpointing players such as Jermain Defoe, Paul Robinson and Robbie Keane with real sell-on value.
David Pleat
#15. Posthumous reputations have little to do with real lives.
Felix Dennis
#16. Our culture is obsessed with real events because we experience hardly any,
David Shields
#17. Republicans are listening to America's job creators and working to address their concerns with real solutions.
Peter Roskam
#18. The dust made Lily cough. She buried her face in the crook of her arm to muffle the noise. But behind all that wood, they probably could play the 1812 Overture with real cannons and nobody would hear them.
Ellie McDonald
#19. I like movies that are about real people in real time with real problems.
Josh Radnor
#20. We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. Therefore, everyone sees the world in different views. Somehow, if we could remove those glasses, we can see the world with real colors. Name of the most difficult to remove glass is 'there are permanent things of mine.
Muditha Champika
#21. With real greatness, there's a jolt at the end of the wire. It doesn't matter how often you grab hold of the line, or how many people have grabbed hold of it before you. It's the same line. Fallen from a higher life. It still carries some of the same shock.
Donna Tartt
#22. Anyway, nobody bothers with real beginnings anymore. We stopped making up stories about the creation of the world ages ago.
Catherynne M Valente
#23. Looking at virtual reality through computer screens, video game screens, and above all television screens is a denial of personality development. It's a denial of socialization, of expansion of vocabulary, of interaction with real human beings.
Ralph Nader
#24. Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.
Vanessa Redgrave
#25. So far we still don't know whether angels are ethereal beings of light without substance or if they take a solid human form with real wings which actually enable them to fly.
Malcolm Godwin
#26. [As] authorities "over" us are removed, as we wobble out on our own, the question of whether to be or not to be arises with real relevance for the first time, since the burden of being is felt most fully by the self-determining self.
William H Gass
#27. When you're way too real, fake people be like: You're a trip. I want somebody with real game (lies).
T.F. Hodge
#28. When I first heard about Beverly Hills Chihuahua, I thought, no. This, this is ridiculous. And then you read the script and you close the script and you go, "They aren't going to be able to do that with real dogs. How are they going to do that?" You're going to see the strings. But they did.
George Lopez
#29. Entrepreneurs go through real problems and come up with real solutions. It's not fake. You can do all the right things and still lose. You can do all the wrong things and still will.
Ben Huh
#30. Then if your movie clicks with real audiences, you'll be sucked into some sort of Hollywood orbit. It's a devil of a place where the only religion that really counts is box office.
Yahoo Serious
#31. People with real power never fear of losing it. People with control think of little else.
Joss Whedon
#32. The best learning happens in real life with real problems and real people and not in classrooms.
Charles Handy
#33. As the industry has matured, real estate has become a very accepted investment. Institutions have used core investments to get comfortable with real estate as an asset class, and now that they're comfortable they're moving up the risk spectrum.
Richard Price
#34. The United States need to put internet processes, policies, and procedures in place with real laws that forbid going beyond the borders of what's reasonable to ensure that the only time that we and other countries around the world exercise these authorities are when it is absolutely necessary.
Edward Snowden
#35. Sophia, with real nobility of character, then asked Papa to explain something she had read in Sir John Malcolm's History of Persia, which the Vicar, whose only personal extravagance was his purchase of books, had lately added to his library.
Georgette Heyer
#36. It was clearly a lot more difficult in the field than in the office, where you could keep your distance and maintain a calculated composure. Being faced with real people was a far tougher call on one's judgement.
Sara Sheridan
#37. Talented men are not threatened by talented women. They welcome them. And same way with real men.
Amy Poehler
#38. When you're with real people, you don't have to be with virtual people.
Connor Franta
#39. Tad Christopher in the Tango kitchen with real whipped cream?" "Sounds like Gay Clue, doesn't it?
Z.A. Maxfield
#40. Part of the fun of writing, touring, teaching, is engaging with real people about all of it: what to do now, how to build a movement, of approaches to teaching, of parenting - it's exciting to be in that dialogue.
Bill Ayers
#41. My music is genuine, and I'm talking about stuff that no one else - no one my age, anyway, in the game - is talking about. Nobody. I'm the only one really stating facts and speaking with real street knowledge.
Shy Glizzy
#42. It was a wonderful life. To have a stage play right in this room, with real people acting real parts.
Jan Karon
#43. When donors visited the Black Panther Party, they came and saw our real programs, a real clinic, with real doctors and medics, giving service to people.
Bobby Seale
#44. I always look at films as real stories with real people in real situations. That's why I struggle with the whole notion of calling someone the 'good guy' or the 'bad guy', because I think we all have potential to do good things and all have the potential to do bad things.
Guy Pearce
#45. I like to make pies. That's kind of my new obsession - peach, blueberry, apple, strawberry. I make a really good pumpkin pie with real pumpkin.
Morgan Saylor
#46. You know the trouble with real life? There's no danger music.
Jim Carrey
#47. 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
#48. I like live audiences, with real people - virtual reality is no substitute.
Hillary Clinton
#49. An administrator in a bureaucratic world is a man who can feel big by merging his non-entity in an abstraction. A real person in touch with real things inspires terror in him.
Marshall McLuhan
#50. With real relationship within, you are as delicateness really listening.
John De Ruiter
#51. 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
#52. I became hooked on 'In Treatment,' which was so finely written and performed. Such a simple idea, and yet it delved into very complex territory with real grace and humanity.
Hattie Morahan
#53. I think traditional media is vitally important, I think there are a lot of benefits to working in traditional media, and I enjoy doing working with real paint when I get the chance.
Julie Dillon
#54. Cartoons for girls don't have to be a puddle of smooshy, cutesy-wootsy, goody-two-shoeness. Girls like stories with real conflict; girls are smart enough to understand complex plots; girls aren't as easily frightened as everyone seems to think.
Lauren Faust
#55. But I really believe that when you give people authentic identity, which is what Facebook does, and you can be your real self and connect with real people online, things will change.
Sheryl Sandberg
#56. When dragged into prominence by half poets, the result is not poetry, nor till the poets among us can be "literalists of the imagination"
above insolence and triviality and can present for inspection, "imaginary gardens with real toads in them," shall we have it.
Marianne Moore
#57. The most powerful lessons occur where studies intersect with real life.
Oliver DeMille
#58. I've always dreamed to win the Champions League with Real Madrid and we are only one step away to win it
Cristiano Ronaldo
#59. Daily life is better when it involves interactions with real people who have a personal investment in their labour, like shopkeepers, than it is with someone 'just doing my job' or the infernal self-checkout machine.
Julian Baggini
#60. Working with real wolves has been exhilarating. They're so amazing. They're these beautiful, brilliant animals and they're great to work with.
Kelly Overton
#61. This is the trouble with real-life story arcs: the happiness is so rarely saved for the end.
Richard Glover
#62. That you don't know for sure it is a mistake. A lot of things are means to some other end. You have to know an awful lot before you can judge other people's actions with real understanding.
Marcus Aurelius
#63. Coming from the cotton plantation, the southern regions, I was brought up with real nice kids, mannered kids, who would go to church on Sunday.
Luther Allison
#64. And, well of course, Count Basie, and I think all of the black bands of the late thirties and early forties, bands with real players. They had an influence on everybody, not just drummers.
Buddy Rich
#65. Anything is easy to the man who sees ... The open eye of the open mind
that has more to do with real detective work than all the deduction and induction and analysis ever devised.
Samuel Hopkins Adams
#66. I have decided to fight for my country, because we have build a success story in Guanajuato, with real results and more yet to come in the next two years.
Vicente Fox
#67. Statistics show 50% of the people use the internet. The rest have sex with real people.
Jay Leno
#68. Our bodies don't know how to digest these 'food like' products resulting in stress and weight gain! Nourish your body with real foods and it will shine for you.
Jason Vale
#69. Vulnerability brings honesty. We become most honest with ourselves when we are faced with real fear around a situation or an outcome. Yet many still stay in their comfort zone, listening to their own excuses and lies.
Tony Curl
#70. Economics has become increasingly an arcane branch of mathematics rather than dealing with real economic problems.
Milton Friedman
#71. I think the idea, first and foremost, is to understand that people may label these characters as villains, but at the end of the day I have to fall in love with the characters that I play. For me, they have to be real characters with real objectives, and driving forces. So they're all different.
Edi Gathegi
#72. I can fill my cup up with real human interactions that allow me to be an actor. If I had no basis for relationships, as Kristen Bell, the human, I couldn't be an actress.
Kristen Bell
#73. I have always deeply desired to be an honest man who said it when I struggled, stumbled and worried. I longed to be a man with real friends - friends who knew me at my worst and loved me.
Matt Chandler
#74. All is not done when we have spoken to God by prayer; our petitions are to be pursued with real endeavours.
Benjamin Whichcote
#75. The trouble with real life is that you don't know whether you're the hero or just some nice chap who gets bumped off in chapter five to show what a rotter the villain is without anyone minding too much.
Sarah Caudwell
#76. It is easy to make stuff up - and easy to dig up information and repeat it or report it to others. But to find a real life story with real people in real life situations is quite difficult and time-consuming. Yet, the rewards are worth the effort.
Lee Gutkind
#77. I wanted to create a game (EarthBound) with real characters; characters whom players would recognize in the people around them.
Shigesato Itoi
#78. I knew from a very early age, that what I saw on tv had nothing to do with real life. So I wanted to make a record of real life. That included having a camera with me at all times.
Nan Goldin
#79. Most of our suffering comes from sin and stupidity; it is, nevertheless, very real, and growth can occur with real repentance. But the highest source of suffering appears to be reserved for the innocent who undergo divine tutorial training.
Neal A. Maxwell
#80. I love shooting with real things in the real world. I think it gives a level of drama, performance, and everything seems to rise to the occasion.
Tony Scott
#81. 'Dark Shadows' was the spark that lit the fire of my childhood imagination. It wasn't polished; it wasn't perfect. But it gave us characters with real personalities and complicated motivations.
William J. Mann
#82. I've written enough books with real celebrities, such as Walter Payton and Hank Aaron and Billy Graham, to know that fame looks good only to people who don't have it.
Jerry B. Jenkins
#83. If anybody is interested in listening to good modern music, I would recommend Jim Fassett, 'Symphony of the Birds.' It's really beautiful ... with real birds.
Gael Garcia Bernal
#84. Do not mix temporary difficulties with real problems.
Valentina
#85. A Bush Administration will, I believe, enjoy a better relationship with the new Congress, although President-elect Bush will be faced with real challenges in getting along with the Congress.
Richard V. Allen
#86. A humble person is more likely to be self confident ... a person with real humility knows how much they are loved.
Cornelius Plantinga
#87. Raising children with an emphasis on intrinsic rewards is not a technique, a method or a trick to get them to do what the parent wants them to by subtler means, but a way of life, a way of living with children with real respect for their intelligence and for their being.
Mamie Van Doren
#88. V-Day ... if you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for "your loved one" I think it's quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It's all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love.
Jess C. Scott
#89. I outline fairly extensively because I'm usually dealing with real events. I don't need to give myself as much information as I used to, but I still like to have two pages of outline for every projected 100 pages of manuscript.
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
#90. Everyday it gets easier to connect with an electronic device that it is to connect with real people.
Pablo
#91. We don't get contacts, we don't find contacts, we don't have contacts; we make connections with real people.
Michael Port
#92. Some parts of Florida are filled with real magic. You just have to keep your eyes open. Ah, for the mermaids of Weeki Wachee ... Follow me, this way. Everywhere
Neil Gaiman
#93. It's great to get out of the study and work with real living and breathing people.
Christopher Hampton
#94. Understanding replaces imaginary fears with real ones.
Mason Cooley
#95. Life is a complex
with real and imaginary parts
Angela Suba
#96. Only a loyal, determined struggle to destroy cultural aggression and bring out the truth, whatever it may be, is revolutionary and consonant with real progress; it is the only approach which opens on to the universal. Humanitarian declarations are not called for and add nothing to real progress.
Cheikh Anta Diop
#97. I shudder, I see the love, I'm doomed, my heart melts again - can't stand not to be in love, can't stand not to be melting with real tenderness, childlike need sweetnesses, that's what's wrong with me.
Allen Ginsberg
#98. Normal Christian life is a process of restoration and renewal. Our joy is not static. It fluctuates with real life. It is vulnerable to satan's attacks.
John Piper
#99. I do a lot of media work, I've been investing and I'm involved with real estate. It's totally different from what I had been doing but I find it challenging and fun. To be honest, I really don't miss the track. I pretty well accomplished what I set out to do and it was time to move on.
Donovan Bailey
#100. Remember the scene in Cat Ballou where a very drunk Lee Marvin goes from unconscious to ranting to triumphant to roaring to weeping defeat, and then finally passes out? One of the men watching him says, with real awe, "I never seen a man get through a day so fast." Don't let this be you.
Anne Lamott
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