You Realise Quotes

#1. It seemed to us that the fantastic can be, can do, so much more than its detractors assume: it can illuminate the real, it can distort it, it can mask it, it can hide it. It can show you the world you know in a way that makes you realise you've never looked at it, not looked at it.

Neil Gaiman

#2. The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance ... has helped to determine your path through life.

Rowan Atkinson

#3. When you're a child, it's easy to see school as the worst thing in the world. It's only later in life you realise what a wonderful time it was. Looking back, I can't believe I even wanted to leave.

Ian Beattie

#4. People think my life has been tough, but I think has been a wonderful journey. The older you get, the more you realise it's not what happens, but how you deal with it.

Tina Turner

#5. When you get to my age, and I'm 66 now, you realize that the world is a madhouse and that most people are operating in fantasy anyway. So once you realise that, it doesn't bother you much.

John Cleese

#6. Once you have done with school, you realise that it is just a smaller version of life, and really I have felt that I should have been an adult since I was aged about five.

Kristen Stewart

#7. As you get older you realise that nothing lasts forever. It's not depressing, but it does make moments more intense.

Victoria Legrand

#8. No two stories are the same. They may seem the same at first glance, but, once you take a closer look, give the story some of your time, you realise its unique qualities.

S.A. Tawks

#9. I always had long hair. When you lose it, you realise just how important it is to your identity.

Delta Goodrem

#10. Sometimes an opponent stops breathing, and you realise something drastic has happened and they are trying not to let on. Or they go quiet, or they get fidgety. After a while you pick these things up and become more alert to them.

Viswanathan Anand

#11. Never give up, Never Give In because you are stronger than you realise.

Emma Hewitt

#12. You can have anything you want so long as you realise that you can't have everything you want.

Orna Ross

#13. At the beginning, you are 20 and you can just imagine ... don't get me wrong, but having money. Then you realise that it's not only about you and what you are doing but that you have to give back.

Thierry Henry

#14. When you get to see the world, it changes you. You realise that there are all kinds of people out there.

Suraj Sharma

#15. Hold on to your dreams, Kiall. They are more important than you realise.

David Gemmell

#16. This great imperialistic world called the United States has made us believe that an Oscar is the most important thing in the world for an actor. But if you think about it for five minutes you realise it can't be.

Javier Bardem

#17. I keep asking myself why this happened," I told him softly. "How you and I could have possibly ended up here, together. I think I'm supposed to help you realise."
"Realise what?"
"The man you will be.

Charlotte McConaghy

#18. Do you realise what you've done?" he says.
"I believe I just succeeded in using magic to pass your gate," I say. "Doesn't that make me an animagus?

Rae Carson

#19. You realise Group Captain that this might be the most important weather forecast in history?

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#20. My main goal is to stay healthy because when you're injured you realise how lucky you are to have your health.

Maria Sharapova

#21. Nothing is more important than life. Nothing. You realise the simplicity of that point only when you confront death everyday.

Amish Tripathi

#22. It's difficult to know which second among a lifetime of seconds is more special. Often when you realise how precious those seconds are, it's too late for them to be captured because the moment has passed. We realise too late.

Cecelia Ahern

#23. Your future is always more valuable than today, the sooner you realise that the better

Steve Douglas

#24. What happens is once you start to understand football, you realise that it's not just about the physical side of the game and chasing after a ball. It's a strategic sport which requires a lot of intelligence. It's a very mental game.

Shakira

#25. Once you realise that heroes die, everything becomes that much more terrifying.

David Benioff

#26. I have a motto: it's never too late to give up. It's never too late to give up what you are doing, and start doing what you realise you love.

Hans Rosling

#27. You can do the same thing with $20 million that you would do with $50 million. So at a certain point in your life and in your career, you realise that it's not about the money.

Kevin Hart

#28. After working for TV, you realise that the majority of the population still wonders where their next meal is coming from.

Terence Lewis

#29. It's an amazing feeling to know that life is actually growing inside your body. The first time you see the ultrasound and you see the little bones and you realise that it's part of you and it's in your care is life changing and this sort of protective instinct has taken over.

Halle Berry

#30. Once you realise how great it is to love someone, and be loved equally or higher. Life will never be the same.

Sarvesh Jain

#31. I think you realise how terrifying and scary the world is when you're bringing kids into it.

Jamie Cullum

#32. [About being a teenager] Like, at first it's fine and you think you have a dark side - it's exciting - and then you realise the dark side wins every time.

Lana Del Rey

#33. Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realise you're not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully.

Fay Weldon

#34. It's incredible, ridiculous really, isn't it? You realise you can make more money on the golf tour in one week than some people make in a lifetime.

Rory McIlroy

#35. I like singer-songwriters, and I find sad songs comforting rather than depressing. It makes you realise you're not alone in the world.

Natalie Imbruglia

#36. But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.

Adam Duritz

#37. In old age, you realise that while you're divided from your youth by decades, you can close your eyes and summon it at will. As a writer it puts one at a distinct advantage.

Penelope Lively

#38. There is no mind to control if you realise the self. The mind having vanished, the self shines forth. In the realised man, the mind may be active or inactive, the self remains for him.

Ramana Maharshi

#39. Emotions don't arrive intact. Shards injure you incrementally, so small at first you don't notice them. Over time, the damage builds and one day you realise the nicks and cuts have become gaping wounds. Worse still, they've become the very thing that defines you.

Nigel Jay Cooper

#40. Sometimes you look back at girls you spent money on rather than send it to your mum & you realise witchcraft is real

Robert Mugabe

#41. You've just got to get over that mental hurdle and those battles in your own head during matches when things aren't going so well. It takes time. It's probably all things I already knew, but for someone to talk about it maybe in a different way makes you realise things.

Samantha Stosur

#42. When one is young, aspiring to play for the country, doing well, any hindrance, like injury or being out of form, can be frustrating and a cause of annoyance or even anger. But once you have a close encounter with death, you realise the real value of life.

Yuvraj Singh

#43. Do you realise that people die of boredom in London suburbs? It's the second biggest cause of death amongs the English in general. Sheer boredom ...

Alexander McCall Smith

#44. Most of the fears in life are only the scarecrows; once you realise this, the field is all yours to benefit from!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#45. People look at Marvel movies as epic in scope, but if you look back at the comics, you realise that Marvel heroes were often a reaction to the square-jawed DC characters like Superman, who were flawless and beyond reproach.

Jon Favreau

#46. Do you realise how much trouble you're in?"
"Perhaps I'll have some Weetabix after all.

Anthony Horowitz

#47. Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.

Ian Hacking

#48. I do think that when you get older, you kind of learn not to judge because you realise that no one's perfect, and we're all fighting our own private demons.

Rebecca Ferguson

#49. When you immerse yourself in medicine you realise that hope is not absolute. It's not that simple.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#50. When someone takes away your pens you realise quite how important education is.

Malala Yousafzai

#51. Live television is always stressful and the more you do it, the more you realise what can go wrong.

Alan Hansen

#52. John Cage made you realise that there wasn't a thing called noise, it was just music you hadn't appreciated.

Brian Eno

#53. As you get older, you realise your parents aren't these superheroes. They're actually people.

Rumer Willis

#54. Financial security is crucial for your family, and I have a large family. Money does matter when you don't have it. When you need it, you realise the value of it. In that sense, money will always have value.

Katrina Kaif

#55. You become free like you always dreamed, yet you realise that every land is different and you do not belong anywhere yet you live everywhere and that we all share the same lands except you seem to be the only one who realises this fact

Yolanda De Iuliis

#56. Being alone on the moors is scary; as the rain clouds settle in, it makes you realise your place in nature.

Dave Davies

#57. It's not when you realise that nothing can help you - religion, pride, anything - it's when you realise that you don't need any aid.

William Faulkner

#58. The biographies are very enlightening because you realise, Oh my God, all these people I've admired - and tried to emulate even - when I was younger died tragically from substance abuse.

Eva Mendes

#59. Once you realise you're never going to be a somebody, you have to kid yourself that being a nobody can still be interesting.

Ian Pattison

#60. How can you talk about power to the people unless you realise the people is both sexes.

John Lennon

#61. He grinned. "You realise I'm reporting for duty on the second of January?"
"Good. Then the last memory you'll have of me is wearing a party frock and knocking back cocktails while I kick old 1914 right in the teeth. Let's send it off in style.
(Delilah and Johnny)

Deanna Raybourn

#62. The more you travel the more you realise that you must travel even more!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#63. Youth wasn't like the skin of a snake that you sloughed off and never saw again but rather a feeling that you tuck away because you think you don't need it any more and it's only when you come across it by accident that you realise just how much fun it really is

Mike Gayle

#64. You realise good girls don't really go to heave, right?

Stephanie Tromly

#65. And only when that happens do you realise just how much silence there really is. Silence between lovers, when something really needs to be said; silence from a parent when a child needs some word more than anything else in the world; silences and in betweens and everything which isn't an answer.

Michael Marshall Smith

#66. The moment when you realise that you are stupid, you catch your best chance to be clever!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#67. The closer you are to people, the more you realise what has happened to them.

Jennifer Lynch

#68. After a long time with someone, you realise you've been thinking for two.

Kristin Scott Thomas

#69. I said (to Daniel Jones), 'You realise I'm always going to be The Guy From Savage Garden'. He said, 'How do you think I feel? I'm The Other One From Savage Garden!'

Darren Hayes

#70. I was merely going to say that I hope you realise that guilt is a poor foundation for a life, without other motivations beside it.

Laurie R. King

#71. Whenever you get to win, you feel the satisfaction of all of your hard work, all the sacrifices, all the blood, sweat and tears. It feels right and makes you realise that you are really doing the right thing.

Abby Wambach

#72. You can keep up that crap for years. But it finally catches up with you. And then you realise all you've done is save your shit to drown in.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#73. There have been setbacks, illnesses and other obstacles, so inevitably I've had disappointments. But once you realise that things can't always go your own way, you're on the right track to being able to handle your own life.

Diana Quick

#74. The more you look at 'common knowledge', the more you realise that it is more likely to be common than it is to be knowledge.
No real knowledge is common.

Idries Shah

#75. When you have been in TV and performing for as long as I have, you realise that you probably entertain in your sleep too ... as for my catch phrase, I didn't actually say so much 'Can you see what it is yet?

Rolf Harris

#76. You realise the responsibility of carrying a film on your shoulders when people are investing money in you and they recognise the hard work you have to put in.

Vir Das

#77. I thought I could rely on the plot in the novel and fill in the colour between the lines, but I made a mistake with that assumption. It was really, really hard because you pull a few things apart and then you realise how everything relies on everything else and it can all fall apart.

Ben Affleck

#78. When you see something special, something inspired, you realise the debt we owe great curators and their unforgettable shows - literally unforgettable because you remember every picture, every wall and every juxtaposition.

Charles Saatchi

#79. I'm really a pussycat and this [bad-boy] image has been totally overblown for 30 years. Sure, I used to rumble a little but I don't do that stuff anymore. I'm an old man now. When you reach your 50s, you realise that if you don't mellow, you won't last.

George C. Scott

#80. It makes you realise that people are the same wherever you go.

Nicholas Lea

#81. It comes to us all. The moment when you realise that nothing but love will do.

Tania Kindersley

#82. When you realise you are just as ridiculous & just as #special as everyone else, you love them all.

Jay Woodman

#83. There is nothing simple or dull in achieving the transparent page. Vulgar ostentation is twice as easy as discipline. When you realise that ugly typography never effaces itself, you will be able to capture beauty as the wise men capture happiness by aiming at something else.

Beatrice Warde

#84. The more you learn, I think the more you realise who you are and what you want and what you believe and what you want to be and where you want to end up.

Kate Nash

#85. One day you look out and the audience consists of 65,000 people. It's like looking in the mirror and one day you realise you've gone grey.

Patrick Carney

#86. You spend so much of your life basing yourself on what you think other people think of you. Then you realise that maybe one of the purposes of life is not to care.

Dustin Hoffman

#87. Don't let life pass you by before you realise that it was worth living.

Hillary Clinton

#88. I'm a spy, Cam. I was born to do this- to be this. It's in my blood. And I will do it until the day I die. It's who I am ... The thing is I don't think you realise is ... it's who you are too.

Ally Carter

#89. Because you don't get to choose your parents, , and at some point you realise that maybe your parents just aren't able to parent very well, but we exist, and the only choice we've got in the whole situation is whether we're gonna love them anyway. It's as simple and messy and complicated as that

Megan Jacobson

#90. Whatever is needed for you and your body will be taken care of, when you know this the lack will disappear from your life. When you realise ISHA permeates your everything you relax and are at ease - that is when things happen.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#91. Life is indeed a gamble, the ultimate game of chance, based purely upon having the ability to make the right choices at the right time. You never win or lose in life if you realise it is all just for the experience. Learn to create your own destiny, don't wait to see what fate throws your way.

Steven Redhead

#92. If you don't fully take every moment and love every moment and every person that you're with, your life will be over before you realise.

Jessica Chastain

#93. A mother has two hands but performs jobs of many arms. You will never be able to do the impossible until you realise what your mother did.

Gloria D. Gonsalves

#94. Purpose will make you realise the reason of your existence, it will restore your mind sight, you will start to dream and you will see visions. Your dreams will lead you to set goals, goals will lead you to mission accomplishments and vision will take you to the higher places.

Euginia Herlihy

#95. Some say that you know real love when you realise the only person in the world who can console you is the one who has hurt you.

Guillaume Musso

#96. He's been to the brink and come back. I guess when you lose your pride, even for just a moment, you realise how much it means to you.

Markus Zusak

#97. By handling each sentimental item and deciding what to discard, you process your past. If you just stow these things away in a drawer or cardboard box, before you realise it, your past will become a weight that holds you back and keeps you from living in the here and now. Pg.116-117

Marie Kondo

#98. I'm good at thinking outside the box, so much that you realise it's not a box to begin with.

Will.i.am

#99. Do you realise that Eve was the only woman who ever took a man's side?

Milton Berle

#100. I've done so much travelling in the past few years, and when you travel, you realise that we do actually have a cool, clean look in Scandinavia - it's not just Denmark - which I think brings peace if you have it in your home.

Birgitte Hjort Sorensen