Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
There should be in eloquence that which is pleasing and that which is real; but that which is pleasing should itself be real.
It's tough to be an actor and it's tough to portray a real person, and it's tough to play two people adding up to one person.
The music business is really, really small. The real music is becoming almost extinct, if you don't stay true to who you are.
Real life security and contentment come not from putting a gun in the cupboard, but from taking a role in the world's future.
There are real threats but there's a difference between recognizing real threats and an irrational kind of apocalyptic threat.
No girl who is well bred, 'kind, and modest, is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want of manners, or of heart.
I assume then, that you have no real faith in the fondness any of the rest of us may feel for you?''None,' said Mrs. Halloran.
Seniors love getting junk mail. It's sometimes their only way of communicating or feeling like they're part of the real world.
In my imagination yes, I remember, when I was six years old, I was conducting all this concert in my house. But now it's real.
Be brave, be bold and above all be honest, some people will hate you and some will love you but they will all see the real you
You can't be real," Delilah murmurs. "Says who?" I ask. "Did you really think that a story exists only when you're reading it?
Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.
What the world needs are servants, not leaders. Everyone's wish is to become a leader....Let us become a real servant instead.
I wouldn't say you have an online life and a real life. I think technology is just mapping and organizing what already exists.
That to me is what my idea of film acting should be. There shouldn't be any acting. You should just be watching a real person.
You have got to attract the brightest and the best, but the brightest and best won't stay unless they see real career options.
I just think [Gangster Party Line] is funny and stupid and all the dudes in it are real dudes. It's just a funny construction.
Marketing is essentially about feeding the poop back to diners fast enough to make them think they're still getting real food.
Nobody with any real sense of humor *can* write a love story. . . . Shakespeare is the exception that proves the rule. (90-91)
The sorcerer is a Simple Realist: the world is real--but then so must consciousness be real since its effects are so tangible.
History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
I tend to wait for true stories to mature into fiction. Most of my fiction grew out of a long-germinating real-life situation.
The real opportunity is to harness the inventive power of the world to locally design and produce solutions to local problems.
To love my neighbor is to assist the arising and unfolding in him of that which can harmonize the real elements of his nature.
Choices are much more practical and small when you're dealing with a real story. It's about execution, it's not about content.
Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist.
The real freedom comes to us when we can learn to go inside and connect with that voice. Then, we're not relying on outsiders.
Some people say I'm obnoxious and lazy, that I'm uneducated, that my opinion means nothing, but I know I'm a real good dancer.
"Entourage" is a staple LA-based show and people say it's pretty real and I thought it was. It's an exaggeration of the truth.
I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real.
I like to test myself and see where I am and how I am against other people in this sport. I think that's the real draw for me.
The real lesson Orville (Redenbacher) taught me was the power of a good brand to trump all rhyme or reason in the marketplace.
The real technology -behind all our other technologies- is language. It actually creates the world our consciousness lives in.
I love escaping into character. It's a chance to try on people that you wouldn't be brave or stupid enough to be in real life.
Academic Marxism is a fantasy world, and unctuous compassion-sweepstakes, into which real workers or peasants never penetrate.
We imagine that waking-life is real and that dream-life is unreal, but there does not seem to be any evidence for this belief.
I don't think I knew any of my father's friends - male friends - by their real names. I remember them only by their nicknames.
People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It's almost maddening
If we ever meet in real life, we can have a conversation. But you should go and live your real life and I'll go and live mine.
I think that Stevie Nicks is one of the greats. Steve Nicks and Grace Slick and Janis Joplin have the real rock voices, to me.
As for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what only one sees we call a dream.
The press and the public like certainty and affirmation of popular biases. But real science thrives on the capacity for doubt.
After I won the title, I was confronted with the real world. People do not behave naturally anymore - hypocrisy is everywhere.
Municipal debt outstanding doubled in the past 10 years. And in the past 30 years, the U.S. has been in real economic nirvana.
I grew up like a lot of country boys and girls do - amongst the pine trees, dirt roads, farms, mules and people who were real.
Every experience proves that the real problem of our existence lies in the fact that we ought to love one another, but do not.
What I've learned is that real change is very, very hard. But I've also learned that change is possible - if you fight for it.
The real fear isn't rejection, but that there won't be enough time in your life to write all the stories that you have in you.
When love's the culmination of everything you feel, then it's the only thing that's precious, it's the only thing that's real.
On the whole, I haven't found men unduly loath to say, 'I love you.' The real trick is to get them to say, 'Will you marry me?