Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paramahansa Yogananda

Truths are more than imagination; they are real. Yet their origin is a thought in the mind of God.

Owen Wilson

It's not enough just to be real; you have to try to make it interesting or entertaining.

Owen Wilson

I remember hearing a good story about Jack Nicholson working with Stanley Kubrick on The Shining [1980]. Nicholson was saying that, as an actor, you always want to try to make things real. And believable. When he was working with Kubrick, he finished a take and said, "I feel like that was real." And Kubrick said, "Yes, it's real, but it's not interesting".

Ovid

The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.

Ovid

Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name.

Oscar Hammerstein II

Why you were born and why you are living depend entirely on what you are getting out of this world and what you are giving to it. I cannot prove that this is a balance of mathematical perfection, but my own observation of life leads me to the conclusion that there is a very real friendship, both quantitatively and qualitatively, between what you contribute and what you get out of life.

P. C. Cast

Actually, the zapping light was kinda like Sookie’s fairy-light-thing. Do you think there’s any chance I’m a fairy?” “No, Z. Focus. True Blood is fiction. This is the real world.

P. C. Cast

As a successful romantic novelist - one of my publishers is Mills & Boon - I create the sort of male heroes that no woman could fail to adore and few real men could hope to emulate.

P. C. Cast

I think real forgiveness is a gift someone has to earn, and I don’t even have to worry about Kalona asking for my forgiveness unless he’s worthy of even considering it, and I just don’t see that happening.

Everything that exists is created first in the imagination, and secondly in reality, through activity.

Paul Martin

In Canada, women's rights are a vital part of our effort to build a society of real equality - not just for some, but for all Canadians. A society in which women no longer encounter discrimination nor are shut out from opportunities open to others

Paul McCartney

People think once you get famous and rich you move out of the public sphere and you have nothing left to write about. I've heard that - Bruce Springsteen was this real street boy, now he's got this big house. How does that compute? If you don't look at the material side of someone's life, if you look at more the emotional side, there's always a wealth of stuff to write about.

Patty Duke

Reality is hard. It is no walk in the park, this thing called life.

Patti Stanger

What I do know is that traditional gender roles are very real and flipping the norm is difficult for even the strongest, funniest, smartest men.

Patton Oswalt

If the victories we create in our heads were let loose on reality, the world we know would drown in blazing happiness.

Peter Garrett

That was the crossover line for us, to be able to play that many shows, sell them out real quick and have that tribe queue up outside and still be a mystery to everybody else.

Peter Greenaway

We don't need virtual reality, we need virtual unreality.

Peter Greenaway

Tulse Luper, who without too many confessions, in a sense, is a fictive version of me. I have to say he has far more exciting adventures, and certainly a lot of them sexual, than ever I've experienced. But in a sense, what you do with an alter ego, you give them all sorts of permissions and licences which you know you'll never be able to embrace in your real life.

Perry Como

In many ways, that affection is the real reward for 56 years in the business. Although the money ain't exactly bad either.

Pericles

To face calamity with a mind as unclouded as may be, and quickly to react against it-that in a city and in an individual-is real strength.

Pericles

We do not imitate, but are a model to others.

Pericles

As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

There is no real wealth but the labor of people. Were the mountains of gold and silver, the world would not be one grain of corn the richer; no one comfort would be added to the human race.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

There is no real wealth but the labor of man.

Paulina Porizkova

The real bummer of fame is that at some point you're bound to get demoted.

Pauley Perrette

I always tell myself that when you're playing a character, pretend they're on trial and you're giving the best witness of their life. You really need to think about every element of the character and represent them properly, as if they were a real person. You want to give 100 percent of what they're worth and what they deserve as people.

Pauline Kael

Reality, like God and History, tends to direct people to wherever they want to go.

Paul Valery

A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.

Paul Valery

My hand feels touched as well as it touches; reality says this, and nothing more.

Paul Valery

Interruption, incoherence, surprise are the ordinary conditions of our life. They have even become real needs for many people, whose minds are no longer fed by anything but sudden changes and constantly renewed stimuli. We can no longer bear anything that lasts. We no longer know how to make boredom bear fruit. So the whole question comes down to this: can the human mind master what the human mind has made?

Paul Valery

A real writer can be recognized by the fact he doesn't find words. Therefore he must search for them and while doing that, he finds better ones.

Paul Tagliabue

I'm not big into images. I'm into reality.

Paul Twitchell

Ron Hubbard was trying to get people out of their body with his HCA courses, but frankly, he was failing badly. When I was a staff member, occasions came up that I was asked to help some member of the graduating class to get a reality on out-of-body experiences...Hubbard would never acknowledge this ability of mine, and after leaving him I did a lot of experimenting.