Famous Quotes & Sayings

Craig Biggio

He's a little deceiving. He doesn't have a real good arm slot as far as trying to pick the ball up out of his hand. He made some pretty good pitches when he had to.

David Catania

If it wasn't a chaotic scene, if it was an orderly evacuation, we would be able to give you specifics about what our preferences would be, such as evacuating first the disabled, then the elderly and infants. That would of course be our preference. But the reality on the scene does not permit that. We're going to do the best we can with the resources we have.

David Cameron

It is national parliaments, which are, and will remain, the true source of real democratic legitimacy and accountability in the EU.

David Byrne

I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously.

David Byrne

A lot of cities are making a real effort, neighborhood by neighborhood, to make themselves into a place where life can be pretty good.

Dave Hickey

Choosing beauty over content (or choosing beauty as content) is always an act of sedition. If we accept the cant of official culture, we must believe that the beauty we steal from any man-made thing is stolen from its more virtuous and metaphysical backstory, wherein "real" beauty is said to reside.

Dave Hickey

Bad taste is real taste, of course, and good taste is the residue of someone else's privilege.

Dave McKean

Usually, the most difficult thing to do is photo-real stuff. Something that has to actually look like the real world, because it's just so difficult to do that. We're just so used to looking at the real world, our brains instantly see when something is not quite right.

Darren Johnson

If our core belief is based on what other people think, then we eventually will allow their opinions to become our reality.

Darrell Hammond

If I can get a sanitized version of reality, I'll take it.

Dario Fo

Real socialism is inside man. It wasn't born with Marx. It was in the communes of Italy in the Middle Ages. You can't say it is finished.

Dave Matthews

I'm not a real gadgety person. In fact, some people think that I'm kind of primitive.

Dave Matthews

Tomorrow is no place to place your better days.

Dave Matthews

South Africa gives me a perspective of what's real and what's not real. So I go back to South Africa to both lose myself and gain awareness of myself. Every time I go back, it doesn't take long for me to get caught into a very different thing. A very different sense of myself.

Dave Eggers

Why do you want to be on The Real World? -Because I want everyone to witness my youth Why? -Isn't it gorgeous?

David Lereah

I believe that in years to come, historians will see the beginning of the 21st century as the ‘golden age’ of real estate.

David Limbaugh

[W]hile people are making a big fuss over Gruber's calling Americans stupid, they ought to be far more outraged that he admitted the administration purposefully lied to us. This is the real story, and it reveals, once again, the character and mentality of this entire administration, for Gruber was speaking not merely for himself but about the entire administration, beginning with Obama.

David Lee Roth

On parties it's not about who you are. The real reason to which a party revolves is how good you look.

David Lee Roth

You've got to roll with the punches to get to what's real.

David Lee Roth

Maybe I'm like acts of Congress or your favorite Chinese restaurant - you don't really want to know what's going on behind the door. I'm a real study in contrast, I expect, looking from without. But it adds up to what you get on stage.

David Levithan

This is not something insignificant. This is real. This is happening, and this is ours.

David Levithan

If there wasn't a word for it, would we realize our masochism as much?

David Levithan

I am learning that a life isn't real unless someone else knows its reality. And I want my life to be real.

David Levithan

You can give words, but you can't take them. And when words are given, that is when they are shared. We remember what that was like. Words so real they were almost tangible. There are conversations you remember, for certain. But more than that, there is the sensation of conversation. You will remember that, even when the precise words begin to blur.

David Levithan

The important thing is for the characters to feel real, and to be given the humanity they are due. That granting of humanity is what separates a full portrait from a stereotype.

David Levithan

But I want to feel like life matters. I had something real with you, but then the realness scared me. I decided to go for other things instead.

David Levithan

Because what's the point of something virtual if it doesn't end up being real?

David Levithan

I wish I could remember the moment when I was a kid and I discovered that the letters linked into words, and that the words linked to real things. What a revelation that must have been. We don't have the words for it, since we hadn't yet learned the words. It must have been astonishing, to be given the key to the kingdom and see it turn in our hands so easily.

David Levithan

..I've been trying to argue myself into thinking these things don't matter, A. Really,I have. But I've lost the argument. And I can't keep having it, when I know what the real answer is.

David Gemmell

[...] In real war an officer may have only one chance at succeeding. Consider each problem.

David Berkowitz

Real-time marketing is already too late. Brands should focus on sparking conversation, not constantly reacting.

David Bohm

There is no reason why an extraphysical general principle is necessarily to be avoided, since such principles could conceivably serve as useful working hypotheses. For the history of scientific research is full of examples in which it was very fruitful indeed to assume that certain objects or elements might be real, long before any procedures were known which would permit them to be observed directly.

David Bohm

Then there is the further question of what is the relationship of thinking to reality. As careful attention shows, thought itself is in an actual process of movement.