Famous Quotes & Sayings

H. P. Lovecraft

No one ever wrote a story yet without some real emotional drive behind it--and I have not that drive except where violations of the natural order ... defiances and evasions of time, space, and cosmic law ... are concerned.

Grant Morrison

I guess my inspiration is this - I like to pretend that every story that ever happened to 'Batman' was real and is part of this one guy's life.

Grant Morrison

I’m a false icon! The media collaborate in promoting my superficial lifestyle as somehow more valid, more worthy of attention than your real lives! - Gideon Stargrave

Friedrich Nietzsche

He who climbeth on the highest mountains, laugheth at all tragic plays and tragic realities.

Jerry B. Jenkins

When you come to Christ as a real young person, I think when you become a teen-ager either you rebel or you search, doubt, and wonder.

Jerry B. Jenkins

The uninitiated have real questions and valid concerns over how the things of God appear to them.

Jerry Bridges

Which of us, then, does not offend frequently with our tongue? The real problem, however, is not our tongues but our hearts.

Lewis Mumford

The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion.

Abdolkarim Soroush

A realistic view of humanity will stop the proliferation of impossible injunctions.

Yigal Azrouel

I started out making personal pieces, and realized that I actually like designing. I am self-taught, so I had a lot to learn technically.

David Foster Wallace

The capital-T Truth is about life BEFORE death. It is about the real value of a real education, which has almost nothing to do with knowledge, and everything to do with simple awareness; awareness of what is so real and essential, so hidden in plain sight all around us, all the time, that we have to keep reminding ourselves over and over: "This is water." "This is water." It is unimaginably hard to do this, to stay conscious and alive in the adult world day in and day out.

Melissa McCarthy

I have an overactive sense of justice. I want women to realize you don't have to work for the company. You can run the company. I want the scope for them to be endless.

Aberjhani

Within the universe of the extraordinary, those qualities we designate to human concepts of gender are often shared, exchanged, or even completely obliterated. Because of this mixture of traits, these twins called Genius and Madness often appear to be the same thing. They both have a tendency to blur the lines of what we call norms, or established reality. They both, when we study that grand tapestry known as history and modern-day society, tend to stand out in much bolder relief than other figures. -- from Dancing with Madness, Dancing with Genius

A. S. Byatt

One of the reasons I've gotten so attached to talking to scientists is that... they know there is a reality.

Adrienne Rich

The impulse to create begins - often terribly and fearfully - in a tunnel of silence. Every real poem is the breaking of an existing silence, and the first question we might ask any poem is, What kind of voice is breaking silence, and what kind of silence is being broken?

Adam Young

Reality is a lovely place, but I wouldn't want to live there.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.

Ludwig von Mises

Anarchism misunderstands the real nature of man. It would be practicable only in a world of angels and saints

James A. Baldwin

Color is not a human or a personal reality it is a political reality.

Elton Brand

We wanted to go undefeated, but it's not realistic to win every game,

Marya Hornbacher

But new love only lasts so long, and then you crash back into the real people you are, and from as high as we were, it's a very long fall, and we hit the ground with a thud.

Dale Spender

men have their cake and get to eat it too, for while they decree themselves as representative of humanity, women who argue that men are not, are simply showing how little they know! And when men's standards are defined as human standards, then women who assert that women are different, demonstrate how 'inhuman' they are. It is a real 'Catch 22.

Dalia Mogahed

[Ted] Cruz is not at all popular in the Senate. Republicans say he may be too disliked to be a nominee. And there is a real concern about that. I think the one way to go after Trump maybe is go after him as a closet Democrat. That he has supported Democrats in the past.

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.